The Institute for Policy Research

The Institute for Policy Research (Charity number: 285143) is a British charity which receives funds from conservative foundations and uses it to fund conservative think tanks. 
Its 2005 Accounts reveal grants to the Centre for Policy Studies (£157,000), the European Policy Forum (£2,500), Eurofacts (£36,500), Open Europe (£70,000) and Politeia (£10,000).The Institute for Policy Research Report and Accounts, Year ended 30 September 2005, Charity number 285143. Accessible via: http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/DocumentList.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=285143&SubsidiaryNumber=0&DocType=AccountList The Institute was created in 1982 via a trust deed dated 1 July of that year by Stephen Barclay, Dr. Arthur Levin and Simon Webley.The Institute for Policy Research, Declaration of Trust, 1 July 1982. The purpose of the Institute was said to be the 'advancement of public education and learning by research into Social Sciences management studies and economic policies and the publication of such research.The Institute for Policy Research, Declaration of Trust, 1 July 1982. p. 15.
==People==
===Trustees===
*Anthony Hugh Speaight KC (02 July 2019)
*Jennifer Mary Nicholson (02 April 2019)
*Jeremy Bradshaw (23 January 2003)
*Eric Koops a former member of the Territorial Army was a Parliamentary candidate for the Conservatives in Wakefield 1974; had been vice-president of the Political Committee of the Carlton Club 1988- (chairman 1984-88).Debretts People of Today Eric Koops Esq, LVO, accessed 3 May 2011 
====Former Trustees====
*Simon Webley is the Research Director of the Institute for Business Ethics and from 1969-98, he was director of the British-North American Research Association and UK director of the British-North America Committee. 
*Nicholas Finney who established The Waterfront Partnership (renamed Waterfront Public Affairs in 2007) and the Waterfront Conference Company in 1990 following a career in the ports industry. Both businesses were sold to Freshwater-UK in 2007. Waterfront conference Company Nicholas Finney, accessed 3 May 2011 Finney was Director General of The British Ports Federation (BPF) and the National Association of Port Employers (NAPE) and led the campaign for the abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme and for the privatisation of the Public Trust port authorities. He was a member of the UK’s Competition Commission (formerly the Monopolies and Mergers Commission) from 1993 to 1999.
==Projects==
==='Culture of litigation'===
In 1999, Global Futures (part of the LM network) 'launched the Litigious Society Project, which resulted in the first estimation of the cost of litigation to the British economy.'Global Futures Refusing to be terrorised - managing risk after September 11, Lloyds website, Mon 17 Jun 2002 Such an estimate was also contained in Frank Furedi's report published by the conservative Centre for Policy Studies, which suggests that this report may have been linked with the Litigious Society Project. Furedi notes in the acknowledgements that 'I am particularly grateful to Tracey C. Brown, co-ordinator of the Litigious Society Project for sharing so much of her knowledge of the subject.'Frank Furedi, ' Courting Mistrust: The Hidden Growth of a Culture of Litigation in Britain, Centre for Policy Studies, 1999, p. 2 Furedi also notes that another LM network associate Bruno Waterfield was the researcher on the CPS pamphlet and that 'support towards research for this study was given by the Institute for Policy Research.'
==Funding==
===Income===
The Institute for Policy Research has received funding from The Cayo Foundation, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, The David Young Charitable Trust, Duke of Marlborough's Charitable Settlement, The Federated Foundation, The G.R.P. Charitable Trust, The Morgan Charitable Foundation, Nigel Vinson Charitable Trust, The Peter Cruddas Foundation, The Weinberg Foundation, The W T J Griffin Charitable Settlement and The Wyford Foundation. The income received from the Nigel Vinson Charitable Trust between 2004 and 2010 is displayed in the table below.
{| 
 
Income sources of the Institute for Policy Research in £ sterling Data compiled from filings at the Charity Commission. 
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="21%"|Donor Organisation
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2004
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2005
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2006
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2007
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2008
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2009
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2010
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2011
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2012
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="7%" align="center"|2013
| align="center" style="background:goldenrod" width="9%" align="center"|Total known 2004-2013
|-
| align="center"|Cayo FoundationData based on a financial year ending on 30 September. 2004 Accounts no longer available from the Charity Commission. Identity of recipients of funding not disclosed in reports from 2009 onwards.
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|4,000 
| align="center"|4,000 
| align="center"|3,000
| align="center"|2,500
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|?
|-
| align="center"|The Charles Wolfson Charitable TrustData based on a financial year ending on 5 April. Identity of recipients of funding not disclosed in reports from 2009 onwards.
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|10,000
| align="center"|30,000 
| align="center"|5,000
| align="center"|75,000
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|?
|-
| align="center"|David Young Charitable TrustData based on a financial year ending on 5th April. Accounts for 2004-2007 no longer available on the Charity Commission website. No report produced for 2011-2013 as income levels did not reach the threshold.
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|25,000
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|25,000
|-
| align="center"|Duke of Marlborough's Charitable SettlementData based on a financial year ending on 5th April. Accounts for 2004-2007 no longer available on the Charity Commission website. No report produced for 2010-2013 as income levels did not reach the threshold.
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|250
| align="center"|250 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|500
|-
| align="center"|The Federated FoundationData based on a financial year ending on 31st March.
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|2,500 
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|2,500 
| align="center"|1,000 
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|1,000 
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|7,000
|-
| align="center"|Garfield Weston FoundationData based on a financial year ending on 5 April.
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|15,000
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|25,000
| align="center"|25,000
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|25,000
| align="center"|90,000
|-
| align="center"|G R P Charitable TrustData based on a financial year ending on 5 April.
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|5,000
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|3,000
| align="center"|3,000
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|2,000
| align="center"|13,000
|-
| align="center"|Morgan Charitable FoundationData based on a financial year ending on 31 December. Accounts for 2004-2007 no longer available on the Charity Commission website. 2013 Accounts not yet available.
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|3,000
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|3,000
|-
| align="center"|Nigel Vinson Charitable TrustData based on a financial year ending on 30 June
| align="center"|8,100 
| align="center"|7,050 
| align="center"|23,000 
| align="center"|70,800 
| align="center"|72,800 
| align="center"|29,400 
| align="center"|27,850 
| align="center"|21,800
| align="center"|5,250 
| align="center"|63,300
| align="center"|329,350
|-
| align="center"|The Peter Cruddas FoundationData based on a financial year ending 31 March. Accounts for 2004-2007 no longer available on the Charity Commission website. No accounts submitted to the Charity Commission in 2011 and 2012 as income was too low to reach the threshold (£12,969 and £5,966 respectively). Expenditure, however, was much more significant (£1,260,425 and £853,367, respectively).
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|0
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|25,000
| align="center"|0 
| align="center"|25,000
|-
| align="center"|The W T J Griffin Charitable SettlementData based on a financial year ending 5 April. 
No accounts submitted to the Charity Commission in 2012 and 2013 as income was too low to reach the threshold (£755 and £984 respectively). Expenditure, however, was more significant (£83,151 and £78,654, respectively).
| align="center"|1,000
| align="center"|1,000 
| align="center"|1,000 
| align="center"|2,000 
| align="center"|2,000
| align="center"|3,000 
| align="center"|3,500
| align="center"|3,000
| align="center"|?
| align="center"|? 
| align="center"|16,500
|-
| align="center"|Total from known specific sourcesData from the Charity Commission
| align="center"|9,100
| align="center"|37,050
| align="center"|65,500 
| align="center"|105,800 
| align="center"|152,550
| align="center"|38,150
| align="center"|60,350
| align="center"|52,800
| align="center"|31,250 
| align="center"|90,300
| align="center"|?
|-
| align="center"|Total donations declared in IPR accountsData from the Charity Commission
| align="center"|308,700 
| align="center"|214,390
| align="center"|563,156
| align="center"|355,871 
| align="center"|363,549
| align="center"|402,602 
| align="center"|395,664
| align="center"|713,291
| align="center"|332,489
| align="center"|672,960
| align="center"|
|-
| align="center"|Total expenditure on research projects and support costs declared in IPR accountsData from the Charity Commission
| align="center"|309,665 
| align="center"|283,785
| align="center"|478,959
| align="center"|319,132 
| align="center"|484,351
| align="center"|335,717 
| align="center"|450,950
| align="center"|354,860 
| align="center"|499,500
| align="center"|501,750
| align="center"|4,018,669
|-|}
====2014====
It received $5,000 from the Abstraction Fund in 2014. Abstraction Fund, 990 Form, 2014 
===Grant recipients===
The main recipients of donations from the Institute have been the neoliberal think tank the Centre for Policy Studies and the Eurosceptic think tank Open Europe each of which received more than £1 million between 2004 and 2013. Other significant recipients have been a Eurosceptic newsletter called Eurofacts edited by Gerald Frost and Global Britain each of which has received in excess of £140,000 between 2004 and 2013.
====Grant recipients====
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Organisation 	2005 	2006 	2007 	2008 	2009 	2010 	2011 	2012 	2013 	2014 	2015 	2016 	2017 	2018 	2019 	2020 	2021 	2022 	Total 2005-2023
Centre for Policy Studies 	157,000 	297,000 	119,000 	241,751 	172,167 	229,000 	179,500 	185,500 	246,000 	254,000 	297,000 	295,500 	223,001 	125,000 	139,000 	50,000 	20,000 	52,500 	3,282,919
Civitas 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	3,000 	- 	- 	- 	0 	0 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	3,000
Commonwealth Exchange 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	4,750 	5,000 	 	 	 	 	 	 	9,750
Creating Communities 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	500 	 	 	 	500
Eurofacts 	36,500 	31,500 	25,782 	19,250 	14,700 	3,000 	4,000 	5,000 	5,000 	5,000 	10,000 	8,000 	3,000 	2,000 	2,000 	- 	 	 	174,732
European Foundation 	- 	- 	- 	- 	3,000 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	 	 	 	 	 	 	3,000
European Policy Forum 	2,500 	19,000 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	 	 	 	 	 	 	21,500
Futures 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	2,000 	0 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	2,000
Global Britain 	- 	23,730 	19,000 	17,850 	23,750 	23,000 	34,000 	0 	0 	55,000 	51,000 	37,925 	 	 	 	 	 	 	285,255
Historic Housing Association 	 	0 	10,000 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	27,500 	0 	 	 	 	 	 	 	37,500
Institute of Economic Affairs 	- 	- 	10,000 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	 	 	 	 	 	 	10,000
Manifesto Club 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	2,000 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	2,850 	2,700 	- 	2,090 	 	9,640
MigrationWatch 	- 	- 	5,000 	- 	4,500 	15,700 	15,010 	4,000 	- 	2,000 	5,000 	11,000 	11,100 	5,000 	3,000 	- 	 	 	81,310
New Culture Forum 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	0 	0 	5,000 	5,000 	10,000 	3,000 	- 	 	 	 	23,000
News-Watch 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	40,000 	40,000 	0 	65,000 	35,000 	30,000 	- 	- 	 	 	210,000
Open Europe 	70,000 	95,346 	127,000 	181,500 	105,000 	143,000 	113,000 	300,000 	201,000 	295,000 	175,000 	193,500 	208,500 	158,000 	136,500 	40,000 	15,000 	50,000 	2,607,346
Parents and teachers 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	9,500 	- 	- 	- 	104,500 	83,000 	197,000
Politeia 	10,000 	10,000 	10,500 	10,000 	12,500 	12,500 	5,000 	5,000 	5,000 	15,000 	10,000 	25,000 	3,000 	20,000 	- 	40,000 	 	 	193,500
Respublica 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	3,000 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	 	 	 	 	 	 	3,000
Taxpayers Alliance 	- 	- 	- 	10,000 	- 	2,500 	100 	- 	- 	0 	0 	135,000 	75,000 	53,500 	180,000 	117,500 	 	 	573,600
The Bruges Group 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	4,750 	5,000 	- 	5,000 	2,000 	2,000 	1,000 	 	19,750
Transport Watch 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	2,000 	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	 	 	 	 	 	 	2,000
Young Britons Foundation 	- 	- 	- 	1,000 	100 	16,250 	250 	- 	4,750 	4,750 	- 	- 	 	 	 	 	 	 	27,100
Total 	276,000 	476,576 	326,282 	481,351 	335,717 	450,950 	354,860 	499,500 	501,750 	672,750 	590,000 	785,925 	578,101 	404,350 	465,700 	249,500 	142,590 	185,500 	7,777,402
==People==
===2011===
Simon Webley | Eric Koops | Nicholas Finney
===2005===
Simon Webley (chairman) | Eric Koops | Nicholas Finney
===Other people===
Keith Boyfield an economist, specialising in competition and regulatory issues has worked for a variety of Think Tank and Policy Development clients including the Institute for Policy Research. He has also worked for a number of think tanks that have received grants from the IPR such as the Centre for Policy Studies, European Policy Forum, Institute of Economic Affairs and Open Europe. Boyfield has also worked for the British-North American Research Association an organisation on which one of the three trustees (Simon Webley) of the IPR has served.
==Contact==
===2011===
 
:D R MOORE
:GOSSMORE
:PEAT COMMON
:ELSTEAD
:GODALMING
:GU8 6DXCharity Commission Contact and Trustees, accessed 3 May 2011
===2005===
:Institute for Business Ethics
:24 Greencoat Place
:London
:SW1P 1BE
==Notes==
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