David Sainsbury
 David Sainsbury    (businessman, politician) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | David John Sainsbury 24 October 1940 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | King's College (Cambridge), Columbia Business School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Anglican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parents | • Robert Sainsbury • (father) Lisa van den Bergh (mother) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Susan Carroll Sainsbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Sainsbury family, The Giving Pledge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour, Social Democratic Party (UK) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relatives | Alan Sainsbury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
UK billionaire, The Giving Pledge
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David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville is a British politician, businessman and "philanthropist".
He is associated withthe Labour Friends of Israel.[1]
Gatsby Charitable Foundation
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is an endowed grant-making trust, based in London, founded by David Sainsbury in [[1967]. One of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation's projects was Gatsby Project.[2] The Gatsby Project, which ran from 1996-2001, was a national programme to “facilitate community self-help” in low-income neighbourhoods. It was led by LSE Housing at the London School of Economics.
Anti-child abuse campaigner, Alun Roberts has written:
"On the face of it, the Gatsby Project, a distance learning project for residential child care workers, was a good thing – except that it was carried out with Peter Righton, who was an active member of the Paedophile Information Exchange and was convicted of possessing child abuse images in the early 1990s.[2]
Money for the Gatsby Project had been raised from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation by individuals including psychotherapist and social worker Janet Mattinson (previously at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations); Mary Joynson (director of Barnardo’s); and Reverend Nicolas Stacey (the former Director of Social Services in[ Kent], and a colleague of Lord Sainsbury and the pedophile Peter Righton).[2]
In 2006, Reverend Stacey said that during his tenure as Director of Social Services in Kent from 1974-1985 he "never once" uncovered abuse that warranted referral to the police. Reverend Stacey attempted to justify himself, saying that kids could be "manipulative" and make false claims. A few weeks after Reverend Stacey died in 2017, the [[BBC] linked his earlier remarks with Kendall House, a Church of England-run children's home in Gravesend where vulnerable girls were routinely medicated, restrained, and abused.[3]
