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Their board includes:  
 
Their board includes:  
:[[Jeremy Oppenheim]], [[Ashoka]], [[McKinsey]], [[Sourcewatch:World Bank|World Bank]]
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*[[Jeremy Oppenheim]], [[Ashoka]], [[McKinsey]], [[Sourcewatch:World Bank|World Bank]]
:[[Christopher Smallwood]]: Constitution Unit, Economic Adviser to the Treasury 1976-81, formerly BP, TSB, Economics Editor Sunday Times, formerly [[Brunswick Group]] now Barclays and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.  
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*[[Christopher Smallwood]]: Constitution Unit, Economic Adviser to the Treasury 1976-81, formerly [[BP]], TSB, Economics Editor Sunday Times, formerly [[Brunswick Group]] now Barclays and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.  
:[[Kate Kirkland]]: Oxfam, SSE and Family Welfare Association.  
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*[[Kate Kirkland]]: Oxfam, SSE and Family Welfare Association.  
:[[Andrew Mawson]]:CAN.  
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*[[Andrew Mawson]]:[[CAN]].  
  
UnLtd wanted to turn itself into a bank (also the ambition of CAN) and lend the money rather than give it away. (2) Now run by [[John Rafferty]], once 'Tony Blair's most trusted ally in Scotland', who was briefly a spin doctor to the late Donald Dewar. Rafferty ran Labour's campaign in Scotland with no reference to the Scottish party and he was tipped to be Dewar's chief of staff. (3) After being 'controversially dismissed', he was 'pulled in' from TimeBank (also in the Mezzanine) as UnLtd's chief executive. Rafferty was head of the National Lottery Charities Board in Scotland (UnLtd's money comes from the Lottery via the Millennium Commission).(4)  
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UnLtd wanted to turn itself into a bank (also the ambition of [[CAN]]) and lend the money rather than give it away. (2) Now run by [[John Rafferty]], once 'Tony Blair's most trusted ally in Scotland', who was briefly a spin doctor to the late [[Donald Dewar]]. Rafferty ran Labour's campaign in Scotland with no reference to the Scottish party and he was tipped to be Dewar's chief of staff. (3) After being 'controversially dismissed', he was 'pulled in' from [[TimeBank]] (also in the Mezzanine) as UnLtd's chief executive. Rafferty was head of the National Lottery Charities Board in Scotland (UnLtd's money comes from the Lottery via the Millennium Commission).(4)  
 
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Revision as of 11:48, 7 December 2005

Brings together: Ashoka, CAN, the Scarman Trust, SSE, Senscot, the Scottish network for social entrepreneurs and Comic Relief. It was given a £100m endowment to fund pet projects and aid in the privatising of public services. (1)

Their board includes:

UnLtd wanted to turn itself into a bank (also the ambition of CAN) and lend the money rather than give it away. (2) Now run by John Rafferty, once 'Tony Blair's most trusted ally in Scotland', who was briefly a spin doctor to the late Donald Dewar. Rafferty ran Labour's campaign in Scotland with no reference to the Scottish party and he was tipped to be Dewar's chief of staff. (3) After being 'controversially dismissed', he was 'pulled in' from TimeBank (also in the Mezzanine) as UnLtd's chief executive. Rafferty was head of the National Lottery Charities Board in Scotland (UnLtd's money comes from the Lottery via the Millennium Commission).(4) notes


1. http://www.enterprising-communities.org.uk/members.shtml#biog1

2. http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/unltd.html

3. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/20-5-1999-23-41-15.html

4. http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/unltd.html