Airey Neave Trust

The Airey Neave Trust commemorates the late Airey Neave DSO OBE MC MP who was assassinated in the Palace of Westminster in 1979.

The Trust is active in two main specific areas:

1.Research

The Trust funds research on issues of 'tyranny and injustice'. It has worked closely with research institutes in the United States. In 2001 it organised a joint seminar attended by many leading British and American practitioners in the field of counter-terrorism.

The work of the Trust is increasingly focused on the need to support those with policy responsibilities for counter-terrorism.

The first project, launched with the involvement of the Metropolitan Police, aims to prevent, deter, disrupt and detect terrorist activity particularly in its preparatory stages. The second is a £50,000 two-year study on "Transnational Networks and the Implications for International Security". This is being undertaken by a member of the Cambridge Security Programme.

The Trustees wish to build on this work by expanding research into practical counter-terrorist issues. Among the proposals currently under consideration are radicalisation of Islamic youth, suicide bombers and countering terrorist hostile surveillance within the UK.

2. Refugees

The Trust also focuses its attention on Home Office approved refugees, already in the United Kingdom who need to perfect their knowledge of English and to requalify in their professions. Support is concentrated in the higher education field, principally post graduate work.

Fund-raising events have, according to their website included:

the organisation of a race evening in the City of London every year for the past seventeen years, which have raised over £150,000; a concert in St John’s, Smith Square, in 1996, two Quiz Nights, one in the Duke of York’s HQ, and the other in the Imperial War Museum in 1999, all three again making substantial profits for the work of the Trust.

Past Research Awarded

Their address is also that of Newarthill plc

Trustees

The President:

The Rt Hon The Lord Mayhew of Twysden QC DL

Trustees:

Dame Veronica Sutherland DBE CMG (Chairman)

Professor Christopher Andrew MA PhD

Brigadier E A Butler DSO MBE

Mr Hugh Tilney (Deputy Chairman)

Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMG

The Hon Marigold Webb

The Hon Patrick Neave

Professor Paul Wilkinson

The Hon Sir William McAlpine Bt

Administrator: Mrs Hannah Scott