Thread by @DamianHastie

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In Carnforth, Lancashire, you can find a gated business park, 21 Ltd companies are registered at this park. There is a church AKA as a meeting room. This is a modern day operation for the sect known as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
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Some of the companies registered have links to Covid Contracts, some have links to the family of church leader Bruce Hales. I don't think I have seen a gated business park with a church before where all the companies are linked to members of one sect.

The address is Oakwood Way, Carnforth Business Park, LA5 9FD. This is situated next to the M6 and from this viewpoint, you can see Havwoods & Castle Industrial Supplies. From another viewpoint you can see Strongdor.

You can also see the church/meeting room

The 21 companies are
Abacus Creative Resources
Castle Industrial Supplies
Castle Industrial Supplies Holdings
Creative Blue Acorn
Creative Blue Holdings
Graftmaster (Dissolved)
The Hardwood Floor Store
Havwoods
Havwoods Australia
Havwoods Global
Havwoods Global Holdings

HFSCO
OEW Property LLP (dissolved)
Silverdale Projects (dissolved)
SJG Partnership
Strong Developments
Strongdor
Strongdor Holdings
2SAN Global
2SAN Global Holdings
Vetro Global

This is Grant Shapps visiting Havwoods in 2014 along with local MP David Morris.

Covid Contracts - Castle Industrial Supplies is the only direct winner supplying Warrington Council with PPE. Dig a little deeper though and the links to other contracts are significant, through directors and family.

One of the shareholders of Havwoods Global Holdings is Dean Hales (son of Sydney based church leader Bruce). Dean Hales owns Medco Solutions in Australia & the US. The UK Medco Solutions won more than £1 billion in Covid Contracts

Charles & Gareth brothers of Dean, owned/own Unispace/Sante Global who won over £900 million in UK contracts. Dean is also a shareholder in 2SAN, who won a contract to supply LFT's in Australia

2SAN have since Covid been included on a framework agreement in the UK.
2SAN global have also earlier this year, employed four of the senior leader team of the famous Test & Trace. (All non brethren).

What is fascinating is how this small little sect have a gated business park with its own church & through their registered companies at this site & their directors, how they link to so many of the other smaller covid contracts, won by other brethren member owned businesses.

1) Strongdor director Timothy Devenish is the nephew of covid contract winner Julian Bushnell of Selkent Medical who won a 610k contract for PPE to Hampshire Council. Selkent share premises with Dean Hales Ox Tools

2) Peter Bricknell Finance Manager at Havwoods is the Uncle of Rolf Turner, Rolf is the brother of Ben Turner, Ben is the father in law of Michelle Donelan MP and won a £4 million DHSC contract through his Toffeln business.

3) Simon Whiley is a director of many companies on the business park. He is a former director of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. He has many links to contracts a) Total Protection (UK) owned by cousins the Calders in Northampton. They won a contract with Guys & St Thomas

b) Baca Safety also owned by his cousins, won a contract for 100k of PPE with North Lincolnshire council.
c) Whiley was a director of Strategic DB group with Garth Woodcock. Woodcock won contracts with Oska Care (NHS Scot) & Orcagel (Leeds Council) worth approx 1.1 million

d) Whiley was a director of the Bible & Gospel trust with Bernard Reiner, a member of the Reiner family owned Bryson Products who won £3.9 million PPE contract with DHSC & William Hathorn who is father in law of Chris Glass of Agile Medical who won £18 million Guys & St Thomas

4) 2SAN employee Rory Glass is the nephew of Kenny McMullan of Creative Activity Group who won £17 million of PPE contracts in Northern Ireland.

Will come back to contract links but have to mention Strongdor Sales Director Terry James is the brother in law of Simon Whiley. He is also an ex director of family business Sterling GP Ltd, pic below is Rishi Sunak visiting Sterling GP last year

Back on the contracts Oliver Whiley (father of Simon) is the director of a number of the companies on the park. He is also the brother in law of Jonathan Andrews of £4 million DHSC contract winner Blueleaf.
Oliver Whiley like his son connects to a number of contract winners.

Oliver Whiley is a director of Kent Dev LLP with, Michael Barter of £20 million N. Ireland PPE contract winners Techniclean, Andrew Critchley ex of contract winners Oska Care, Arrow County Supplies are also a director of Kent Dev LLP, Arrow won a contract with Bristol Council

This is just a sample of how the sect members are connected. Across the UK & Ireland there are approx 95 similar stories. They all link together in what is a small sect of approx 16-18k members in the UK. They are clearly extremely wealthy and have many links to local Tory MPs.

As usual I am not suggesting anything untowards in their business dealings. It is a fascinating sect that appears to be thriving in a commercial sense, though I do wonder if this is a commercial operation rather than a christian one 🤔

Finally an observation, very very few of the brethren females are in leading positions within the brethren companies. They are only named as directors of holding companies. We are in 2022 & the brethen member companies supply many nationally known

companies. I would question if these companies such as @NandosUK, @McDonalds, @Hilton, @IHGhotels, @marksandspencer, NHS, Universities, Football Clubs (@LFC @SouthamptonFC & even our own UK Govt procurement believe equality matters with their suppliers?