Select Committee on Foreign Affairs Written Evidence


Annex A

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP 2003-04

  Corporate sponsorship helps to reduce the overall burden on the taxpayer of the costs of FCO activities at home and overseas.

  Guidelines have been produced to assist and encourage departments and Posts to seek sponsorship. They identify best practice on how to raise extra resources for FCO activities and incorporate Cabinet Office guidance on issues on propriety.

  In 2003-04 sponsorship agreements individually valued at £5,000 or more were signed in relation to the following:

2005 WORLD EXPOSITION, JAPAN

  The UK will operate a pavilion at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan for six months. Sponsorship has helped to make this possible.

INNOVATION UK, JAPAN

  Innovation UK is a year long campaign designed to showcase British excellence in science and technology.

Sponsorship has helped to facilitate informative and attractive campaign events and to secure key speakers.

ONE CAR, BE TOKYO

  Sponsorship in-kind of a Toyota car in the Embassy's Transport Pool.

RAISING AWARENESS OF EU ENLARGEMENT

  A Polish film, opened to the public, was shown at the FCO as part of raising awareness in the UK of EU enlargement.

QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, WARSAW

  Sponsorship helped to reduce the costs to the British Embassy, Warsaw, of this important annual event.

BRITISH FESTIVAL, WARSAW

  This event promoted the best of British ideas, innovation, business practice and EU experience, and celebrated British partnership with Poland.

OUR SHARED FUTURE: UK-AUSTRALIA

Future Leaders Dialogue 2004

  This event will provide two hundred Australian and British young people with the opportunity to explore the relationship between the two countries and some of the challenges facing contemporary Australian and UK society.

HAJJ DELEGATION

  An UK delegation of doctors and counsellors helped people attending the Hajj. Sponsorship partly offset the costs of the delegation.

Corporate Sponsorship

IN 2003-04 SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENTS VALUED AT MORE THAN £5,000 WERE MADE WITH THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES


ProjectTotal Forecast
Cost of Project
CompanySponsorship
Value

UK Pavilion, 2005 World
Exposition, Aichi, Japan£3,999,900 Inchcape plc£500,000
Toyota (GB) plc £330,000
British Nuclear Fuels plc £250,000
GKN plc £250,000
Shell Int'l Ltd £250,000
Toyota Financial Services (UK) Ltd £170,000
HSBC Securities Japan Ltd £105,712
Toyota Tsusho UK Ltd £15,000
Yazaki Corporation £15,000
Aisin Europe N.V £5,000
Denson Manufacturing UK Ltd £5,000
Denso Marston Ltd £5,000
Denso Sales UK Ltd £5,000
Johnson Controls Automotive
(UK) Ltd
£5,000
Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems Ltd £5,000
Toyoda Gosei UK Ltd £5,000
TRB Ltd £5,000
Innovation UK, Japan £350,000 Virgin Atlantic£100,000
BNFL £100,000
HSBC £50,000
Johnson Matthey £50,000
Oxford Instruments £25,000
Celoxica £25,000
AEA Technology £25,000
Transport Fleet,
British Embassy, Tokyo£15,000 Toyota Motor Corporation£15,000
Raising awareness of EU

enlargement
£26,102Stella Screen £26,102
Queen's Birthday Party, Warsaw£20,309 HSBC Securities Polska, SA£5,000
Provident Polska Sp.Z.o.o £5,000
GlaxoSmithKline £5,000
British Festival, Warsaw£37,000 BAE Systems (Poland) Sp. Z.o.o£5,000
Our Shared Future: UK-Australia £61,574 Macquarie Bank£10,262
Future Leaders Dialogue, Sydney Landerer & Co£8,210
BA £8,210
Hajj Delegation£65,000 Bombay Halwa Ltd£10,000
GlaxoSmithKline £5,000


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