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| − | Brings together: [[Ashoka]], [[CAN]], the [[Scarman Trust]], [[SSE]], [[Senscot]], the [[Scottish network for social entrepreneurs]] and Comic Relief. It was given a | + | Brings together: [[Ashoka]], [[CAN]], the [[Scarman Trust]], [[SSE]], [[Senscot]], the [[Scottish network for social entrepreneurs]] and Comic Relief. It was given a endowment to fund pet projects and aid in the privatising of public services. {{ref|enterprising}} |
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*[[Andrew Mawson]]:[[CAN]]. | *[[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. | + | UnLtd wanted to turn itself into a bank (also the ambition of [[CAN]]) and lend the money rather than give it away.{ref|Newstart}} Now run by [[John Rafferty]], once 'Tony Blair's most trusted ally in Scotland', who was briefly Chief of Staff and a Special Adviser 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.{{ref|Herald}} 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).{{ref|Newstart2}} |
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| − | + | {{note|enterprising}} http://www.enterprising-communities.org.uk/members.shtml#biog1 | |
| − | + | {{note|Newstart}} http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/unltd.html | |
| − | + | {{note|Herald}} http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/20-5-1999-23-41-15.html | |
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| + | {{note|Newstart2}} http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/unltd.html | ||
Revision as of 12:45, 18 February 2006
Brings together: Ashoka, CAN, the Scarman Trust, SSE, Senscot, the Scottish network for social entrepreneurs[1]
Their board includes:
- Jeremy Oppenheim, Ashoka, McKinsey, 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.
- Kate Kirkland: Oxfam, SSE and Family Welfare Association.
- 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.{ref|Newstart}} Now run by John Rafferty, once 'Tony Blair's most trusted ally in Scotland', who was briefly Chief of Staff and a Special Adviser 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.[2] 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).[3]
Notes
^ http://www.enterprising-communities.org.uk/members.shtml#biog1
^ http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/unltd.html
^ http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/20-5-1999-23-41-15.html
