The company was awarded an £18.4 million contract by Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to deliver ventilators. This simple and private service follows the form given in 1 Corinthians 11:23-28, John 20:19, Acts 20:7 and other Scriptures. UBT is listed on the Brethren website as part of its network. The Exclusive Brethren is an evangelical Christian movement which is part of a wider movement known as the Plymouth Brethren. There is no legal or pastoral connection between the Church and the businesses that members run.”. CMT Equipment has been approached for comment. Meanwhile, cleaning products company Arrow County Supplies was awarded two PPE deals worth up to £496,000 by Bristol City Council and Prosper Procurement, the latter acting on behalf of housing associations. That said, there are connections between the Nicholas Walker named on Companies House and the fellow trustees of OneSchool Global Knockloughrim. August, 9 2020 A former Exclusive Brethren who was once told to drink rat poison by the church’s Supreme Leader is one of several former members fighting legal … The company is seemingly run by the Parsons family: Garth, Matthew, and Ryan. In late April, the DHSC awarded a contract worth £2.3 million for the supply of face visors to Ascot Signs, another firm potentially linked to the Brethren. 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. What’s more, a Nick Walker is listed as a trustee at the Knockloughrim school, alongside Parsons and White. He is the son of Exclusive Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. Byline Times and The Citizens catalogue the 12 most notorious contracts awarded to private sector firms during the Coronavirus pandemic so far. Specialising in safety products, including PPE, the firm has received these contracts from local administrations – Norfolk (two contracts), Doncaster, Redcar and Cleveland, Norfolk, and Leeds – rather than central government. Another company called Tower Supplies, based in Dorset, appears to have been awarded more than £40 million in two contracts to supply PPE. According to Companies House, Gareth Hales has significant control of the company and records an Australian address. Updated: 23 Nov 2020, 10:45; As told to Kate Graham ; Invalid Date, BORN into the controversial Exclusive Brethren cult that outlaws birthdays, pop … Tags: Exclusive Brethren, Subsidies. Andrew Cookson is a company director and is listed as the regional principal at The Focus School York, according to its prospectus. Ms O'CONNOR - Treasurer, I wanted to talk to you about the $2 million grant made to Scottsdale Pork which was announced by ministers Ferguson and Barnett, I believe, on 27 October. To have an impact, our investigations need an audience. The gospel hall is based less than an hour away from Ureka’s registered office in Bristol. 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). Company director Samuel Drake holds the same role at OneBus Ltd, which is partly controlled by the Focus Learning Trust, which is a precursor to the OSG. Agile is based in Grimsby and is run by Anita, Christopher, Conran, Daniel, and Nicola Glass. Two other companies with links to the OSG network include Denka UK Ltd. Another firm, Acopia Group, won a contract from County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust for the supply of PPE, worth £249,000. It was awarded a £416,000 contract to supply PPE to Leeds City Council. (August 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) is an influential Christian sect led by Australian businessman Bruce Hales. Behind security gates, inside one of 340 windowless meeting rooms across the country 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”. It won a £348,000 contract to supply Type IIR masks to Derbyshire County Council. Monday, August 10th, 2020 She grew up in 'the Exclusive Brethren', a Christian sect, and even 40 years later finds it difficult to look in the mirror, after being told as a child that vanity was a sin.' For the 17,000 British members of the Exclusive Brethren, life is highly restricted and tightly controlled. BACA is run by Marcus Calder and Benjamin Calder, the latter of whom lists the Rapid Relief Team and UBT among his LinkedIn interests. Byline Times has attempted to contact every company, gospel hall and school to confirm the associations of the individuals named above but, as it has discovered with previous procurement contracts, many of these businesses appear to exist on paper only. Together, we are Brethren. The Fulmer Education Trust is also part of the OSG network and among its trustees is Ross Robertson. Our leading investigations include Russian Interference, Coronavirus, Cronyism and Far Right Radicalisation. Each Gospel hall trust is autonomous and is run by its own board of trustees. One of the largest recipients, a global commercial interior design firm called Unispace, has accumulated deals worth some £670 million for the supply of PPE. In January this year, he was accused of assault by two former members on a public street next to his father’s mansion in Australia, where he lives next door. Next, a workplace safety firm called Total Protection (UK) was awarded a £287,800 contract for the supply of respirator masks by Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The secretive Exclusive Brethren is a sect run more like a corporation than a religious group, according to its critics. 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. None of our meeting halls have been used since 17th March owing to the current covid situation. It was awarded a £4 million contract to supply PPE to the DHSC in May this year. A Richard Allen Blackledge and a Robert Blackledge are listed as being associated with both Arrow County Supplies, and the gospel hall trust. Australian Gareth Hales has a religious background, as the son of Exclusive [Plymouth] Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. 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. It is celebrated each first day of the week by every member of the Plymouth Brethren and it serves to hold our community together in the bond of Christian fellowship and in committal to the Lord Jesus Christ. Serkan Ozturk reports. Some members’ children attend schools run by One School Global and Focus Learning Trust. Returns: next due date: 2021.08.24 overdue: NO last made update: 2020.08.10 documents available: 1 . It came to prominence after being ... 24 December 2020. But given the National Audit Office’s criticism of PPE procurement during the pandemic, the fact so many firms with apparent ties to a little-known religious group have been awarded contracts worth – by our calculations – up to £1.1 billion, equalling the entire DHSC private sector expenditure last year, is worthy of investigation. Agile Medical has been approached for comment. Fellow Inivos boss Gordon Fentiman, who is listed as a director at parent company Specialist Hygiene Solutions, has two public LinkedIn interests: Inivos and the consultancy Universal Business Team (UBT). At least £180 million – and up to £300 million – in ventilator and PPE contracts appear to have been awarded to companies linked to an evangelical movement described as a “cult” by former members which has multiple ties to the Conservative Party, Byline Times can reveal. news; Exclusive Brethren an evil, corrupt cult, court told. The roundtables will be led by Doug Hallman, lead tech at Lampeter Church of the Brethren who works as a video systems designer and integrator for different touring productions, and Enten Eller, who pastors Ambler Church of the Brethren and is on the pastoral team at Living Stream Church of the Brethren–the denomination’s only fully online congregation. The Exclusive Brethren are an Evangelical Protestant Christian church distinct from the Christian or Open Brethren. Charles Allen Campbell is a trustee at The Bloomhill Trust, another OSG member. Inivos also supplies aforementioned Unispace, run by the son of Brethren world leader Bruce Hales. “Acopia is a company which has been supplying consumables for over 43 years and has been built on a foundation of strong core values,” the company told Byline Times. Again, the company appears to be owned by a family, the Nunn family: Alan, Alex, Daniel, Mary and Richard. In addition to the £177 million in contracts above, two contracts worth more than £107 million were awarded to Clandeboye Agencies Ltd to supply PPE to the DHSC. His interests on LinkedIn also include the Brethren-operated Rapid Response Team and UBT. In addition, the religious group owns many gospel halls up and down the UK. A man named Ryan Parsons is also a trustee at the Chelmsford Gospel Hall Trust in Chelmsford, Essex, which maintains gospel halls for the Brethren. “We have to get a hatred, an utter hatred of the world,” world leader Bruce Hales said in 2006. Inivos is run by five members of the Fentiman family, including Warrick Fentiman, who was described by a witness in a court hearing as being “well respected within the PBCC (Plymouth Brethren Christian Church) community”. A Roger Parsons and a Laurence White are listed as senior figures at a Brethren-run Focus School – called OneSchool Global – in Knockloughrim, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. There are connections between this Nick Walker and the Ascot Signs owners: namely, fellow Clandeboye director Andrew Walker is linked to a firm called Causeway Vision, one of the directors of which is Garth White of Ascot. 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. We also introduce new voices of colour in Our Lives Matter. Children separated from their parents. The 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. 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. In 2015, Brethren members followed Charity Commission officials during a dispute over the Preston Down Trust. UBT provides “advisory and group buying services,” and runs corporate training sessions for Brethren members. The secretive Exclusive Brethren sect, now known as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, is hoping to build a church hall in a bushland area north of the town. A weekly collection of news and information regarding the Exclusive Brethren cult. The Focus Learning Trust, that runs the schools, is affiliated to the Brethren. Our leading investigations include Russian Interference, Coronavirus, Cronyism and Far Right Radicalisation. From March to August this year, CMT Equipment – also known as CMT Group – was awarded five PPE contracts worth up to £3.2 million. The Trust was rebranded into the OSG network in April last year. Exclusive Brethren cult leader's millionaire son accused of assault The Age, Australia/January 20, 2020 By Michael Bachelard. EXCLUSIVE ‘Test and Trace’ Replacing Corporate Giants With £800-a … Total Protection has been approached for comment. Local UK website. Of course, there is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of these companies. The former is Unispace Global Director and the latter is CEO. “There are approximately 20,000 members in the UK and many of these are volunteers for the Rapid Relief Team which is a global charity supporting communities in times of need. In April, Techniclean Supply Ltd was awarded a £20 million contract to provide Type IIR face masks. 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. Brethren believe that the Holy Bible is the true Word of God and that we are each called upon to live a life in accordance with its instructions. Meanwhile, a Nick Walker is named as a trustee of OneSchool Global UK Knockloughrim Campus, which is part of the Focus Learning Trust. The company is run by the Prisgrove family: Blake, Carlos, Donovan, Elaine, Giles and Paul. Two of the directors of Arrow County Supplies, based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, appear to be trustees at Holyhead Road Gospel Hall Trust in the same town. The Exclusive Brethren church has been covering up child sex abuse for decades, and last year, I wrote about it. However, now, contracts awarded to approximately 20 firms with apparent ties to the Brethren have now been discovered, with their revenues from these deals stretching up to £1.1 billion. Wives ordered to leave their husbands. Two people have significant control of Unispace Global: Anthony Hazell and Gareth Hales. To have an impact, our investigations need an audience. It says that “the School is generously supported via the donation of time and financial support by the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church”. We also introduce new voices of colour in Our Lives Matter. They are more commonly known as the ‘Exclusive Brethren’ and tend to make the news for all the wrong reasons. Arrow County Supplies has been approached for comment. 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Director Garth Woodcock is also a director at Unispace Scotland Ltd, which appears to be part of the Unispace Global Ltd network. Many of the firms have a background in PPE and healthcare supply, which isn’t disputed. Techniclean Holdings Limited owns more than 75% of the shares, and Micheal Wyatt Barter is a director, with more than 25% of shares and voting rights. A Christopher Glass is a trustee at Haven Gospel Hall, a Brethren facility, located just 15 minutes away from Agile’s registered office. There are currently 8 active directors according to the latest confirmation statement submitted on 10th August 2020. The total amount earned by CMT Equipment is likely to be less than £3.2 million, as three of the contracts were awarded to multiple suppliers. He did business training with UBT and, before that, attended Wilton Park School in Salisbury, which was part of the Brethren network. 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