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Profile of registrant

British Council

Identification number in the register: 17888758870-92
Registration date: 19/06/12 11:47:26

The information on this organisation was last modified on 06/06/13 11:52:46
The date of the last annual update was 06/06/13 11:52:46


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: British Council
Acronym: BC
Legal status: Charity
Website address: http://www.britishcouncil.org

Sections

Section: III - Non-governmental organisations
and more precisely: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Martin  Davidson
Position: Chief Executive

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mr  Andrew  Murray
Position: Director-British Council Benelux and EU office

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 10 Spring Gardens 
LONDON SW1A 2BN
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone number: (+44) 20 7389 4385
Fax number: (+44) 20 7389 6347
Other contact information:

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: To promote wider knowledge of the UK To develop a wider knowledge of the English Language To encourage cultural, scientific. technological and other educational co-operation between the UK and other countries To promote the advancement of education
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • global

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 9
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

First name Surname Start Date End Date
Gaelle CROISIER 12/09/12 19/06/13
Isabelle Van de Gejuchte 26/10/12 30/11/13

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


* representation of the British Council's interests vis-a-vis the European institutions
• monitoring of legislative proposals with impact on British Council fields of interest
• monitoring of Community programs and EU funds
• organisation of networking events

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Audiovisual and Media
  • Culture
  • Development
  • Education
  • Employment and Social Affairs
  • External Relations
  • Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
  • Humanitarian Aid
  • Justice and Fundamental Rights
  • Sport
  • Youth

Structure

Total number of members that are natural persons: 7,000
Number of member organisations:
Member organisations (Number of members) :
The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries):
  • AUSTRIA
  • BELGIUM
  • BULGARIA
  • CYPRUS
  • CZECH REPUBLIC
  • DENMARK
  • ESTONIA
  • FINLAND
  • FRANCE
  • GERMANY
  • GREECE
  • HUNGARY
  • IRELAND
  • ITALY
  • LATVIA
  • LITUANIA
  • MALTA
  • NETHERLANDS
  • POLAND
  • PORTUGAL
  • ROMANIA
  • SLOVAKIA
  • SLOVENIA
  • SPAIN
  • SWEDEN
  • UNITED KINGDOM

  • AFGHANISTAN
  • ALBANIA
  • ALGERIA
  • ARGENTINA
  • ARMENIA
  • AUSTRALIA
  • AZERBAIJAN
  • BAHRAIN
  • BANGLADESH
  • BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • BOTSWANA
  • BRAZIL
  • CAMEROON
  • CANADA
  • CHILE
  • CHINA
  • COLOMBIA
  • CROATIA
  • CUBA
  • EGYPT
  • ERITREA
  • ETHIOPIA
  • GEORGIA
  • GHANA
  • HONG KONG
  • INDIA
  • INDONESIA
  • IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
  • IRAQ
  • ISRAEL
  • JAMAICA
  • JAPAN
  • JORDAN
  • KAZAKHSTAN
  • KENYA
  • KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • KUWAIT
  • LEBANON
  • LIBYA
  • MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF
  • MALAWI
  • MALAYSIA
  • MEXICO
  • MONTENEGRO
  • MOROCCO
  • MOZAMBIQUE
  • MYANMAR
  • NAMIBIA
  • NEPAL
  • NEW ZEALAND
  • NIGERIA
  • NORWAY
  • OMAN
  • PAKISTAN
  • PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORY
  • PHILIPPINES
  • QATAR
  • RUANDA
  • RUSSIA, FEDERATION OF
  • SENEGAL
  • SERBIA
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SINGAPORE
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • SOUTH SUDAN
  • SRI LANKA
  • SUADI ARABIA
  • SUDAN
  • SWITZERLAND
  • SYRIA, ARAB REPUBLIC
  • TAIWAN
  • TANZANIA, UNITED RE UBLIC OF
  • THAILAND
  • TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
  • TUNISIA
  • TURKEY
  • UGANDA
  • UKRAINE
  • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
  • UNITED STATES
  • UZBEKISTAN
  • VENEZUELA
  • VIETNAM
  • YEMEN
  • ZAMBIA
  • ZIMBABWE
Complementary information: Kosovo

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.




EUNIC-

Financial data

Financial year: 03/2010 - 03/2011
Total budget: 860,667,203
of which public financing: 860,667,203
- from European sources:
- Procurement: 130,455,460
- Grants: 5,713,866
- from national sources: 243,641,411
- from local/regional sources:
Teaching and exams : 480,856,466
from other sources:
- donations:
- contributions from members:
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.