Antisemitism Policy Trust
The Antisemitism Policy Trust lists four active directors – William Bennett, Sir Trevor Pears, Nigel Rowley and Ian Shaw.[1] The Trust provides the secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism and the office to the Government's Independent Advisor on Antisemitism, John Mann.
The Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism 23 Jan 2001 - 08 Jul 2010 was succeeded by the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism Foundation 08 Jul 2010 - 27 Feb 2017 and then by the Antisemitism Policy Trust 27 Feb 2017 to present.
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The Trust was incorporated on 23 January 2001 (company no. 04146486) and registered with the Charity Commission on 11 December 2001 (charity no. 1089736). It began life as the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism (PCAA), (23 Jan 2001-8 Jul 2010). Its founding directors were Mandy Louise Bendel, Lord Peter Archer, Lord David Hunt, Lord Greville Janner, Stuart Levy, Jonathan (later Lord) Mendelsohn, Jonathan Metliss, Michael Portillo and Stephen Rubin.[2] On 8 July 2010, the organisation changed its name to the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism Foundation before assuming its current name on 27 February 2017.[3]
Upon incorporation at Companies House, PCAA described its principal business activities as 'promoting racial harmony between Jewish community and other members of society by working towards elimination of racism in form of antisemitism'.[2] Its charitable objects are:
- the advancement of education on the history and the culture of the Jewish people
- the promotion of racial harmony for the benefit of the public between the Jewish Community and other members of society by working towards elimination of racism in the form of antisemitism
- the promotion of such purposes as shall be charitable in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
The second of these points provides the principal object of the charity which, it was envisaged, would be achieved through 'education, lobbying and the organisation of lectures to the community as a whole'.[4]
Funding
| Funders of the Antisemitism Policy Trust in £ sterling | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | Total |
| ??? | ||||||||
| MHCLG | 503,000 | |||||||
| The Pears Family Charitable Foundation | 150,000 | 150,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 275,000 | 775,000 | ||
In its first year of operation, the charitable company received goods and services to the value of £37,440 from Stephen Rubin, Chair of the PCAA Executive Committee, through one of his companies (Robert Stephen Holdings Ltd). Almost £30,000 of this went on consultancy fees and £6,671 on legal fees.[4] This pattern continued in 2002, with donations coming Rubin's main company, Pentland Group Ltd and being used towards consultancy and legal fees; at the same time, the company began to accrue modest donations.
In 2003, PCAA began to run an office and to report the salary and NI contributions of a member of staff in its annual return. However, the company's annual return stated that PCAA 'did not directly employ any staff for the period under review. [...] All costs in the period were met by intangible income'.[5] In the accounts, Rubin's donation is allocated to salaries, national insurance and office running costs. In 2004, PCAA allocated £21,620 to research costs, which continued to feature in subsequent accounts.[6]
In 2009, coinciding with Conway's departure as Executive Director, Rubin's donation was reduced and some of the shortfall was made up by the Pears Charitable Foundation, which had as a trustee Sir Trevor Pears, who had taken over as Chair of the PCAA Executive Committee when Rubin became PCAA's Chair of Trustees (with Pears as his Vice Chair). [7] On 11 December 2015, Rubin resigned as a trustee, exempting the charitable company from reporting his donations in their accounts.[8] In the 2017 accounts, it was stated explicitly that 'As with last year, the majority of donations received by the charity are from The Pears Family Charitable Foundation'.[9] Donations declared in the APT accounts are as follows and not entirely corroborated by the accounts for the Rubin Foundation (which list donations of £170,000, £30,000 and £20,000 for the years ending April 2015, 2016 and 2017) or the Pears Family Charitable Foundation (which report donations of £150,000 in the years ending March 2017 and 2018).
| YEAR | SOURCE | TRUSTEE | ITEM | AMOUNT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Robert Stephen Holdings | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £37,440 |
| 2002 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £34,904 |
| 2003 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £50,009 |
| 2004 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £68,527 |
| 2005 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £104,928 |
| 2006 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £129,742 |
| 2007 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £144,132 |
| 2008 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £199,879 |
| 2009 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £107,180 |
| 2009 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £72,297 |
| 2010 | Pentland Group Ltd | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £82,500 |
| 2010 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £50,000 |
| 2011 | Rubin Foundation | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £82,500 |
| 2011 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £65,360 |
| 2012 | Rubin Foundation | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £82,500 |
| 2012 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £100,000 |
| 2013 | Rubin Foundation | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £86,000 |
| 2013 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £125,000 |
| 2014 | Rubin Foundation | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £86,000 |
| 2014 | Rubin Foundation | Stephen Rubin | Unrestricted donation | £70,000 |
| 2014 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £75,000 |
| 2015 | Rubin Foundation | Stephen Rubin | Donated services and facilities (staff and offices) | £86,000 |
| 2015 | Rubin Foundation | Stephen Rubin | Unrestricted donation | £130,000 |
| 2015 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £100,000 |
| 2016 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £96,238 |
| 2016 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Purchases | £99,720 |
| 2017 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £307,486 |
| 2017 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Purchases | £113,393 |
| 2018 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Unrestricted donation | £157,818 |
| 2018 | Pears Family Charitable Foundation | Trevor Pears | Purchases | £7,486 |
| £2,952,039 |
Related
- All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism
- Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism
Offices
Between 2001 and 2014, the charitable company was registered at:
38 Great Smith Street London. SW1P 3BU
Coinciding with the resignation of Stephen Rubin in 2015, the registered office moved to:
30 City Road London. EC1Y 2AB
APT lists its principal place of business as:
Haskell House 152 West End Lane London. NW6 1SD[10]
Notes
- ↑ Companies House Antisemitism Policy Trust.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism Annual Return 2002, Companies House, Accessed 3 June 2020.
- ↑ Antisemitism Policy Trust Company Overview, Companies House, Accessed 3 June 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism Directors' Report and Financial Statements for the Period 23 January 2001 to 31 December 2001, Companies House, Accessed 3 June 2020.
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