UnLtd
Brings together: Ashoka, CAN, the Scarman Trust, SSE, Senscot, the Scottish network for social entrepreneurs and Comic Relief. It was given a £100m endowment to fund pet projects and aid in the privatising of public services. (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. (2) Now run by John Rafferty, once 'Tony Blair's most trusted ally in Scotland', who was briefly a spin doctor 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. (3) 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).(4) notes
1. http://www.enterprising-communities.org.uk/members.shtml#biog1
2. http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/unltd.html
3. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/20-5-1999-23-41-15.html
