Not only this, other Coronavirus-related contracts have also been awarded to companies with close links to the Conservative Party. That said, there are connections between the Nicholas Walker named on Companies House and the fellow trustees of OneSchool Global Knockloughrim. In 2015, Brethren members followed Charity Commission officials during a dispute over the Preston Down Trust.
Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them.
Mr Christie was intending to make a statement about his court battle with his family - who remain loyal to the Exclusive Brethren - in the United Kingdom as they try to force him to give up the business he founded in 1978 and ran for 40 years. This article was updated on 29 August to take into account the £113.95 million contract for face masks. It was awarded a £416,000 contract to supply PPE to Leeds City Council. Unispace and the Department of Health and Social Care have been approached for comment. Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them. The Government has made full use of this slipstream – shelling out billions to the private sector in just a few months. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. The church told Byline Times: “Plymouth Brethren meeting halls are only ever used for their intended charitable purposes and never for business networking or discussion. Conservative MP Peter Bone supported the church’s position and even tabled a motion in Parliament aimed at amending the Charities Act to restore the presumption that all religious groups are for the public benefit and therefore can be charities. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. Official Brethren ministry documents reveal that, in 2006, Bruce Hales preached to his flock about punching people, saying "the way to deal with people" was to "give one first, and then take it back, back again, bang, out, down, done. The sect, whose members are subject to strict disciplinary practices, enjoys tax reliefs and rebates reportedly worth as much as £11 million a year. “We understand Mr Gareth Hales is in conversation with the relevant authorities about the measures he had to take, and steps that can be taken to protect him and his family in the future," the church spokeperson said.
Unispace was bought by private equity firm CPE Capital for $400 million in December 2019, though Hales and Hazell appear to have retained control of Unispace Global, which generated revenues of £56 million in 2018.
The multi-millionaire son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce D. Hales has been accused of assaulting a man on a public street outside the religious leader's mansion in suburban Sydney. In addition, the religious group owns many gospel halls up and down the UK. Henderson-Hau says Gareth had come with several of his brothers and his Uncle Stephen. Unispace admits that the founders of the company met through the church in 2008, although denies that the company is owned or run by the Brethren directly. The Exclusive Brethren is a subset of a Christian group, often described as Plymouth Brethren in the UK.
Another company called Tower Supplies, based in Dorset, appears to have been awarded more than £40 million in two contracts to supply PPE. Charlie Aris is the CEO at Tower Supplies, according to his Linkedin profile.
It was awarded a £4 million contract to supply PPE to the DHSC in May this year. Revealed by the Government last month and reported on by Byline Times, the contract began on 16 May and ended a day later. In 2013, former Conservative MP Amber Rudd visited the church in St. Leonards-on-Sea and an investigation by The Times found the group attempting to influence British politics by providing Conservative MPs with election support. The Focus Learning Trust, that runs the schools, is affiliated to the Brethren. Conservative MP Charlie Elphick also accused the Charity Commission of trying to suppress religion in this case. He grabbed my left arm first, going for the phone and then grabbed my neck and pushed it down. We will not hesitate to exercise our legal rights if defamed.". Members who fall foul of the church's leadership or its strict doctrine can be excommunicated, or "withdrawn from", after which the church will often refuse them all access or contact with their families and will also try to exclude them from their jobs and businesses. Mr Christie said he was also initially manhandled, and that he saw Mr Hales "wrestled hard to get hold of the phone". It is believed to be owned by members of the Brethren community, a secretive fundamentalist Christian sect. Former teachers have alleged that they were required to tolerate bullying, racism and homophobia. Aside from the Ayanda deal, the Government has given Coronavirus contracts worth nearly £1 million to Public First – a public affairs company founded by a former colleague of Dominic Cummings and the co-author of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. They were regularly in contact with former Prime Minister John Howard, donate secretly to the Liberal Party, and have lobbied for and supported conservative causes. Half a billion pounds distributed to Brethren-linked firms represents roughly 10% of the total cash piled into PPE procurement contracts by the Government in recent months. It won a £348,000 contract to supply Type IIR masks to Derbyshire County Council. The Government has awarded a colossal £240 million contract for personal protective equipment (PPE) to a firm founded and run by leading members of a hardline, conservative religious sect which preaches that the outside world is morally corrupting, Byline Times can reveal. The regulator then received more than 3,000 letters from church members and more than 200 letters from MPs, and The Times alleged that “Charity Commission officials were followed to unrelated events by Brethren members”.
The church has denied Mr Hales assaulted the men. Given considerable concern about the billions spent on PPE contracts during the Coronavirus crisis without competitive tendering – much of which appears to have gone to Conservative friends and donors – this new revelation suggests an ever narrower sectional interest when it comes to public funds. He stood inches in front of my face and just stared at me. Mr Scott said he and another former member of the world-wide Christian sect, British man Lance Christie, had gone to the nature strip outside Bruce Hales' mansion in Trelawney Street, Eastwood, to record a video on the phone. "I walked away from him as quick as I could," Mr Scott said. The Brethren are hugely wealthy and politically connected. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. In 2017, after a concerted £2 million campaign, the Charity Commission agreed to overturn an earlier decision to refuse the Brethren charitable status. Earlier this month, Byline Times uncovered that roughly a dozen companies with links to the Exclusive Brethren had been awarded Government Coronavirus contracts worth up to £300 million. Multi-millionaire Sydney businessman Bruce D. Hales, left, leads the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
The contract was awarded on 21 April – at a time when more than a thousand people a day were dying in the UK from COVID-19 – and concluded on 21 May. Though the company confirmed to Byline Times that a ‘Nick’ Walker is a director, the school has not not replied to inquiries to confirm whether the same Nick Walker is a trustee. An additional beneficiary has been Topham Guerin – the controversial communications firm that worked with the Conservative Party during the 2019 UK General Election.
Meanwhile, a Nick Walker is named as a trustee of OneSchool Global UK Knockloughrim Campus, which is part of the Focus Learning Trust. There is no legal or pastoral connection between the Church and the businesses that members run.”. If an individual church member decided to back a particular party, candidate or cause, that’s a matter for them. In addition, Oska Care Ltd was awarded a £338,000 contract to supply manual ward beds and mattresses to SEC Hospital in March. "I was feeling faint and thought I was going to collapse.
Not only this, other Coronavirus-related contracts have also been awarded to companies with close links to the Conservative Party. That said, there are connections between the Nicholas Walker named on Companies House and the fellow trustees of OneSchool Global Knockloughrim. In 2015, Brethren members followed Charity Commission officials during a dispute over the Preston Down Trust.
Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them.
Mr Christie was intending to make a statement about his court battle with his family - who remain loyal to the Exclusive Brethren - in the United Kingdom as they try to force him to give up the business he founded in 1978 and ran for 40 years. This article was updated on 29 August to take into account the £113.95 million contract for face masks. It was awarded a £416,000 contract to supply PPE to Leeds City Council. Unispace and the Department of Health and Social Care have been approached for comment. Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them. The Government has made full use of this slipstream – shelling out billions to the private sector in just a few months. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. The church told Byline Times: “Plymouth Brethren meeting halls are only ever used for their intended charitable purposes and never for business networking or discussion. Conservative MP Peter Bone supported the church’s position and even tabled a motion in Parliament aimed at amending the Charities Act to restore the presumption that all religious groups are for the public benefit and therefore can be charities. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. Official Brethren ministry documents reveal that, in 2006, Bruce Hales preached to his flock about punching people, saying "the way to deal with people" was to "give one first, and then take it back, back again, bang, out, down, done. The sect, whose members are subject to strict disciplinary practices, enjoys tax reliefs and rebates reportedly worth as much as £11 million a year. “We understand Mr Gareth Hales is in conversation with the relevant authorities about the measures he had to take, and steps that can be taken to protect him and his family in the future," the church spokeperson said.
Unispace was bought by private equity firm CPE Capital for $400 million in December 2019, though Hales and Hazell appear to have retained control of Unispace Global, which generated revenues of £56 million in 2018.
The multi-millionaire son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce D. Hales has been accused of assaulting a man on a public street outside the religious leader's mansion in suburban Sydney. In addition, the religious group owns many gospel halls up and down the UK. Henderson-Hau says Gareth had come with several of his brothers and his Uncle Stephen. Unispace admits that the founders of the company met through the church in 2008, although denies that the company is owned or run by the Brethren directly. The Exclusive Brethren is a subset of a Christian group, often described as Plymouth Brethren in the UK.
Another company called Tower Supplies, based in Dorset, appears to have been awarded more than £40 million in two contracts to supply PPE. Charlie Aris is the CEO at Tower Supplies, according to his Linkedin profile.
It was awarded a £4 million contract to supply PPE to the DHSC in May this year. Revealed by the Government last month and reported on by Byline Times, the contract began on 16 May and ended a day later. In 2013, former Conservative MP Amber Rudd visited the church in St. Leonards-on-Sea and an investigation by The Times found the group attempting to influence British politics by providing Conservative MPs with election support. The Focus Learning Trust, that runs the schools, is affiliated to the Brethren. Conservative MP Charlie Elphick also accused the Charity Commission of trying to suppress religion in this case. He grabbed my left arm first, going for the phone and then grabbed my neck and pushed it down. We will not hesitate to exercise our legal rights if defamed.". Members who fall foul of the church's leadership or its strict doctrine can be excommunicated, or "withdrawn from", after which the church will often refuse them all access or contact with their families and will also try to exclude them from their jobs and businesses. Mr Christie said he was also initially manhandled, and that he saw Mr Hales "wrestled hard to get hold of the phone". It is believed to be owned by members of the Brethren community, a secretive fundamentalist Christian sect. Former teachers have alleged that they were required to tolerate bullying, racism and homophobia. Aside from the Ayanda deal, the Government has given Coronavirus contracts worth nearly £1 million to Public First – a public affairs company founded by a former colleague of Dominic Cummings and the co-author of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. They were regularly in contact with former Prime Minister John Howard, donate secretly to the Liberal Party, and have lobbied for and supported conservative causes. Half a billion pounds distributed to Brethren-linked firms represents roughly 10% of the total cash piled into PPE procurement contracts by the Government in recent months. It won a £348,000 contract to supply Type IIR masks to Derbyshire County Council. The Government has awarded a colossal £240 million contract for personal protective equipment (PPE) to a firm founded and run by leading members of a hardline, conservative religious sect which preaches that the outside world is morally corrupting, Byline Times can reveal. The regulator then received more than 3,000 letters from church members and more than 200 letters from MPs, and The Times alleged that “Charity Commission officials were followed to unrelated events by Brethren members”.
The church has denied Mr Hales assaulted the men. Given considerable concern about the billions spent on PPE contracts during the Coronavirus crisis without competitive tendering – much of which appears to have gone to Conservative friends and donors – this new revelation suggests an ever narrower sectional interest when it comes to public funds. He stood inches in front of my face and just stared at me. Mr Scott said he and another former member of the world-wide Christian sect, British man Lance Christie, had gone to the nature strip outside Bruce Hales' mansion in Trelawney Street, Eastwood, to record a video on the phone. "I walked away from him as quick as I could," Mr Scott said. The Brethren are hugely wealthy and politically connected. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. In 2017, after a concerted £2 million campaign, the Charity Commission agreed to overturn an earlier decision to refuse the Brethren charitable status. Earlier this month, Byline Times uncovered that roughly a dozen companies with links to the Exclusive Brethren had been awarded Government Coronavirus contracts worth up to £300 million. Multi-millionaire Sydney businessman Bruce D. Hales, left, leads the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
The contract was awarded on 21 April – at a time when more than a thousand people a day were dying in the UK from COVID-19 – and concluded on 21 May. Though the company confirmed to Byline Times that a ‘Nick’ Walker is a director, the school has not not replied to inquiries to confirm whether the same Nick Walker is a trustee. An additional beneficiary has been Topham Guerin – the controversial communications firm that worked with the Conservative Party during the 2019 UK General Election.
Meanwhile, a Nick Walker is named as a trustee of OneSchool Global UK Knockloughrim Campus, which is part of the Focus Learning Trust. There is no legal or pastoral connection between the Church and the businesses that members run.”. If an individual church member decided to back a particular party, candidate or cause, that’s a matter for them. In addition, Oska Care Ltd was awarded a £338,000 contract to supply manual ward beds and mattresses to SEC Hospital in March. "I was feeling faint and thought I was going to collapse.
Not only this, other Coronavirus-related contracts have also been awarded to companies with close links to the Conservative Party. That said, there are connections between the Nicholas Walker named on Companies House and the fellow trustees of OneSchool Global Knockloughrim. In 2015, Brethren members followed Charity Commission officials during a dispute over the Preston Down Trust.
Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them.
Mr Christie was intending to make a statement about his court battle with his family - who remain loyal to the Exclusive Brethren - in the United Kingdom as they try to force him to give up the business he founded in 1978 and ran for 40 years. This article was updated on 29 August to take into account the £113.95 million contract for face masks. It was awarded a £416,000 contract to supply PPE to Leeds City Council. Unispace and the Department of Health and Social Care have been approached for comment. Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them. The Government has made full use of this slipstream – shelling out billions to the private sector in just a few months. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. The church told Byline Times: “Plymouth Brethren meeting halls are only ever used for their intended charitable purposes and never for business networking or discussion. Conservative MP Peter Bone supported the church’s position and even tabled a motion in Parliament aimed at amending the Charities Act to restore the presumption that all religious groups are for the public benefit and therefore can be charities. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. Official Brethren ministry documents reveal that, in 2006, Bruce Hales preached to his flock about punching people, saying "the way to deal with people" was to "give one first, and then take it back, back again, bang, out, down, done. The sect, whose members are subject to strict disciplinary practices, enjoys tax reliefs and rebates reportedly worth as much as £11 million a year. “We understand Mr Gareth Hales is in conversation with the relevant authorities about the measures he had to take, and steps that can be taken to protect him and his family in the future," the church spokeperson said.
Unispace was bought by private equity firm CPE Capital for $400 million in December 2019, though Hales and Hazell appear to have retained control of Unispace Global, which generated revenues of £56 million in 2018.
The multi-millionaire son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce D. Hales has been accused of assaulting a man on a public street outside the religious leader's mansion in suburban Sydney. In addition, the religious group owns many gospel halls up and down the UK. Henderson-Hau says Gareth had come with several of his brothers and his Uncle Stephen. Unispace admits that the founders of the company met through the church in 2008, although denies that the company is owned or run by the Brethren directly. The Exclusive Brethren is a subset of a Christian group, often described as Plymouth Brethren in the UK.
Another company called Tower Supplies, based in Dorset, appears to have been awarded more than £40 million in two contracts to supply PPE. Charlie Aris is the CEO at Tower Supplies, according to his Linkedin profile.
It was awarded a £4 million contract to supply PPE to the DHSC in May this year. Revealed by the Government last month and reported on by Byline Times, the contract began on 16 May and ended a day later. In 2013, former Conservative MP Amber Rudd visited the church in St. Leonards-on-Sea and an investigation by The Times found the group attempting to influence British politics by providing Conservative MPs with election support. The Focus Learning Trust, that runs the schools, is affiliated to the Brethren. Conservative MP Charlie Elphick also accused the Charity Commission of trying to suppress religion in this case. He grabbed my left arm first, going for the phone and then grabbed my neck and pushed it down. We will not hesitate to exercise our legal rights if defamed.". Members who fall foul of the church's leadership or its strict doctrine can be excommunicated, or "withdrawn from", after which the church will often refuse them all access or contact with their families and will also try to exclude them from their jobs and businesses. Mr Christie said he was also initially manhandled, and that he saw Mr Hales "wrestled hard to get hold of the phone". It is believed to be owned by members of the Brethren community, a secretive fundamentalist Christian sect. Former teachers have alleged that they were required to tolerate bullying, racism and homophobia. Aside from the Ayanda deal, the Government has given Coronavirus contracts worth nearly £1 million to Public First – a public affairs company founded by a former colleague of Dominic Cummings and the co-author of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. They were regularly in contact with former Prime Minister John Howard, donate secretly to the Liberal Party, and have lobbied for and supported conservative causes. Half a billion pounds distributed to Brethren-linked firms represents roughly 10% of the total cash piled into PPE procurement contracts by the Government in recent months. It won a £348,000 contract to supply Type IIR masks to Derbyshire County Council. The Government has awarded a colossal £240 million contract for personal protective equipment (PPE) to a firm founded and run by leading members of a hardline, conservative religious sect which preaches that the outside world is morally corrupting, Byline Times can reveal. The regulator then received more than 3,000 letters from church members and more than 200 letters from MPs, and The Times alleged that “Charity Commission officials were followed to unrelated events by Brethren members”.
The church has denied Mr Hales assaulted the men. Given considerable concern about the billions spent on PPE contracts during the Coronavirus crisis without competitive tendering – much of which appears to have gone to Conservative friends and donors – this new revelation suggests an ever narrower sectional interest when it comes to public funds. He stood inches in front of my face and just stared at me. Mr Scott said he and another former member of the world-wide Christian sect, British man Lance Christie, had gone to the nature strip outside Bruce Hales' mansion in Trelawney Street, Eastwood, to record a video on the phone. "I walked away from him as quick as I could," Mr Scott said. The Brethren are hugely wealthy and politically connected. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. In 2017, after a concerted £2 million campaign, the Charity Commission agreed to overturn an earlier decision to refuse the Brethren charitable status. Earlier this month, Byline Times uncovered that roughly a dozen companies with links to the Exclusive Brethren had been awarded Government Coronavirus contracts worth up to £300 million. Multi-millionaire Sydney businessman Bruce D. Hales, left, leads the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
The contract was awarded on 21 April – at a time when more than a thousand people a day were dying in the UK from COVID-19 – and concluded on 21 May. Though the company confirmed to Byline Times that a ‘Nick’ Walker is a director, the school has not not replied to inquiries to confirm whether the same Nick Walker is a trustee. An additional beneficiary has been Topham Guerin – the controversial communications firm that worked with the Conservative Party during the 2019 UK General Election.
Meanwhile, a Nick Walker is named as a trustee of OneSchool Global UK Knockloughrim Campus, which is part of the Focus Learning Trust. There is no legal or pastoral connection between the Church and the businesses that members run.”. If an individual church member decided to back a particular party, candidate or cause, that’s a matter for them. In addition, Oska Care Ltd was awarded a £338,000 contract to supply manual ward beds and mattresses to SEC Hospital in March. "I was feeling faint and thought I was going to collapse.
"When he saw the video he tried to duck behind me and then he lunged to grab the phone," Mr Scott told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Accora Ltd won a £248,000 contract to supply hospital beds to NHS Scotland. Unispace Global Ltd was awarded a more than £108 million contract on 16 May for garments for biological or chemical protection. Byline Times has uncovered about a dozen connections between trustees listed amongst this school and church network, who also appear to be directors and shareholders at companies awarded PPE and ventilator procurement contracts by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The former is Unispace Global Director and the latter is CEO. The multi-millionaire son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce D. Hales has been accused of assaulting a man on a public street outside the religious leader's mansion in suburban Sydney. Nicholas Walker is listed as a director of the company with an Antrim address. These contracts have been enabled by a loophole in EU law that allows governments to rapidly grant public sector contracts to private firms without going through the usual process of competition, during an emergency. While some connections therefore may be coincidental, there is a sufficient number of confirmed links to ask why an organisation with so few members should be associated with such a large volume of PPE contracts. Second on the list is Ayanda Capital Limited – commissioned to deliver £252.5 million worth of masks in April. Two people have significant control of Unispace Global: Anthony Hazell and Gareth Hales. “We have to get a hatred, an utter hatred of the world,” world leader Bruce Hales said in 2006. Multi-millionaire Sydney businessman Bruce D. Hales, left, leads the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.Credit:Michael Bachelard. This is one of many examples of the group’s lobbying activities, that have seen it able to mobilise the support of hundreds of MPs and raise millions of pounds. regularly in contact with former Prime Minister John Howard, lobbied for and supported conservative causes, Australian governments generously fund their member-only schools, refuse them all access or contact with their families. Any contractual agreements between the Government and these independent businesses are totally unrelated to the church.”. Gareth Hales | Sydney, Australia | Global CEO at Unispace Global | 500+ connections | View Gareth's homepage, profile, activity, articles Director Garth Woodcock is also a director at Unispace Scotland Ltd, which appears to be part of the Unispace Global Ltd network.
Not only this, other Coronavirus-related contracts have also been awarded to companies with close links to the Conservative Party. That said, there are connections between the Nicholas Walker named on Companies House and the fellow trustees of OneSchool Global Knockloughrim. In 2015, Brethren members followed Charity Commission officials during a dispute over the Preston Down Trust.
Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them.
Mr Christie was intending to make a statement about his court battle with his family - who remain loyal to the Exclusive Brethren - in the United Kingdom as they try to force him to give up the business he founded in 1978 and ran for 40 years. This article was updated on 29 August to take into account the £113.95 million contract for face masks. It was awarded a £416,000 contract to supply PPE to Leeds City Council. Unispace and the Department of Health and Social Care have been approached for comment. Two men have accused Gareth Hales, whose office fitout company was recently bought by a private equity firm for a reported $400 million, of assaulting them. The Government has made full use of this slipstream – shelling out billions to the private sector in just a few months. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. The church told Byline Times: “Plymouth Brethren meeting halls are only ever used for their intended charitable purposes and never for business networking or discussion. Conservative MP Peter Bone supported the church’s position and even tabled a motion in Parliament aimed at amending the Charities Act to restore the presumption that all religious groups are for the public benefit and therefore can be charities. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. Official Brethren ministry documents reveal that, in 2006, Bruce Hales preached to his flock about punching people, saying "the way to deal with people" was to "give one first, and then take it back, back again, bang, out, down, done. The sect, whose members are subject to strict disciplinary practices, enjoys tax reliefs and rebates reportedly worth as much as £11 million a year. “We understand Mr Gareth Hales is in conversation with the relevant authorities about the measures he had to take, and steps that can be taken to protect him and his family in the future," the church spokeperson said.
Unispace was bought by private equity firm CPE Capital for $400 million in December 2019, though Hales and Hazell appear to have retained control of Unispace Global, which generated revenues of £56 million in 2018.
The multi-millionaire son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce D. Hales has been accused of assaulting a man on a public street outside the religious leader's mansion in suburban Sydney. In addition, the religious group owns many gospel halls up and down the UK. Henderson-Hau says Gareth had come with several of his brothers and his Uncle Stephen. Unispace admits that the founders of the company met through the church in 2008, although denies that the company is owned or run by the Brethren directly. The Exclusive Brethren is a subset of a Christian group, often described as Plymouth Brethren in the UK.
Another company called Tower Supplies, based in Dorset, appears to have been awarded more than £40 million in two contracts to supply PPE. Charlie Aris is the CEO at Tower Supplies, according to his Linkedin profile.
It was awarded a £4 million contract to supply PPE to the DHSC in May this year. Revealed by the Government last month and reported on by Byline Times, the contract began on 16 May and ended a day later. In 2013, former Conservative MP Amber Rudd visited the church in St. Leonards-on-Sea and an investigation by The Times found the group attempting to influence British politics by providing Conservative MPs with election support. The Focus Learning Trust, that runs the schools, is affiliated to the Brethren. Conservative MP Charlie Elphick also accused the Charity Commission of trying to suppress religion in this case. He grabbed my left arm first, going for the phone and then grabbed my neck and pushed it down. We will not hesitate to exercise our legal rights if defamed.". Members who fall foul of the church's leadership or its strict doctrine can be excommunicated, or "withdrawn from", after which the church will often refuse them all access or contact with their families and will also try to exclude them from their jobs and businesses. Mr Christie said he was also initially manhandled, and that he saw Mr Hales "wrestled hard to get hold of the phone". It is believed to be owned by members of the Brethren community, a secretive fundamentalist Christian sect. Former teachers have alleged that they were required to tolerate bullying, racism and homophobia. Aside from the Ayanda deal, the Government has given Coronavirus contracts worth nearly £1 million to Public First – a public affairs company founded by a former colleague of Dominic Cummings and the co-author of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. They were regularly in contact with former Prime Minister John Howard, donate secretly to the Liberal Party, and have lobbied for and supported conservative causes. Half a billion pounds distributed to Brethren-linked firms represents roughly 10% of the total cash piled into PPE procurement contracts by the Government in recent months. It won a £348,000 contract to supply Type IIR masks to Derbyshire County Council. The Government has awarded a colossal £240 million contract for personal protective equipment (PPE) to a firm founded and run by leading members of a hardline, conservative religious sect which preaches that the outside world is morally corrupting, Byline Times can reveal. The regulator then received more than 3,000 letters from church members and more than 200 letters from MPs, and The Times alleged that “Charity Commission officials were followed to unrelated events by Brethren members”.
The church has denied Mr Hales assaulted the men. Given considerable concern about the billions spent on PPE contracts during the Coronavirus crisis without competitive tendering – much of which appears to have gone to Conservative friends and donors – this new revelation suggests an ever narrower sectional interest when it comes to public funds. He stood inches in front of my face and just stared at me. Mr Scott said he and another former member of the world-wide Christian sect, British man Lance Christie, had gone to the nature strip outside Bruce Hales' mansion in Trelawney Street, Eastwood, to record a video on the phone. "I walked away from him as quick as I could," Mr Scott said. The Brethren are hugely wealthy and politically connected. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. In 2017, after a concerted £2 million campaign, the Charity Commission agreed to overturn an earlier decision to refuse the Brethren charitable status. Earlier this month, Byline Times uncovered that roughly a dozen companies with links to the Exclusive Brethren had been awarded Government Coronavirus contracts worth up to £300 million. Multi-millionaire Sydney businessman Bruce D. Hales, left, leads the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
The contract was awarded on 21 April – at a time when more than a thousand people a day were dying in the UK from COVID-19 – and concluded on 21 May. Though the company confirmed to Byline Times that a ‘Nick’ Walker is a director, the school has not not replied to inquiries to confirm whether the same Nick Walker is a trustee. An additional beneficiary has been Topham Guerin – the controversial communications firm that worked with the Conservative Party during the 2019 UK General Election.
Meanwhile, a Nick Walker is named as a trustee of OneSchool Global UK Knockloughrim Campus, which is part of the Focus Learning Trust. There is no legal or pastoral connection between the Church and the businesses that members run.”. If an individual church member decided to back a particular party, candidate or cause, that’s a matter for them. In addition, Oska Care Ltd was awarded a £338,000 contract to supply manual ward beds and mattresses to SEC Hospital in March. "I was feeling faint and thought I was going to collapse.
