Sainsburys Action Alert *3 - Sainsburys Family Charitable Trusts
Narwal Stimson | 21.03.2005 17:40
Third in a series of emails calling on people to take action against Sainsburys encouragement of GM foods.
Oxford Uni, GM Milk – meet the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts
Sainsburys Action Alert – Part 3
Please forward on.
The Sainbury family is still the single, most influential force in the supermarket that bears their name. There is no way to get away from the fact that the Minister for Science, Lord David Sainsbury and his numerous kin & in-laws have a strong say in the company.
Less well known is the mechanisms they use to exercise that power – there is some direct holding of shares, but a lot of it is tied up in the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts. These charities are basically a set of tax blags and fronts for the family. On the surface they are nice and friendly to the environment. For example, the Ashden Trust promotes the union of environmentalism and the performing arts.
Lots of hot air and little of real effectiveness. Not surprising that once you dig a little bit deeper you find strong links to Sainsbury’s GM interests intertwined with this lot.
For example, Prof John Gray, the Cambridge plant geneticist, a director of a company holding Lord Sainsburys’ GM patents, is a director of some of the trusts.
The money for the activities of the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts comes from the family’s large shareholdings, in particular in Sainsburys itself, where Lord Sainsburys own pet fund, the Gatsby Trust, owns a whopping 5% of the supermarket.
So as well as being shareholders in Sainsburys, the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts are also connected to GM itself. And if that was not bad enough, the Gatsby and Linbury trusts are also massive donors to Oxford University – with grants running to the hundreds of thousands pounds. And guess what, the Gatsby Trust gives money to no less than the plant sciences dept at Oxford University…. Mmmh.
So, whether you are opposed to the building of the new Oxford animal laboratory (for more info see www.speakcampaigns.org.uk) or opposed to GM contaminated milk in Sainsburys, or just against GM poisoning our food chain in general, then it is time that this link in the chain was held up to be accountable.
Please get ringing, faxing, emailing and writing your disgust at the activities of the Sainburys Trust, and ask them to stop funding research in to genetically modified plants, to put pressure on Sainsburys PLC to get milk from GM fed cattle of their shelves and to stop funding Oxford University as long as it insists on carrying on in barbaric 19th century science. Be firm but polite, and start doing it now – time to keep up the pressure.
Below are the details for the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts and some related people - what you waiting for!
SAINSBURYS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTS
1st Floor, Allington House
150 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5AE
Tel: 020 7410 0330
Fax: 020 7410 0332
General emails:
contact@gatsby.org.uk, gtep@gtep.co.uk, info@ashdenawards.org,
info@ashdendirectory.org.uk, teachersupport@gtep.co.uk,
ashden.directory@sfct.org.uk, headleytreasures@sfct.org.uk,
contact@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk,
info@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk
Senior People
Michael A Pattison CBE, Director - michael.pattison@sfct.org.uk,
m.pattison@sfct.org.uk; Tel 020 7410 7035
Mr Peter Hesketh, Deputy Director - p.hesketh@sfct.org.uk,
peter.hesketh@sfct.org.uk
Mr P Spokes, Finance Director - p.spokes@sfct.org.uk
Victoria Hornby, Executive - v.hornby@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7044
Dr Yvonne M Pinto, Executive - yvonne.pinto@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7131
M John Williams, Executive - john.williams@sfct.org.uk,
j.williams@sfct.org.uk
Miss Judith S Portrait, solicitor to the Sainsbury Family, trustee
Portrait Solicitors in Association with Denton Wilde Sapte
1 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1LF
Tel:(020) 7320 3888; Fax: 20 7404 0087
Email: judith.portrait@dentonwildesapte.com, jsp@dentonwildesapte.com
Andrew Cahn, trustee and advisor to the trusts; Director of Government and
Industry Affairs at British Airways ‹ andrew.t.cahn@britishairways.com
Professor John C Gray - leading Sainsbury advisor and trustee
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA
Tel. 01223 333 958 / 333 925; Fax: 01223 333 953
Email: john.gray@plantsci.cam.ac.uk
Other People
Hester Marriott – hester.marriott@sfct.org.uk, h.marriot@sfct.org.uk
Matthew Williams – m.williams@sfct.org.uk, matthew.williams@sfct.org.uk
Sarah Levander, PA to Hester Marriott and Matthew Williams
Tel: 020 7410 7047; Email: sarah.levander@sfct.org.uk
Rachid R'kaina
Tel: 020 7410 7121; Email: r.rkaina@gtep.co.uk
Laurence Cockcroft - l.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk, laurence.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk
Elaine Ponte - elaine.ponte@sfct.org.uk, e.ponte@sfct.org.uk
Sheelagh Urbanoviez
Tel: 020 7410 7129; Email: s.urbanoviez@gtep.org.uk
Karin Hooper, Administrator
Email: Karin.hooper@sfct.org.uk, k.hooper@sfct.org.uk
Danielle Jones
Tel: 020 7410 7044; Email: danielle.jones@sfct.org.uk
Liz Storer - Email: liz.storer@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7045
Bridget Cass - Email: bridget.cass@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7036
Jenni French
Tel: 020 7410 7123; Email: Jenni.French@sfct.org.uk
Jane Shepherd, jane.shepherd@sfct.org.uk, j.shepherd@sfct.org.uk
J Temple - j.temple@sfct.org.uk
Anne Weldon - anne.wheldon@sfct.org.uk
Mrs Margaretta Purtill - margaretta.purtill@sfct.org.uk
Christine Farry - christine.farry@sfct.org.uk
Wallace Heim – w.heim@sfct.org.uk, wallace.heim@sfct.org.uk
List of all SCFT related Emails:
contact@gatsby.org.uk, gtep@gtep.co.uk, info@ashdenawards.org, info@ashdendirectory.org.uk, teachersupport@gtep.co.uk, ashden.directory@sfct.org.uk, headleytreasures@sfct.org.uk, contact@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk, info@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk, m.pattison@sfct.org.uk, p.hesketh@sfct.org.uk, peter.hesketh@sfct.org.uk, p.spokes@sfct.org.uk, v.hornby@sfct.org.uk, yvonne.pinto@sfct.org.uk, john.williams@sfct.org.uk, j.williams@sfct.org.uk, judith.portrait@dentonwildesapte.com, jsp@dentonwildesapte.com, andrew.t.cahn@britishairways.com, john.gray@plantsci.cam.ac.uk, hester.marriott@sfct.org.uk, h.marriot@sfct.org.uk, m.williams@sfct.org.uk, matthew.williams@sfct.org.uk sarah.levander@sfct.org.uk, r.rkaina@gtep.co.uk, l.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk, laurence.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk, elaine.ponte@sfct.org.uk, e.ponte@sfct.org.uk, s.urbanoviez@gtep.org.uk, Karin.hooper@sfct.org.uk, k.hooper@sfct.org.uk, danielle.jones@sfct.org.uk, liz.storer@sfct.org.uk, bridget.cass@sfct.org.uk, Jenni.French@sfct.org.uk, jane.shepherd@sfct.org.uk, j.shepherd@sfct.org.uk, j.temple@sfct.org.uk, anne.wheldon@sfct.org.uk, margaretta.purtill@sfct.org.uk, christine.farry@sfct.org.uk, w.heim@sfct.org.uk, wallace.heim@sfct.org.uk
Judith S Portrait is the Sainsbury’s family solicitor and trustee for a number of their charities. In fact is one of the most significant players in this whole web of companies and charities. Judith runs Portrait Solicitors, a London legal firm embedded in the investment house of Denton Wilde Sapte. Below is a list of the people at Denton Wilde Sapte office at Chancery Lane where Judith is based. Why not send them a polite email so they can learn about the GM and animal issues surrounding Sainsburys and come to an informed decision over her activities with the Sainsburys Family Charitable Trusts.
Denton Wilde Sapte
5 Chancery Lane, Clifford's Inn,
London, EC4A 1BU.
T: 020 7242 1212, F: 020 7404 0087
E: info@dentonwildesapte.com, adrian.barr-smith@dentonwildesapte.com, caroline.bell@dentonwildesapte.com, shereen.billings@dentonwildesapte.com, catherine.bingham@dentonwildesapte.com, marian.boyle@dentonwildesapte.com, daniel.burge@dentonwildesapte.com, philip.chong@dentonwildesapte.com, neville.cordell@dentonwildesapte.com, ken.dearsley@dentonwildesapte.com, nicholas.fitzpatrick@dentonwildesapte.com, mark.gay@dentonwildesapte.com, michelle.george@dentonwildesapte.com, mark.gill@dentonwildesapte.com, nicholas.graham@dentonwildesapte.com, christopher.hanson@dentonwildesapte.com, raichel.hopkinson@dentonwildesapte.com, john.hull@dentonwildesapte.com, michael.kerr@dentonwildesapte.com, rod.kirwan@dentonwildesapte.com, cindy.leslie@dentonwildesapte.com, simon.levine@dentonwildesapte.com, mark.pring@dentonwildesapte.com, bonella.ramsay@dentonwildesapte.com, michael.ridley@dentonwildesapte.com, john.rosenheim@dentonwildesapte.com, askandar.samad@dentonwildesapte.com, scott.singer@dentonwildesapte.com, elizabeth.tout@dentonwildesapte.com, nicholas.west@dentonwildesapte.com, john.worthy@dentonwildesapte.com, cathy.wilcox@dentonwildesapte.com, alan.williams@dentonwildesapte.com, jerry.katzman@dentonwildesapte.com, rory.mcalpine@dentonwildesapte.com
This action alert is provided for educational and informational purposes to facilitate lawful and peaceful protest. Please be polite in all communications, and please forward this action alert on.
Sainsburys Action Alert – Part 3
Please forward on.
The Sainbury family is still the single, most influential force in the supermarket that bears their name. There is no way to get away from the fact that the Minister for Science, Lord David Sainsbury and his numerous kin & in-laws have a strong say in the company.
Less well known is the mechanisms they use to exercise that power – there is some direct holding of shares, but a lot of it is tied up in the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts. These charities are basically a set of tax blags and fronts for the family. On the surface they are nice and friendly to the environment. For example, the Ashden Trust promotes the union of environmentalism and the performing arts.
Lots of hot air and little of real effectiveness. Not surprising that once you dig a little bit deeper you find strong links to Sainsbury’s GM interests intertwined with this lot.
For example, Prof John Gray, the Cambridge plant geneticist, a director of a company holding Lord Sainsburys’ GM patents, is a director of some of the trusts.
The money for the activities of the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts comes from the family’s large shareholdings, in particular in Sainsburys itself, where Lord Sainsburys own pet fund, the Gatsby Trust, owns a whopping 5% of the supermarket.
So as well as being shareholders in Sainsburys, the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts are also connected to GM itself. And if that was not bad enough, the Gatsby and Linbury trusts are also massive donors to Oxford University – with grants running to the hundreds of thousands pounds. And guess what, the Gatsby Trust gives money to no less than the plant sciences dept at Oxford University…. Mmmh.
So, whether you are opposed to the building of the new Oxford animal laboratory (for more info see www.speakcampaigns.org.uk) or opposed to GM contaminated milk in Sainsburys, or just against GM poisoning our food chain in general, then it is time that this link in the chain was held up to be accountable.
Please get ringing, faxing, emailing and writing your disgust at the activities of the Sainburys Trust, and ask them to stop funding research in to genetically modified plants, to put pressure on Sainsburys PLC to get milk from GM fed cattle of their shelves and to stop funding Oxford University as long as it insists on carrying on in barbaric 19th century science. Be firm but polite, and start doing it now – time to keep up the pressure.
Below are the details for the Sainsbury’s Family Charitable Trusts and some related people - what you waiting for!
SAINSBURYS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTS
1st Floor, Allington House
150 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5AE
Tel: 020 7410 0330
Fax: 020 7410 0332
General emails:
contact@gatsby.org.uk, gtep@gtep.co.uk, info@ashdenawards.org, info@ashdendirectory.org.uk, teachersupport@gtep.co.uk, ashden.directory@sfct.org.uk, headleytreasures@sfct.org.uk, contact@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk, info@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk Senior People
Michael A Pattison CBE, Director -
michael.pattison@sfct.org.uk, m.pattison@sfct.org.uk; Tel 020 7410 7035 Mr Peter Hesketh, Deputy Director -
p.hesketh@sfct.org.uk, peter.hesketh@sfct.org.uk Mr P Spokes, Finance Director -
p.spokes@sfct.org.uk Victoria Hornby, Executive -
v.hornby@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7044 Dr Yvonne M Pinto, Executive -
yvonne.pinto@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7131 M John Williams, Executive -
john.williams@sfct.org.uk, j.williams@sfct.org.uk Miss Judith S Portrait, solicitor to the Sainsbury Family, trustee
Portrait Solicitors in Association with Denton Wilde Sapte
1 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1LF
Tel:(020) 7320 3888; Fax: 20 7404 0087
Email:
judith.portrait@dentonwildesapte.com, jsp@dentonwildesapte.com Andrew Cahn, trustee and advisor to the trusts; Director of Government and
Industry Affairs at British Airways ‹
andrew.t.cahn@britishairways.com Professor John C Gray - leading Sainsbury advisor and trustee
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA
Tel. 01223 333 958 / 333 925; Fax: 01223 333 953
Email:
john.gray@plantsci.cam.ac.uk Other People
Hester Marriott –
hester.marriott@sfct.org.uk, h.marriot@sfct.org.uk Matthew Williams –
m.williams@sfct.org.uk, matthew.williams@sfct.org.uk Sarah Levander, PA to Hester Marriott and Matthew Williams
Tel: 020 7410 7047; Email:
sarah.levander@sfct.org.uk Rachid R'kaina
Tel: 020 7410 7121; Email:
r.rkaina@gtep.co.uk Laurence Cockcroft -
l.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk, laurence.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk Elaine Ponte -
elaine.ponte@sfct.org.uk, e.ponte@sfct.org.uk Sheelagh Urbanoviez
Tel: 020 7410 7129; Email:
s.urbanoviez@gtep.org.uk Karin Hooper, Administrator
Email:
Karin.hooper@sfct.org.uk, k.hooper@sfct.org.uk Danielle Jones
Tel: 020 7410 7044; Email:
danielle.jones@sfct.org.uk Liz Storer - Email:
liz.storer@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7045 Bridget Cass - Email:
bridget.cass@sfct.org.uk; Tel: 020 7410 7036 Jenni French
Tel: 020 7410 7123; Email:
Jenni.French@sfct.org.uk Jane Shepherd,
jane.shepherd@sfct.org.uk, j.shepherd@sfct.org.uk J Temple -
j.temple@sfct.org.uk Anne Weldon -
anne.wheldon@sfct.org.uk Mrs Margaretta Purtill -
margaretta.purtill@sfct.org.uk Christine Farry -
christine.farry@sfct.org.uk Wallace Heim –
w.heim@sfct.org.uk, wallace.heim@sfct.org.uk List of all SCFT related Emails:
contact@gatsby.org.uk, gtep@gtep.co.uk, info@ashdenawards.org, info@ashdendirectory.org.uk, teachersupport@gtep.co.uk, ashden.directory@sfct.org.uk, headleytreasures@sfct.org.uk, contact@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk, info@woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk, m.pattison@sfct.org.uk, p.hesketh@sfct.org.uk, peter.hesketh@sfct.org.uk, p.spokes@sfct.org.uk, v.hornby@sfct.org.uk, yvonne.pinto@sfct.org.uk, john.williams@sfct.org.uk, j.williams@sfct.org.uk, judith.portrait@dentonwildesapte.com, jsp@dentonwildesapte.com, andrew.t.cahn@britishairways.com, john.gray@plantsci.cam.ac.uk, hester.marriott@sfct.org.uk, h.marriot@sfct.org.uk, m.williams@sfct.org.uk, matthew.williams@sfct.org.uk sarah.levander@sfct.org.uk, r.rkaina@gtep.co.uk, l.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk, laurence.cockcroft@sfct.org.uk, elaine.ponte@sfct.org.uk, e.ponte@sfct.org.uk, s.urbanoviez@gtep.org.uk, Karin.hooper@sfct.org.uk, k.hooper@sfct.org.uk, danielle.jones@sfct.org.uk, liz.storer@sfct.org.uk, bridget.cass@sfct.org.uk, Jenni.French@sfct.org.uk, jane.shepherd@sfct.org.uk, j.shepherd@sfct.org.uk, j.temple@sfct.org.uk, anne.wheldon@sfct.org.uk, margaretta.purtill@sfct.org.uk, christine.farry@sfct.org.uk, w.heim@sfct.org.uk, wallace.heim@sfct.org.uk Judith S Portrait is the Sainsbury’s family solicitor and trustee for a number of their charities. In fact is one of the most significant players in this whole web of companies and charities. Judith runs Portrait Solicitors, a London legal firm embedded in the investment house of Denton Wilde Sapte. Below is a list of the people at Denton Wilde Sapte office at Chancery Lane where Judith is based. Why not send them a polite email so they can learn about the GM and animal issues surrounding Sainsburys and come to an informed decision over her activities with the Sainsburys Family Charitable Trusts.
Denton Wilde Sapte
5 Chancery Lane, Clifford's Inn,
London, EC4A 1BU.
T: 020 7242 1212, F: 020 7404 0087
E:
info@dentonwildesapte.com, adrian.barr-smith@dentonwildesapte.com, caroline.bell@dentonwildesapte.com, shereen.billings@dentonwildesapte.com, catherine.bingham@dentonwildesapte.com, marian.boyle@dentonwildesapte.com, daniel.burge@dentonwildesapte.com, philip.chong@dentonwildesapte.com, neville.cordell@dentonwildesapte.com, ken.dearsley@dentonwildesapte.com, nicholas.fitzpatrick@dentonwildesapte.com, mark.gay@dentonwildesapte.com, michelle.george@dentonwildesapte.com, mark.gill@dentonwildesapte.com, nicholas.graham@dentonwildesapte.com, christopher.hanson@dentonwildesapte.com, raichel.hopkinson@dentonwildesapte.com, john.hull@dentonwildesapte.com, michael.kerr@dentonwildesapte.com, rod.kirwan@dentonwildesapte.com, cindy.leslie@dentonwildesapte.com, simon.levine@dentonwildesapte.com, mark.pring@dentonwildesapte.com, bonella.ramsay@dentonwildesapte.com, michael.ridley@dentonwildesapte.com, john.rosenheim@dentonwildesapte.com, askandar.samad@dentonwildesapte.com, scott.singer@dentonwildesapte.com, elizabeth.tout@dentonwildesapte.com, nicholas.west@dentonwildesapte.com, john.worthy@dentonwildesapte.com, cathy.wilcox@dentonwildesapte.com, alan.williams@dentonwildesapte.com, jerry.katzman@dentonwildesapte.com, rory.mcalpine@dentonwildesapte.com This action alert is provided for educational and informational purposes to facilitate lawful and peaceful protest. Please be polite in all communications, and please forward this action alert on.
Narwal Stimson