Michael Gove - donations, sponsorship and remuneration - GMB

Michael Gove - donations, sponsorship and remuneration
Donor name
Type of
donation
Value
Accepted
date
Details
Christofferson, Robb &
Company (UK) LLP
Cash £5,000.00 23/05/2011 Fund Management: Co-founded by Richard Robb and Johan Christofferson
Manrows Ltd, 1 Manchester
Square
Cash £5,000.00 10/08/2011 Finance: Aluminium Trader, director Manny Weiss
Alan Bekhor Cash £5,000.00
Shipping magnate and former metals dealer: Owns 90% of Britmar (UK),
10/08/2011
Ranked 650th in ST Rich list with £110m
Alan Jacobs Cash £2,500.00 26/11/2009
Charles Pugh Cash £25,000.00 06/11/2009
David Cohen Cash £2,000.00 18/08/2011
David Meller Cash £1,500.00 06/11/2009 Sponsor of The Bushey Academy and The Harefield Academy in Hillingdon
Edward Lee Cash £1,500.00 26/11/2009 Executive Board of Conservative Friends of Israel
Finance: Co-founder of JRJ Group, a private equity investment company, and
Jeremy Isaacs Cash £3,000.00 10/08/2011 former head of Lehman Brothers’ Europe and Asia operations. 751st on ST
Rich list with wealth of £95m
John Burns Cash £2,000.00 18/08/2011
Malcolm Offord Cash £2,500.00
Senior Partner of Charterhouse Capital Partners. Deals include Tussauds,
26/11/2009
Coral and Acromas (Saga and The AA)
Martin Calderbank Cash £150,000.00 01/05/2009
Michael Davis (Mick) Cash £7,500.00 18/08/2011
Former founding partner of Private Equity House Stirling Square Capital
Partners. Founded Agilitas Partners mid-market private equity firm in 2010
Energy: Chief Executive of Xstrata, the FTSE 100 mining company. A donor to
Pargav, Adam Werritty's vehicle. 871st on ST Rich list with £80m.
Nick Leslau Cash £2,000.00
Property: ST Rich list ranked 371st with wealth of £185m. Took over 21 failed
10/08/2011 Southern Cross Care Homes through Prestbury Investments Holdings, 14
now run by Methodist Homes, 7 by Royal Mencap.
Romie Tager QC Cash £1,500.00 06/11/2009 Barrister in Commercial and Property Law
Steven Noe Cash £2,000.00 18/08/2011
Hilda Worth
Cash
Cash
£1,500.00
£2,000.00
26/11/2009 Internet: wife of Marc Worth, founder of fashion trand and analysis website,
10/08/2011 Worth Global Style Network, sold for £142m. Marc and brother on ST Rich list
United Jewish Appeal
Federation, Sherman Campus
(honorarium of £12,260)
Speak at
events
held by
UJAF
£2,492.58 24/09/2009
Surrey Heath Conservative and Unionist Party - pre-Michael Gove
Annabel's (Berkeley Square) Ltd Cash £2,000.00 09/04/2005 Exclusive Mayfair Nightclub: donation for Gove's election campaign
Benjamin J Goldsmith Cash £2,000.00 04/04/2005 Son of the late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith and brother of Zac Goldsmith
Caroline B Knowles
Cash
Hospitality
£1,400.00
£1,750.00
08/11/2003
The London Basement Co Ltd, in Administration
29/04/2005
Christopher J Smith Cash £5,000.00 09/04/2005
Claridge's Hotel Ltd
Cash
Cash
£2,600.00
£3,060.00
19/06/2004
Luxery Hotel: Directors Stephen Alden, Carole Walker
08/11/2003
DC Leisure Management Ltd
Cash £1,600.00 07/11/2003
Cash £1,200.00 19/06/2004
Exclusive Hotels (London) Ltd Cash £1,400.00 08/11/2003 Hotels: Giuseppe Pecorelli, Daniel Pecorelli
Gertler Properties Services Ltd Cash £5,000.00 02/04/2005 Real Estate: Zacharias Gertler
Henry Lumley Cash £2,500.00 04/04/2005
Leisure Services: Stephen Philpott, Sandra Dodd, Timothy Hewett, Peter
Kirkham. Ultimate owner are fund managers, Sovereign Capital Partners,
investors in Education through Alpha Plus, SENAD, esg and Paragon. Named
education investor of the year 2010 and 2011.
Finance: Ranked 645th on ST Rich list with wealth of £112m. Owned and sold
Insurance company, Edward Lumley Holdings. Now runs investment and
property group Lumleys.net and owns Windlesham golf club in Surrey.
Manro Haydan Trading Cash £10,000.00 10/02/2005 In liquidation. Manny Weiss an ex-director
Robert R Potter OBE Cash £1,500.00 04/06/2001 Leisure: Owner of Lakeside Leisure Group
Red Fig Ltd Cash £2,000.00 04/04/2005 Technology Group, now called ETV Productions Ltd. Director Mark Cullen
Zacharias Goldsmith Cash £2,000.00 09/04/2005 Son of the late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith and brother of Ben Goldsmith

Surrey Heath Conservative and Unionist Party - Michael Gove elected 5 May 2005
Aidan Heavey
Cash
Cash
Cash
£10,000.00
£10,000.00
£25,000.00
15/04/2010
Founder and chief executive of Tullow Oil. Ranked 679th in the ST Rich list
26/10/2010
with £106m
16/09/2011
Bansols Beta Ltd, The
Courtyard
Cash £3,000.00 29/11/2011 Dominos Pizza Franchisee, a Moonpal S Grewal company
Cash £3,750.00 21/06/2005
Cash £1,250.00 18/11/2007
Barry W Price
Sponsorsh
ip
Cash
£450.00
£250.00
18/11/2007 Dolphin Head Group Holdings PLC, Commercial Lettings & Development and
Residential Development.
19/01/2009
Auction
prizes
£1,300.00 31/07/2009
Caroline B Knowles Cash £240.00 11/06/2005 The London Basement Co Ltd
Clifford Gundle Cash £1,750.00
Founder of Aurum Fund Management, now run by son Kevin Gundle, a
24/02/2007
founding trustee of ARK
Colourflow Production Ltd, 189
Lynchford Road
Cash £1,739.00
Design and Print company, now in liquidation, directors are Charnjit Grewal, Martyn
10/11/2008
Straford, Gursharon Grewal
Conrad R Sturt
Auction
prizes
£700.00 31/07/2009 Conservative councillor and pub owner
Cash £575.00 25/09/2009
D & K Contracting Services Ltd Cash £2,500.00 13/11/2007 Building contractor: directors Alwyn Desouza, Anna Marie Desouza
David A Nickson Cash £1,050.00 16/11/2009 LLP Member: Invicta Film Partnership No. 37 and No. 22
Other services Company: director Shahrivar Mahmoud-Zadeh, also director,
Dilman UK Limited, C/O The
Associates Ltd
Cash £3,000.00
along with fellow donor Gavin Price (see Dolphin Head Group below), of
01/11/2011
Caspian Investment & Development Corporation, Azerbaijan's leading tissue
and nappy makers
Sponsorsh
ip
£3,350.00 05/01/2006
Dolphin Head Group Holdings Cash £3,772.00 27/11/2006 Property Development: directors Barry Price, Leslie Peaple, Gavin Price, James
PLC
Cash £3,144.00 18/11/2007 Stewart, Warren Price.
Cash £2,620.25 14/06/2008
Cash £2,890.50 10/11/2008
Auction
prizes
£1,100.00 10/11/2008
Hotels: Directors Hartini Hj Abdullah, Hasnah Hj Ibrahim, Haji Suharafadzil
Dorchester Hotel Ltd
Premises £1,030.00 16/11/2007 Haji Yusop, Junaidi Masri. Ultimate holding company, Ammar Holding
Auction
prizes
£1,440.00
Cooperatief UA, based in Saudi Arabia
10/11/2005
Edward L Bentall Cash £1,575.00 27/11/2006 Retail: Former chairman of Bentalls department store chain
Empire Direct Ltd
Sponsors
hip
Cash
£3,000.00
£1,600.00
16/06/2008
Retail company now in administration. Directors Jaswant Toor, Amarjit Singh,
18/11/2007 Madan Showan, Manohar Showan
Cash £1,200.00 07/11/2008
Gavin A Price Cash £2,350.00
Dolphin Head Group Holdings PLC, Commercial Lettings & Development and
12/06/2006
Residential Development.
Graham J Wooldridge Cash £1,293.75
Construction Services: demolition and groundworks, director of Wooldridge
25/09/2009
Contractors Ltd
Harriet Gundle Cash £1,750.00 24/02/2007
Henry Lumley Cash £5,000.00 16/02/2011
Finance: Ranked 645th on ST Rich list with wealth of £112m. Owned and sold
Insurance company, Edward Lumley Holdings. Now runs investment and
property group Lumleys.net and owns Windlesham golf club in Surrey.
John Dunsdon Cash £5,000.00
Property: Runs property investment company, Coldunell Ltd. Ranked 497th on
16/02/2011
the ST Rich List with wealth of £144m
Cash £3,430.00 23/10/2009
Cash £2,000.00 08/04/2010
Knight Security Ltd
Cash £1,207.90 10/11/2008 Security and Intelligence Company: Director Jeffrey Knight
Cash £1,600.00 01/12/2011
Cash £2,804.00 17/11/2010
Lawrence Alexander
Auction
prizes
£6,000.00 16/11/2009
Lifestyle Executive Vehicles Ltd,
The Courtyard
Cash £1,468.75 16/06/2008 Sale of Motor Vehicles: directors Terence Lewis, Jane Lewis
Cash £4,000.00 12/04/2007
London & Bath Estates Gp Ltd
Cash
Cash
£10,000.00
£2,000.00
25/04/2008 Development and Selling Real Estate: Kim Alexander Gottlieb, Annette Patricia
16/04/2010 Graham-Wood
Cash £5,000.00 04/04/2011
Cash £10,000.00 28/04/2010
Cash £10,000.00 05/09/2010
Magna Carta Club
Cash £15,000.00 14/09/2011 Conservative Business Club for Michael Gove

Magna Carta Club
Cash £15,000.00 06/10/2011
Cash £17,500.00 25/09/2009
Manrows Ltd, 1 Knightsbridge Cash £5,000.00 31/07/2009 Finance: Aluminium Trader, director Manny Weiss
Michael R Dalby Ltd
Moonpal S Grewal
MSG Commercial Ltd
New Feld Limited, Littleton
House
Norma Stephenson
Cash £900.00 30/06/2007
Advertising £800.00
Printing: Karen Dalby, Michael Roy Dalby
30/06/2007
Cash £500.00 11/06/2005 Pali Grewal is "world’s fastest pizza maker". Ranked 1,892nd on the ST Rich
Cash £1,225.00 10/11/2005 List worth £34m. Multi-store franchisee with Domino's pizzas and leading
Cash £2,868.00 27/11/2006 shareholder in Domino's Pizza UK. Deputy Chair of the constituency party in
Cash £7,000.00 04/03/2010 charge of membership and finance.
Cash £10,000.00 08/04/2010
Cash £7,675.00 17/11/2010
Cash £4,314.00 16/12/2011
Cash
Cash
£1,903.50
£3,878.00
19/06/2007
Restaurants: Moonpal Singh Grewal, Satnam Singh Grewal
18/11/2007
Sponsorsh
ip
£4,321.25 14/06/2008
Cash £2,856.50 10/11/2008
Sponsorsh
ip
£2,350.00 03/01/2006 Real Estate: Susan Gisella Bogard, David Neufeld - liquidated
Cash
Cash
£2,000.00
£4,644.00
03/07/2009
Local Guest House owner
16/11/2007
Oakley Court Hotel Ltd, Windsor
Road
Cash £1,500.00 30/06/2007 Hoteliers: Peter Stephenson
Paul Brett Cash £2,000.00 24/02/2007
Perfect Travel Ltd, 5 North End
Road
Cash £5,000.00 12/11/2009 Travel Agents: Anthony Feld, Leah Feld
Philip Shelley Cash £5,000.00 02/03/2010 Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, ex-top UBS banker
Robert J Paton Cash £5,000.00 08/02/2011
Robert R Potter Premises £7,000.00 25/11/2005 Leisure Complex: Bob Potter Leisure owner of The Lakeside Country Club
Robin Birley Cash £1,250.00
Owner of Mayfair private members club, 5 Hertford Street. Ex-director of Annabels
30/06/2009 nightclub and the son of previous owner, Mark Birley. With his sister on the ST Rich
List in 871st place with inherited wealth of £80m
Starbones Ltd, 3rd Floor Cash £5,000.00
Development and Selling Real Estate: Kim Alexander Gottlieb, Annette Graham
29/03/2011
Wood
Steve Gelsthorpe Cash £1,400.00 30/06/2007
Cash £10,000.00 10/08/2007
Strangers Gallery
Cash
Cash
£12,000.00
£5,800.00
23/05/2009
Conservative Business Club for Michael Gove
20/05/2011
Cash £730.00 06/12/2011
Cash £2,500.00 03/06/2005
Surinder Kandola
Cash
Cash
£405.00
£2,900.00
10/11/2005
Domino's Pizza franchisee
12/06/2006
Cash £1,000.00 27/11/2006
The London Basement Co Ltd
Cash £2,180.00 18/11/2007 Construction and conversion: Caroline Barbara Knowles, Robin Edward Knowles,
Michelle Knowles, Grant Lewis Egmore Frost, Michael Wiseman. Company in
Cash £1,058.00 27/11/2006 Administration
The Marlow Building Co. Ltd,
Upper Culham Farm
Wooldridge Contractors Ltd.,
Unit 17 Hall Grove Farm
Cash £1,100.00 30/06/2007 Property Development: Leigh Edwards, Russell John Edwards
Cash £1,322.00 15/09/2008
Donations on Register of Members' Interests but not on the Electoral Commission site
Conservative Business Club for Michael Gove
Construction Services: demolition and groundworks, directors Graham Wooldridge,
Alex Todd
Information Edge Ltd £5,000 2011 Software Development: director Vilosh Marion Brito and
John May £2,250 ?? Local Councillor ??
The Dental Centre £3,000 Dental Practice: directors Dr Rajni Rijal and Kapil Rijal
Luff Associates £3,000 Estate Agents: director Mary Luff
Anthony Spitz Clothing £1,732 Retail: Chairman of New and Lingwood
Digital Delivery Development
Ltd
£2,000 26/05/2010 Computer related: Director Gary Millner
John Spurling £5,000
Insurance: owner and chairman of PetPartners,a pet health insurance
25/03/2010
company.
Tim Eyles £2,000
Law: Managing Partner of TaylorWessing, advisers on M&A, private equity and
25/03/2010
corporate finance transactions
Joshua Rowe £2,500 25/03/2010

Michael Church
Ashok Shrestha
Frank Fogarty
Builders and Developers: Cove Construction. Also director of Forest Care, a Care
Home operator.
Nigel Long Longacre Nurseries
Chris Cowdray CEO The Dorchester Collection
Malcolm Harding Motor Mechanic: Director Harding Auto Services
George E S Robinson
Edmund Lazarus
Mark Florman
Adrian Beecroft
Harris Ventures Limited
Howard Leigh
Lewis Trust Group Ltd
Chris Mason
Chris Smith
Stanley Fink
Michael and Leola Lewis
IGP Investment
Finance: Co-founder of hedge fund, Sloane Robinson. Ranked 325th on the
ST Rich list with wealth of 215m and owns a stake in Prospect magazine.
Private Equity: Co-founded Bregal Capital LLP. Investments include Cognita
Scools, an independent schools group business and Morrison Utility
Services. Chairs the Investment Committee for the Mayor of London and is on
the Board of the London Development Agency
Private Equity: Co-founder of Maizels, Westerberg & Co and Senior Principal
of Private Equity company Doughty Hanson (owner Nigel Doughty was a
significant Labour donor). Has been Chairman of LM Glasfiber, manufacturer
of blades for wind turbines and had a stint as Senior Deputy Treasurer of the
Conservative Party. Chairman of the Centre for Social Justice and currently
CEO of the BVCA, the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.
Finance: Apax Partners, now chair of venture capital investment fund, Dawn
Capital. Helps run and invested in the Hull City Academy. Ranked 1320 in the
ST Rich list with wealth of £50m
Retail sale of Carpets: Lord Philip Harris of Peckham, Chair and Chief
Executive of Carpetright; Chairman and Sponsor of Harris Federation of
South London Schools, 15 Academy Schools
Finance: Founder of Cavendish Corporate Finance and past Treasurer of the
conservative party and Chair of the Leaders Group. Wrapped up in the Liam
Fox episode.
Retail: Owners of River Island clothing company, directors Simon Lewis,
Leonard Lewis, Bernard Lewis and Banjamin Lewis. Bernard Lewis and
Family ranked 56th in the ST Rich List with wealth of £1,150m also obtained
from property and hotels.
Hedge Fund: Chief Executive of International Standard Asset Management.
Former Chief Executive of the Man Group and godfather of the UK Hedge
Fund industry. Treasurer of the conservative party, Lord Fink is ranked 533rd
on the ST Rich list with a wealth of £120m
Investment: Founder of Oceana Investment Partners, a donor to Pargav,
Adam Werritty's vehicle. On a 2009 ST list of the 30 richest South Africans
with a value of R666m
Development of Building Projects: Directors Nathalie Dwek, Harry Black, Alexander
Dwek
Remunerated employment
Contract from Harper Collins to write historical biography: Rupert Murdoch is a director and the company is a subsidiary of News International
Income from publication of 'Celcius 7/7' published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, part of the Orion Publishing Group. Ultimate parent is French owned
Lagardere Group
Contract with the Times
Fees from the BBC for Newsnight and BBC News Dateline
Associate Editor of The House Magazine, published by Dods it is a weekly magazine relating to the House of Commons and managed by cross-party team
of MP's
Columnist and articles for "Building Magazine", owned by United Business Media who include Building Future Education as one of its companies, a
conference and exhibition company working for 'finance, procurement, design, construction and furnishing of education buildings'. amongst several other
publications and conference organisers
Contributor to Scotland on Sunday, right leaning Scottish Sunday newspaper, sister to The Scotsman and owned by Johnston Press. Chairman Ian Russell
is also chairman of Remploy and Advanced Power AG.
Mail on Sunday, owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published by Associated Newspapers
Standpoint - magazine published by the Social Affairs Unit, an independent think tank linked to the Institute of Economic Affairs, source of Thatcher's freemarket
thinking. Funded by Alan Bekhor.
Mentorn Ltd on behalf of Panorama
Liberty Bell for Channel 5 documentary
Gifts

Flowidea tickets £1,600
Research development
Boston Consulting Group Global Management Company
Sponsorship
The Parthenon Group
Anthony Neufeld, Newfeld Ltd
Unicorn Administration Ltd
Staff
Susannah Amoore
Frances Leslie
Rebecca Mellotte
Karen Sheerer
Agent
Chairman
Clubs and Societies
Finance: Director Henry Angest. Gave money to Atlantic Bridge, ranked 1,320 in the
ST rich list worth £50m. Chairman and Chief Executive of Arbuthnot Banking and extreasurer
of the conservatives.
Global Management consultancy Company. Advise on financial services, education,
healthcare and private equity.
Real Estate company now in liquidation. Previously director of companies such as
'Bendy Toys Ltd' and 'Male Order Grooming Ltd'
Finance: Wealth administration company. Directors Charles Filmer, Tom Singh,
Antonia Filmer, Christopher Holloway.
Senior Caseworker and Researcher at the House of Commons. Previously worked
for Theresa Villiers and for the Shadow Minister of Transport and Shadow Minister
for Culture, Media and Sport. MA in History (Soviet Studies).
Alan Cleverly, founder and CEO of the Genesis Initiative, a body that represents the interests of UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Also director
of ‘Corporate Governance Forum’ and ‘The Small Business Bureau’. The Genesis Initiative acts as the secretariat for the ‘All Party Parliamentary Small
Business Group’, chaired by Brian Binley with Margot James as the Secretary and Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market as President. Two donators to the
Surrey Health conservatives pop up as directors of the Genesis Initiative, Moonpal Grewal (MSG commercial) and Barry Price, Financial Director (Dolphin
Head Group Holdings PLC). The Policy Director of The Genesis Initiative is John May, also a director of The Small Business Bureau and also a
conservative borough councillor serving as Mayor of Surrey Heath in 2010/11.
Brian Binley MP is also a director of The Small Business Group Ltd, a company Alan Cleverly is also director of, along with another donator to Surrey
Heath, Kim Gottlieb (London & Bath Estates Group).
Moonpal Singh Grewal, "world’s fastest pizza maker". Ranked 1,892nd on the ST Rich List worth £34m. Multi-store franchisee with Domino's pizzas and
leading shareholder in Domino's Pizza UK. Chairman of the constituency party in charge of membership and finance. Director of MSG Cornwall Ltd; First
State Pizza Company Ltd; First State Realty Ltd; MSG Food Service Ltd; MSG Sandhurst Ltd; Bansols Beta Ltd; Delta Bravo Ltd; The Dane and the Indian
LLP; MSG Academy Ltd; The Genesis Initiative Ltd; Bansols 888 Ltd; Third State Pizza Company Ltd; Farnreal Ltd; Second State Pizza Company Ltd;
MSG Commercial Ltd and Alpha Realty Ltd.
Gove’s Parliamentary Breakfast Club, Organiser Alan Cleverly, OBE Tel: 01276 472468. President, Michael Gove, Vice presidents, Henry Lumley
(Edward Lumley Holdings, Lumley.net and owner of Windlesham golf club) and Bob Potter OBE (owner of Lakeside). Chairman Gordon Parris MBE, JP, expresident
of Surrey Heath Conservative Association and former Mayor, Deputy Chairman Conrad Sturt (conservative councillor and pub owner), Hon
Treasurer Gavin Price (director of Dilman UK Ltd, Caspian Investment & Development Corporation – Azerbaijan’s leading tissue and nappy makers and
director of Dolphin Head Group Holdings), Hon Secretary Cllr Richard Brooks deputy leader of Surrey Heath borough council. Claimed to be a ’non-political
club………to enable members of the business community to have strong links with their MP and local councillors’.
The Magna Carta Club, founded 1988 and membership restricted to 70. Honorary Secretary Alan Cleverly OBE, Parliamentary Sponsor Michael Gove,
MP.
Strangers Gallery, founded 1974, a luncheon club for conservative minded business and professional men and women residing or working in the Surrey
Heath Parliamentary Constituency. Honorary Secretary, Michael Church.
Conservative Policy Forum, political discussion group, Chairman Clifford Russell, Tel: 0777 983477
Conservative Women, Chairman Valerie White Tel: 01276 479223
Curzon Supper Club, Alan Cleverly, OBE Tel: 01276 472468