Wincott Foundation
The Wincott Foundation is a charitable foundation chaired by Sir Geoffrey Owen, a former editor of the Financial Times and Senior Fellow in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. It spends around £30,000 to £40,000 annually and is best known for its Annual UK Press Awards where print and broadcast journalists are given awards for economic, business and financial journalism.
Origins and ideological orientation
The Wincott Foundation was founded in April 1969 by Ralph Harris, [1] the self-described ‘radical reactionary’ who founded the Institute of Economic Affairs [2] It was established in honour of Harold Wincott, an editor of the Investor's Chronicle and a contributor to the Financial Times. [3] ostensibly for 'the encouragement and promotion of the highest standards in economic and financial journalism'. In reality though its was to promote the neoliberal economic model propogated by the Institute of Ecoonomic Affairs which was intended to expand corporate power and roll back the democratic achievements of the post-war era. It hosted lectures by the radical right-wing economist Milton Freedman and was instrumental in the establishment of the Social Affairs Unit in 1980. [4] According to the Daily Telegraph, Ralph Harris remained the 'moving spirit in the Wincott Foundation' until his death in 2006. [5]
Notes
- ↑ PDF of <http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?ID=24&type=page> created 19 March 2010
- ↑ Andrew Roth, 'Lord Harris of High Cross: Rightwing economist with a radical agenda', Guardian, 20 October 2006
- ↑ ‘WINCOTT, Harold Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [Accessed 19 March 2010]
- ↑ 'Obituary: Lord Harris of High Cross', Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006
- ↑ 'Obituary: Lord Harris of High Cross', Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006
