Connect Public Affairs Ltd
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Connect Public Affairs is a Westminster-based lobbying firm in the UK.
Contents
- 1 People
- 2 Clients
- 3 Contacts
- 4 Resources
- 5 References
People
- Gill Morris, chief executive. Morris is the former Chair of the Association of Professional Political Consultants and as of February 2009 its Deputy Chair.
- Sarah King, director. In charge of handling Connect's day to day operations with Laura Blake[1]
- Laura Blake, director. In charge of handling Connect's day to day operations with Sarah King[1]
- Andrew Gairdner, chairman
- Michael Burrell, non-executive director
- Sebastian Church, non-executive director
- Helen Johnson, non-executive director
- Charles Pitt, account director. A former research assistant at the House of Commons between 2005 and 2011.[2]
- Steve Barwick, senior policy consultant. Formerly an adviser on policy and media to Rt Hon Margaret Beckett, media relations officer to Dawn Primarolo MP and a researcher for Alice Mahon MP.[3]
- James Noble, events and conferences consultant. Former press and policy officer to Richard Baker MSP, research assistant to Anne Begg MP, senior researcher to Lewis Macdonald MSP and conference officer for the Labour Party.[4]
- Fiona Gardner, events and conferences consultant
- David Button, account manager
- James Moseley, account manager
- George Robinson, account executive. Former parliamentary caseworker to Michael Ellis MP, weekend duty press officer for the Conservative Party and parliamentary adviser at Policy Research Unit.[5]
- Chris Russell, political consultant
- Melanie Pope, graduate trainee
- Leonie Blakeway, graduate trainee
- Lora Burt, company secretary and in-house designer[6]
Former staff
- Matt Palutikof, account executive (2013-2014). Former intern at the U.S. House of Representatives and the Conservative Party. Is now the director of communications of Primal Health Tennis Academy[7]
APPC UK
September 2014-November 2014
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | Leonie Blakeway | Michael Burrell | David Button | Fiona Gardner | Caroline Gordon | Lucy Holbrook | Helen Johnson | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | James Noble | Matthew Palutikof | Charles Pitt | Melanie Pope | George Robinson | Chris Russell | Will Sexton[8]
June 2014-August 2014
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | Leonie Blakeway | Michael Burrell | David Button | Tom Denney | Fiona Gardner | Caroline Gordon | Lucy Holbrook | Olivia Hows | Helen Johnson | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | Kiran Nagendran | James Noble | Matthew Palutikof | Melanie Pope | George Robinson | Chris Russell | Will Sexton | Emily Wallace[9]
March 2014-May 2014
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | David Button | Tom Denney | Fiona Gardner | Lucy Holbrook | Olivia Hows | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | Kiran Nagendran | Matthew Palutikof | Chris Russell | Andrew Smith | Emily Wallace[10]
December 2013-February 2014
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | David Button | Maurice Cousins | Tom Denney | Fiona Gardner | Lucy Holbrook | Olivia Hows | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | Kiran Nagendran | Matthew Palutikof | Chris Russell | Andrew Smith | Emily Wallace[11]
September 2013-November 2013
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | David Button | Maurice Cousins | Tom Denney | Mark Engel | Fiona Gardner | Lucy Holbrook | Olivia Hows | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | Kiran Nagendran | Matthew Palutikof | Andrew Smith | Emily Wallace[12]
June 2013-August 2013
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | David Button | Maurice Cousins | Tom Denney | Mark Engel | Fiona Gardner | Rebecca Godfrey | Lucy Holbrook | Olivia Hows | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | Kiran Nagendran | Matthew Palutikof | Andrew Smith | Emily Wallace | Sophie Wedderkopp[13]
March 2013-May 2013
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | David Button | Tom Denney | Mark Engel | Fiona Gardner | Rebecca Godfrey | Lucy Holbrook | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | Andrew Smith | Adam Thomas | Emily Wallace | Sophie Wedderkopp | Victoria Wilson | Ben Wright[14]
December 2012-February 2013
Steven Barwick | Laura Blake | David Button | Tom Denney | Mark Engel | Fiona Gardner | Rebecca Godfrey | Lucy Holbrook | Sarah King | Gill Morris | James Moseley | Andrew Smith | Adam Thomas | Emily Wallace | Sophie Wedderkopp | Victoria Wilson | Ben Wright[15]
Clients
Registrar of consultant lobbyists
Connect Communications has been registered since January 2016. The register documents clients on behalf of whom Connect has lobbied government ministers, and the firms 2015 listings are as follows:
July - September 2015
ARC (Association of Revenue and Customs) | British Gas | Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership | Pimlico Plumbers | Passenger Transport Executive Group | Sustainable Aviation
October - December 2015
All Party Parliamentary Group on Water | One Housing Group | Passenger Transport Executive Group - pteg | Pimlico Plumbers | Researchers in Schools | Sustainable Aviation | UNISON[16]
APPC lobbying register
September 2014-November 2014
A4e | Affinity Water | All Party Parliamentary Apprenticeship Group | All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group | All Party Water Group | Bellway Essex | Bode (Leopard Guernsey Archway Ltd) | Capgemini | City and Suburban | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA) | College of Occupational Therapists | Essential Living | FDA Union | Hair Council | Later Life Ambitions Coalition | Local Government Information Unit | Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) | Luton Borough Council | Managers in Partnership | Mexichem Fluor | Moat | National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign and EBR | Network Housing Group | NHS England, Local Area Team, Cumbria and Lanchashire | One Housing Group | Pimlico Plumbers | Power 2020 | Prologispteg | Riverside | Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | Society of Radiographers | Sovereign Housing | Stoll | Tango LLP (Prologis and Whittington Investments) | The European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS) | The Housing Fringe | The Policing Fringe | UNISON | Wessex Water | Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire All Party Parliamentary Group[8]
June 2014-August 2014
A4e | Affinity Water | All Party Parliamentary Apprenticeship Group | All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group | All Party Water Group | Bellway Essex | Bode (Leopard Guernsey Archway Ltd) | British Heart Foundation | Capgemini | City and Suburban | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA)| College of Occupational Therapists | End Fuel Poverty Coalition | Essential Living | FDA Union | Gentoo Group | Hairdressing Council | KBR UK | Later Life Ambitions Coalition | Local Government Information Unit | Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) | Managers in Partnership | Mazars | Mexichem Fluor | Moat | National Association of Local Councils (NALC) | National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign | Network Housing Group | One Housing Group | Pimlico Plumbers | Police Federation | Prologis | pteg | Riverside | Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | Sovereign Housing | StepChange Debt Charity | Tango LLP (Prologis and Whittington Investments) | The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) | The European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS) | TUC | UNISON | Wessex Water | Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire All Party Parliamentary Group[9]
March 2014-May 2014
A4e | All Party Parliamentary Apprenticeship Group (funded by EAL) | All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group - (funded by: British Youth Council, YMCA, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services - NCVYS) | [[All Party Water Group - (funded by: Coca Cola Enterprises, Costain Group PLC, Gemserv, Affinity Water, Anglian Water, i2O Water, Northumbrian Water, Plastic Pipes Group, Society of British Water and Wastewater Industries, South East Water, Southern Water Services, UNISON, United Utilities Plc, Water UK, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water) | Ashford Developments | Bellway Essex | Bode (Leopard Guernsey Archway Ltd) | British Heart Foundation | Capgemini | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA) | College of Occupational Therapists | End Fuel Poverty Coalition | Essential Living | FDA Union | Gentoo Group | KBR UK | Local Government Information Unit | Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) | Managers in Partnership | Mazars | Mexichem Fluor | Moat | Mountpark Properties | National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign | NET (Nuclear Education Trust) | Network Housing Group | One Housing Group | Pimlico Plumbers | Police Federation | Prologis | pteg | Riverside | Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | South East Water | StepChange Debt Charity | Tango LLP (Prologis and Whittington Investments) | The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) | The European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS) | TUC | UNISON | Wessex Water | Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire All Party Parliamentary Group - (funded by Local Government Yorkshire and Humber)[10]
December 2013-February 2014
A4e | AAT | All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group - (funded by: British Youth Council, YMCA, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services - NCVYS) | All Party Water Group - (funded by: Gemserv, Affinity Water, Anglian Water, i2O Water, Northumbrian Water, Plastic Pipes Group, Society of British Water and Wastewater Industries, South East Water, Southern Water Services, UNISON, United Utilities Plc, Water UK, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water) | BALPA | Bellway Essex | Boehringer Ingleheim | [[British Association of Occupational Therapists and College of Occupational Therapists]] | British Heart Foundation | Broadland Housing Association | BSIA | Capgemini | Chesterhouse Properties Ltd | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA) | EAL | EFPC | Essential Living | FDA | Gentoo | Hertford Regional College | Local Government Information Unit | Local Government Yorkshire and Humber - (Yorkshire andNorthern Lincolnshire All Party Parliamentary Group) | London Stansted Corridor Consortium - funded by: London Borough of Haringey | Managers in Partnership | Mexichem Fluor | MOAT | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign | NET (Nuclear Education Trust) | Network Housing Group | One Housing | Pimlico Plumbers | Prologis | Pteg | Riverside | Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | StepChange | Tango LLP | TEAS | TUC | Tunstall | UNISON | Wessex Water[11]
September 2013-November 2013
A4e | AAT | Affinity Water All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group - (funded by: British Youth Council, YMCA, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services - NCVYS) | All Party Water Group - (funded by: Gemserv, Affinity Water, Anglian Water, i2O Water, Mouchel, Northumbrian Water, Plastic Pipes Group, Society of British Water and Wastewater Industries, South East Water, Southern Water Services, UNISON, United Utilities Plc, Water UK, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water) | Ashford Developments | BALPA | Bellway Essex | Boehringer Ingleheim | British Association of Occupational Therapists and College of Occupational Therapists | BSIA | Chesterhouse Properties Ltd | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA) | Eaga Charitable Trust - events | EAL | EFPC | Essential Living | FDA | Gentoo - events | Hertford Regional College | Local Government Information Unit | Local Government Yorkshire and Humber - (Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire All Party Parliamentary Group) | London Stansted Corridor Consortium - funded by: London Borough of Haringey | Managers in Partnership | Mexichem Fluor | MOAT | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign - (event supported by RWE Npower) | NET (Nuclear Education Trust) | One Housing | Prologis | Pteg | Riverside Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | StepChange | Tango LLP | TEAS | The Housing Fringe - funded by: MOAT, Gentoo, Mears, One Housing Group, The Hyde Group, 24 Housing | Trade Union fringe - funded by: BALPA, FDA, Prospect Tunstall | UNISON | Wessex Water[12]
June 2013-August 2013
A4e | AAT | Affinity Water All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group - (funded by: British Youth Council, YMCA, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services - NCVYS) | All Party Water Group - (funded by: Gemserv, Affinity Water, Anglian Water, i2O Water, Mouchel, Northumbrian Water, Plastic Pipes Group, Society of British Water and Wastewater Industries, South East Water, Southern Water Services, UNISON, United Utilities Plc, Water UK, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water) | ARC | Ashford Developments | BALPA | Bellway Essex | British Association of Occupational Therapists and College ofOccupational Therapists | BSIA | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA) | Eaga Charitable Trust - events | EAL | Essential Living | FDA | Gentoo - events | Geoffrey Osborne Ltd | Hertford Regional College | How2 | Local Government Information Unit | Local Government Yorkshire and Humber - (Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire All Party Parliamentary Group) | London Stansted Corridor Consortium - funded by: London Borough of Haringey | Managers in Partnership | Mexichem Fluor | MOAT | National Association of Local Councils | National Association of Local Councils (NALC) | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign - (event supported by RWE Npower) | NET (Nuclear Education Trust) | One Housing | Prologis | Pteg | Reed - events | Riverside | Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | StepChange | Tango LLP | The Housing Fringe - funded by: MOAT, Gentoo, Mears, One Housing Group, The Hyde Group, 24 Housing | Ticketmaster | Ticketmaster | Trade Union fringe - funded by: BALPA, FDA, Prospect Tunstall | UNISON | Wessex Water[13]
March 2013-May 2013
A4e | AAT | All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group - (funded by: British Youth Council, YMCA, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services - NCVYS) | All Party Water Group - (funded by: British Youth Council, YMCA, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services - NCVYS) | Augur Group | BALPA | Bellway Essex | British Association of Occupational Therapists and College of Occupational Therapists | British Heart Foundation - training | BSIA | Centurion Industrial Asset Management | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA) | EAL | Essential Living | FDA | Garrison Developments LLP | Gentoo - events | Geoffrey Osborne Ltd | How2 | Local Government Information Unit | London Stansted Corridor Consortium | Managers in Partnership | Mexichem Fluor | MOAT | National Association of Local Councils (NALC) | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign - (event supported by RWE Npower) | NET (Nuclear Education Trust) | One Housing | Peabody | Prologis | Pteg | Reed - events | Riverside | Salvation Army - events | Serco - events | Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | Sovereign Housing - events | Stanion Properties | StepChange | Tango LLP | Ticketmaster | Tunstall | UNISON | Victims Support - training | Wessex Water[14]
December 2012-February 2013
A4e | All Party Parliamentary Youth Affairs Group | All Party Water Group | Augur Group | Bellway Essex | British Association of Occupational Therapists and College of Occupational Therapists | BSIA | Centurion Industrial Asset Management | Civil Service Pensioners Alliance (CSPA) | EAL | FDA | FDA | Garrison Developments LLP | Geoffrey Osborne Ltd | Housing Voice | How2 | LINPOP | Local Government Information Unit | Love Luton Campaign | Managers in Partnership | Mexichem Fluor | MOAT | National Association of Local Councils (NALC) | National Federation of Occupational Pensioners (NFOP) | National Right to Fuel Campaign | NET (Nuclear Education Trust) | One Housing | Peabody | Prologis | PRUPIM | Pteg | Riverside | Salvation Army | Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists | Sovereign Housing | Stanion Properties | Tango LLP | Ticketmaster | Tunstall | UNISON | Wessex Water[15]
2008
Abbey | Audit Commission | Barratt | Local Government Information Unit | MacoPharma | National Association of Estate Agents Parliamentary Group | Prologis | Thames Gateway | UNISON | FSA[17]
Contacts
Third Floor, Millbank Tower
London SW1P
Resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rod Muir Morris plots 2015 shake-up Public Affairs News, 11 December 2014
- ↑ Charles Pitt Linkedin, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ Steve Barwick Linkedin, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ James Noble Linkedin, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ George Robinson Linkedin, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ Our peopleConnect pa, accessed 27 January 2015
- ↑ Matthew Palutikof Linkedin, accessed 27 January 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Register 1st September 2014 - 30th November 2014 APPC, accessed 27 January 2015
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014 APPC, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Register for 1st March 2014 - 31st May 2014 APPC, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Register for 1st December 2013 - 28th February 2014 APPC, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Register for 1st September 2013 - 30th November 2013 APPC, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Register for 1st June 2013 - 31st August 2013 APPC, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Register for 1st March 2013 - 31st May 2013 APPC, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Register for 1st December 2012 - 28th February 2013 APPC, accessed 30 October 2014
- ↑ Connect Public Affairs Ltd profile 2015, Registrar of consultant lobbyists, accessed 5 February 2016
- ↑ APPC register, to November 2008, accessed Feb 2009
