Covid Contracts
This is an incredible story of a company that didn't even exist, when Boris Johnson was announcing the first lockdown in the UK. Our favourite covid contract story.
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.
How the close family of cult leader Bruce Hales, were the real brethren winners, in the avalanche of covid contracts awarded to members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
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 & Sterilabs of Harrogate joining the party.
On the outskirts of South East London, across the Kent border, we find 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
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! Our research shows the global covid contracts easily pass £3 billion.
Unispace the PPE money making machine
Contracts awarded in California, Maryland and Louisiana.
How a snack & coffee wholesaler won big on supplying gowns
Bed & Mattress supplier switches to Lab testing
How to multiply your annual turnover x 8
Charities
The are circa 200 charities, registered with the Charity Commission that link to the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. The majority with 5 trustees each. Yet not one trustee is a female. Why?
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!
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
Harrow Gospel Trust seeking to convert an "old or should that be new" hall for financial gain
A "fag packet" look at the Brethren UK Finances, Covid Profits, Grace Trust, Oneschool Global UK, Rapid Relief Team.
The Grace Trust, we lift the lid, to look at how the brethren fund their OneSchool Global schools in the most tax efficient way.
Lobbying
Influencing elections, Plymouth Brethren members linked with donations to right wing think tank at election time.
Brethren Business
2SAN Global recruit former senior executives from the UKHSA Test & Trace team, as Whiley & Hales bank on "Worldies" to lead their business.
13 Brethren member companies who won Covid Contracts, were also claiming Furlough payments from govt in December 2020.
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.
Brethren member businesses often cross the globe between Australia & the UK, addresses link brethren member companies.
Profit or Prophet?
Part 1 Unispace/Sante
Part 2 Medco Solutions
Part 3 The next eight
The original covid contracts