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Covid Contracts

Uncovering the links behind the covid contracts won in the UK.
COVID CONTRACTS

Plymouth Brethren Christian Church aka the Exclusive Brethren

Exposing the cult, led by Sydney based businessman Bruce Hales, The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church is a tiny sect, with circa 50,000 members worldwide.   
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The Rich List

The Open & Candid exclusive Plymouth Brethren Rich List. The in depth dive into the wealthy Plymouth Brethren Cult.
THE rICH LIST

Part: 1

​Starting the series, with the companies owned by Brethren members, we take a deep dive into the top three and expose an unusual family connection!
RICH LIST PART 1

Part: 2

Featuring Arpo Global, one of the UK companies that have taken on Private Equity investment & the corporate restructure of UBT
RICH LIST PART 2

Part: 3

Looking at the Bedford based Magee family, one half of the Reading based Parsons & a dive into the Barter & Browning families in Yeovil
RICH LIST PART 3

 Exclusive Brethren Finances

Over the next few weeks, we will be publishing a series of reports into the wealth of the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren in the UK. Research carried out over the last 3 months shows some quite astonishing numbers and how this secretive sect have amassed extreme wealth, whilst benefitting from their charitable status.

We will reveal the 400 companies with assets over £1 million, 80 of which are turning over £2.5 billion in total. A charity with over £60 million in assets, of which £46 million is cash. How 144 meeting rooms now have charitable status and circa £250 million in assets. Educational trusts raising funds for schools with over £50 million in assets. A brethren only retail empire turning over £30 million+ a year. At the core of this commercial cult is the the largest brethren company, the Universal Business team (UBT) turning over almost £100 million a year.

Open & Candid will also expose a number of inside experiences on this controversial sect, which will reveal how difficult it is to escape.
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The billion dollar mystery

Move over Medpro, make way for the incredible £950 million story of Medco Solutions! A company that simply did not exist at the start of the pandemic.
MEDCO SOLUTIONS

2San Test & Trace 

2SAN Global recruits 13 former senior executives from the UKHSA Test & Trace team, as Whiley & Hales bank on "Worldies" to lead their business.
2SAN TEST & TRACE

UBT sold

UBT (Universal Business Team) the major fund raiser for the PBCC, turning over almost £100 million in the UK alone, sold to a company with no assets! 
UBT SOLD
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Listen or watch the brilliant Get a Life podcast, produced in Canada. Giving a real flavour to life in the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren. A must listen
GET A LIFE PODCAST

Hales the real Covid winners

Over £3 Billion of the covid contracts awarded to Brethren members across the world, 85% of which, went to companies linked to the family of church leader, the elect Vessel, Bruce Hales
HALES FAMILY WINNERS

Open & Candid on Blackballed

Thanks to James DiFiore for inviting our founder Damian Hastie, on to his Blackballed podcast, to discuss the business & political links of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
BLACKBALLED

Trade together, Pray together

Sect companies & their meeting room, all fenced in, with the gate closed. Welcome to Carnforth, Lancashire, where the PBCC trade & pray together in their own charter village.
TRADE & PRAY

James De Fiore Blackballed Podcasts 

The excellent Blackball Media series by James De Fiore focusing on the Exclusive Brethren. Interviews with a number of ex members and their stories. 
BLACKBALL MEDIA

£2.6 BILLION
Covid Contract Winners from UK Government

Medco Solutions
Unispace Global* - Sante Group
Sterilab Services
Inivos
Origin Packaging
Clandeboye Agencies
Tower Supplies
Techniclean Supply
Accora
Agile Medical
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Creative Activity Group
Kingsbury Press*
Centrado Trading
Toffeln
Blueleaf
Bryson Products
Corecare Global
Carlton Packaging
Oakdene Services (1925)
Ascot Signs
Lion Safety


GDC Healthcare
Lindum Packaging
Halco Europe
Occura Healthcare
​CMT Group

Specialist Door Soultions
Oska Care
Selkent Medical
Yewdale Corporation
Eastpoint
Streamline Corporate
Innova Care Concepts
Springfield Supplies & Projects
Orcagel
Denka UK
SMI Int Group
Total Protection (UK)
Southgate Packaging
Acopia Group
Lovair
TGS (UK)


AES Industrial Supplies
Bronze Architecture
Fairfield Care Products
Arrow County Supplies
Aero Healthcare
Giftfinder
Baca Workwear & Safety
Klipspringer
Hornbeck Team
Archer Marketing
Castle Industrial Supplies
CID Products
Clad Safety
CPP Trading Group
Hallmark Workwear & Safety
Medaco
Onyx - Safepro Industrial Supplies
Oxford Safety Supplies
Protective Wear Supplies (PWS)
Springfield Business Papers
Tudor Environmental
Ureka Global
* sold after contracts awarded
COVID CONTRACTS

Brethren UK Finances

A "fag packet" look at the Brethren UK Finances, Covid Profits, Grace Trust, Oneschool Global UK, Rapid Relief Team
FINANCE

Canadian PPE Contract

Open & Candid have reported on over £2.6 Billion covid contracts wins in the UK, USA & Australia, Press Progress in Canada report on one awarded to an Oil Lubricants company!
CANADA PPE

Veracity Breaking Brethren - A Canadian documentary 

Breaking Brethren is a brilliant Canadian documentary, which airs the views of a number of ex members

Influencing Elections

Plymouth Brethren members linked to donations to right wing think tanks at election time.
INFLUENCING ELECTIONS

Profit or Prophet?

The astonishing Covid contract update for companies ran by members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, how they were awarded contracts worth £2.2 billion. The hundreds of connections that link 54 companies ran by members of the very small Plymouth Brethren Church members
COVID CONTRACTS

The Times

The Times report on the covid contracts awarded to the Plymouth Brethren, in conjunction with us here at Open & Candid. It is good to see some mainstream coverage
TIMES ARTICLE

Beckenham Charity

The remarkable links between the 5 trustees of the Albacore Gospel Hall Trust charity and the £2 billion pounds of Covid contracts awarded to 17 companies
BECKENHAM CHARITY

Michelle Donelan MP

Exclusive! The award of Government contracts, the Conservative MP for Chippenham Michelle Donelan, Young Britons Foundation, family ties, PPE contracts, a gospel hall, a 400 year old pub and at the heart of it the Plymouth Brethren
MICHELLE DONELAN

Testing, Testing £100, £200, £300 million

Covid testing is proving a real hit for two or maybe 3 companies, with Medco Solutions (surely one of the UK's fastest growing businesses) building on their PPE contracts and Sterilabs of Harrogate joining the party to take the Covid Contracts awarded to companies owned by Plymouth Brethren members to around £2 billion!
COVID TESTING

Grace Growth through PPE

Brethren charity reaps the award of the pandemic. The latest accounts from the Grace Trust show an increase in income of circa £25 million for 2020, driven by PPE trading
GRACE TRUST PPE

Original Prophet or Profit?

The remarkable story of 51 companies winning £1.3 billion of Covid-19 contracts
ORIGINAL CONTRACTS

Behind the Plymouth Brethren

A selection of videos from 1970's to the present day, where the Plymouth Brethren have featured in the media
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    • Part 1 - Profit or Prophet Unispace/Sante
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    • Part 3 Profit or Prophet The Next 8
    • Covid Contracts Original