Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Steve Preston
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| Position: |
Chair of Trustees |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Ruth Ormston
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| Position: |
Director of Finance and Administration |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
44-48 Shepherdess Walk
London N1 7JP
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 207 324 5040 |
| Fax number: |
(+44) 2073245041 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
War on Want is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. War on Want believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering we have therefore chosen to give all relevant information that we consider neceessary for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues they are trying to influence, provide precise and comparable financial infomation on lobbying and have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow guidelines that result from consultations with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobby transparency as well as experts of US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision making processes of the European institutions and a list of those who carry out such activities on behalf of War on Want.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on http://www.act4europe.org/register or http://www.alter-eu.org.
The objects of the charity are:
1. To relieve global poverty however caused through working in partnership with people throughout the world
2. To promote human rights (as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations and International Labour Organisation conventions and declarations) and, in particular, such human rights which contribute to the relief of global poverty by all or any of the following means:
2.1 monitoring abuses of human rights,
2.2 relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse
2.3 promoting respect for human rights among individuals and corporations
2.4 raising awareness of human rights issues
3. To advance the education of the public into the causes of poverty and the ways of reducing poverty by conducting research and publishing and disseminating the findings of such research
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
1
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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On behalf of War on Want the persons listed below have had, during the reporting period, four or more contacts with members or officials of EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulations and decision making processes of the European institutions.
More than 20% of time:
n/a
Less that 20% of time (minimal time):
Y Khan - Palestine
None of the above have worked for any EU institution during that last five years.
Whilst War on Want is required to agree to the Code of Conduct that follows, we consider it to be wholly insufficient.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Development
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- Internal Market
- Taxation
- Trade
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
35 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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SOLIDAR
Seattle to Brussels network
BOND
ECCJ
Tax Justice Network
Labour behind the Label
Trade Justice Movement
Our World is not for Sale
Palestine Platform
Crisis Action
European Co-ordinationg Committee on Palestine
European campaign to end the siege of Gaza
Stop Arming Israel Coalition
Palestinian Boycott National Committee
Iraq Civil Society Initiative
Joint co-ordinating committee on Palestine
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
04/2011
-
03/2012
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Total budget:
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1,842,309
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€
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of which public financing:
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646,725
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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- DFID :
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356,874
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€
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- Comic Relief :
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289,851
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€
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from other sources: |
1,195,584
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€
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- donations:
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958,698
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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- Legacies :
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37,678
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€
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- Trusts & Foundations :
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186,191
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€
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- Income generation :
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13,017
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, War on Want has calculated that it spent €47006.12 in 2008-2009. This is broken down as follows:
Staff €13080.65
Travel €4165.62
Event costs €14226.97
Publications €6055.00
Overheads €7727.88
Networks €1750.00
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