The Daily Telegraph has analysed the the reports and accounts for the past three years of the 14 charities which comprise the Disaster Emergency Committee for each the past three years.
In each case we sought to identify the highest paid employee in each of the
past three years.
In several cases the charities named the executives, even though they were not named in the documents.
In one case, Merlin, it refused.
These are the findings:
In several cases the charities named the executives, even though they were not named in the documents.
In one case, Merlin, it refused.
These are the findings:
ActionAid
2010 £82,425 Richard Miller, executive director
2011 £84,651 Richard Miller, executive director
2012 £88,933 Richard Miller, executive director
Richard Miller joined ActionAid in 2004, after working for more than 20 years for Cafod, the Catholic aid charity.
He has a degree in politics and social policy and is a trustee of the Disasters Emergency Committee.
Using his blog on ActionAid’s website, he has been pressing the Coalition to enshrine its commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of Britain’s gross domestic product on aid to the developing world.
Age International
2010/11 £90,000 to £100,000 Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director General for International
2011/12 £90,000 to £100,000 Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director General for International
2012/13 £80,000 to £90,000 Chris Roles, Director of Age International
Michelle Mitchell is now the charity director general of Age UK and has been a repeated critic of the Coalition Government, particularly the treatment of the elderly in the National Health Service and the loneliness of pensioners in the countryside.
Chris Roles took over as the director of Age International in July 2012. He has also worked as a member of the senior management teams of Christian Aid and ActionAid.
British Red Cross
2010 £164,000 Sir Nick Young, chief executive
2011 £178,000 Sir Nick Young, chief executive
2012 £184,000 Sir Nick Young, chief executive
Sir Nick Young, a former City lawyer, is one of the longest serving charity chief executives in the UK, joining the British Red Cross as its chief executive in 2001, after running Cancer Support Macmillan.
Under Labour he sat on the NHS Modernisation Board, as well as the Office of the Third Sector advisory board between 2008 and 2011.
He has spoken before of how charities enjoyed a golden age under Labour.
He once said: “There was more money, more Government support and a greater sense of engagement in policy. The present Government talks about the big society, but there is not quite the same sense of involvement and certainly not the same amount of money.”
Cafod
2009/10 £80,074 Chris Bain, director
2010/11 £85,425 Chris Bain, director
2011/2 £87,567 Chris Bain, director
Chris Bain came to prominence when it emerged that he was sharing a flat rent-free with Paul Goggins, an MP who was caught up in the Parliamentary expenses scandal.
The pair had lived together for 11 years before the scandal broke in May 2009.
Mr Bain wrote an article on Conservativehome in 2011 in which he said that “Labour’s world leadership and domestic commitment on international development could not be faulted” and urged David Cameron to “learn the lessons of the past decade” and ask why the scale of Tony Blair’s ambitions “were not achieved”.
Care International
2009/10 £100,001 to £110,000 Geoffrey Dennis, chief executive
2010/11 £100,001 to £110,000 Geoffrey Dennis, chief executive
2011/12 £100,001 to £110,000 Geoffrey Dennis, chief executive
Geoffrey Dennis has been chief executive of Care International since April 2004.
Before Care he was international director of the Red Cross, working in many of the world’s worst trouble spots, including Rwanda, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia.
He is a former economist and consultant who came in the charity sector after working on development issues in the private sector.
Christian Aid
2009/10 £107,867 Daleep Mukarji, director
2010/11 £119,123 Loretta Minghella, director
2011/12 £123,729 Loretta Minghella, director
Loretta Minghella started her career in financial regulation in 1990, and later headed up the enforcement law arm of the Financial Services Authority.
Ms Minghella was appointed as chief executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme in 2004 when Gordon Brown was Chancellor and she oversaw the payment of billions of pounds in compensation of victims of banks and other financial failures.
She was awarded the OBE by the Queen in the New Year’s Honours 2010, shortly after she lobbied MPs on behalf of the world’s poor.
Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, is the charity’s chairman.
Concern Worldwide
2010 £60,000 - £70,000 Rose Caldwell, executive director
2011 £60,000 - £70,000 Rose Caldwell, executive director
2012 £60,000 - £70,000 Rose Caldwell, executive director
Rose Caldwell qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG and has 14 years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector.
After qualifying, she worked in the private sector as an internal auditor and then as a management consultant with BDO Stoy Hayward.
She also had spells as assistant director with Refugee Housing Association and was also a director of finance for a Northern Irish charity which provided care and accommodation to people with mental illnesses and learning disabilities
Islamic Relief
2010 No employee received over £60,000
2011 No employee received over £60,000
2012 N/A
Dr Mohamed Ashmawey has been Islamic Relief’s chief executive since 2011, after a spell as chief executive of IR USA.
He also served on the boards of Mercy International and the Islamic Society of North America and was president of the Muslim Arab Youth Association in the late 1990s.
The charity’s board of trustees is Ibrahim El Zayat, who holds positions in several Muslim organisations in Germany and Europe and regularly lectures on issues of integration and Muslim identity in European countries.
Merlin
2010 £90,000 to 99,999 One employee*
2011 £110,000 to £119,999 One employee*
2012 N/A
[* Merlin will not confirm the employee’s because of “a breach of confidentiality”]
Until July this year, Carolyn Miller had been chief executive of Merlin since 2005. Ms Miller quit after Merlin unveiled plans to merge into Save the Children. The new interim chief executive is David Alexander.
Ms Miller had previously worked as a Director at the Department for International Development and as Director of Programmes at Save the Children. She was awarded a CBE for her work in 2013.
Merlin has an annual income of £55m, as well as 3,700 staff across the world.
Oxfam
2009/10 £100,008 Barbara Stocking (11 months in post)
2010/11 £107,006 Dame Barbara Stocking
2011/12 £105,943 Dame Barbara Stocking
Dame Barbara Stocking, a former regional director of the National Health Service, joined Oxfam GB as director in May 2001.
Lady Stocking led Oxfam's response to humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, for the Tsunami and the Pakistan Earthquake before she left in March, to take up a post at Cambridge University.
She contributes regular video and written articles to The Guardian’s website.
Oxfam now has more than 750 shops in the UK, 6,000 staff all over the world and sister organisations in 13 countries. She was awarded a damehood in 2008.
Plan UK
2010 £90,001 to 100,000 Marie Staunton, chief executive
2011 £90,001 to 100,000 Marie Staunton, chief executive
2012 £90,001 to 100,000 Marie Staunton, chief executive
Marie Staunton, a trained human rights lawyer, was chief executive of Plan UK for a decade until late 2012. She had previously worked for as a deputy director at Unicef, a director at Amnesty International as as acting general secretary at Liberty.
Ms Staunton writes a blog on the Huffington Post and is also the British independent member on the management board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, which monitors racism and xenophobia across Europe.
Save the Children
2010 £133,744 A former director of programmes
2011 £162,220 Anabel Hoult, chief operating officer
2012 £168,653 Anabel Hoult, chief operating officer
Justin Forsyth, who was paid £163,000 in 2012, has been chief executive of Save the Children since 2010. He was previously director of strategic communications in Number 10 under Gordon Brown, when he was Prime Minister.
He was also adviser Tony Blair, when he was Prime Minister, on environmental and international developments in the Number 10 policy unit.
Before he joined Number 10 he was director of policy and campaigns at Oxfam GB, and was a major player behind the Make Poverty History in the run up to G8 meeting in Gleneagles in 2005.
Anabel Hoult, a former executive at Carphone Warehouse, joined Save the Children in 2010 from Pensions First, where she was offering analysis and advice on defined benefit pensions.
Tearfund
2010 £89,000 Matthew Frost, chief executive
2011 £90,000 Matthew Frost, chief executive
2012 £92,000 Matthew Frost, chief executive
Matthew Frost has been the chief executive of Tearfund since October 2005.
Previously he worked was head of strategy at the Department for Education and Skills under Labour from 2004 and 2005, after a five year spell as a consultant at McKinsey.
Mr Frost previously with international relief organisation Medair in Somalia and Afghanistan, where he established and directed Medair’s aid programme.
World Vision
2010 £93,263 Justin Byworth, chief executive
2011 £99,910 Justin Byworth, chief executive
2012 £95,988 Justin Byworth, chief executive
Justin Byworth has worked in international development for more than 20 years with international children’s charity World Vision in roles in Asia, Africa and the UK.
He previously spent eight years in Cambodia managing humanitarian and development programmes, including four years as a World Vision’s director there.
Mr Byworth is a graduate in ecology from University College, London and a published writer. He is an active member of his local church, keen mountain walker, runner and football supporter.
2012 £88,933 Richard Miller, executive director
Richard Miller joined ActionAid in 2004, after working for more than 20 years for Cafod, the Catholic aid charity.
He has a degree in politics and social policy and is a trustee of the Disasters Emergency Committee.
Using his blog on ActionAid’s website, he has been pressing the Coalition to enshrine its commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of Britain’s gross domestic product on aid to the developing world.
Age International
2010/11 £90,000 to £100,000 Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director General for International
2011/12 £90,000 to £100,000 Michelle Mitchell, Charity Director General for International
2012/13 £80,000 to £90,000 Chris Roles, Director of Age International
Michelle Mitchell is now the charity director general of Age UK and has been a repeated critic of the Coalition Government, particularly the treatment of the elderly in the National Health Service and the loneliness of pensioners in the countryside.
Chris Roles took over as the director of Age International in July 2012. He has also worked as a member of the senior management teams of Christian Aid and ActionAid.
British Red Cross
2010 £164,000 Sir Nick Young, chief executive
2011 £178,000 Sir Nick Young, chief executive
2012 £184,000 Sir Nick Young, chief executive
Sir Nick Young, a former City lawyer, is one of the longest serving charity chief executives in the UK, joining the British Red Cross as its chief executive in 2001, after running Cancer Support Macmillan.
Under Labour he sat on the NHS Modernisation Board, as well as the Office of the Third Sector advisory board between 2008 and 2011.
He has spoken before of how charities enjoyed a golden age under Labour.
He once said: “There was more money, more Government support and a greater sense of engagement in policy. The present Government talks about the big society, but there is not quite the same sense of involvement and certainly not the same amount of money.”
Cafod
2009/10 £80,074 Chris Bain, director 2010/11 £85,425 Chris Bain, director
2011/2 £87,567 Chris Bain, director
Chris Bain came to prominence when it emerged that he was sharing a flat rent-free with Paul Goggins, an MP who was caught up in the Parliamentary expenses scandal.
The pair had lived together for 11 years before the scandal broke in May 2009.
Mr Bain wrote an article on Conservativehome in 2011 in which he said that “Labour’s world leadership and domestic commitment on international development could not be faulted” and urged David Cameron to “learn the lessons of the past decade” and ask why the scale of Tony Blair’s ambitions “were not achieved”.
Care International
2009/10 £100,001 to £110,000 Geoffrey Dennis, chief executive 2010/11 £100,001 to £110,000 Geoffrey Dennis, chief executive
2011/12 £100,001 to £110,000 Geoffrey Dennis, chief executive
Geoffrey Dennis has been chief executive of Care International since April 2004.
Before Care he was international director of the Red Cross, working in many of the world’s worst trouble spots, including Rwanda, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia.
He is a former economist and consultant who came in the charity sector after working on development issues in the private sector.
Christian Aid
2009/10 £107,867 Daleep Mukarji, director 2010/11 £119,123 Loretta Minghella, director
2011/12 £123,729 Loretta Minghella, director
Loretta Minghella started her career in financial regulation in 1990, and later headed up the enforcement law arm of the Financial Services Authority.
Ms Minghella was appointed as chief executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme in 2004 when Gordon Brown was Chancellor and she oversaw the payment of billions of pounds in compensation of victims of banks and other financial failures.
She was awarded the OBE by the Queen in the New Year’s Honours 2010, shortly after she lobbied MPs on behalf of the world’s poor.
Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, is the charity’s chairman.
Concern Worldwide
2010 £60,000 - £70,000 Rose Caldwell, executive director
2011 £60,000 - £70,000 Rose Caldwell, executive director
2012 £60,000 - £70,000 Rose Caldwell, executive director
Rose Caldwell qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG and has 14 years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector.
After qualifying, she worked in the private sector as an internal auditor and then as a management consultant with BDO Stoy Hayward.
She also had spells as assistant director with Refugee Housing Association and was also a director of finance for a Northern Irish charity which provided care and accommodation to people with mental illnesses and learning disabilities
Islamic Relief
2010 No employee received over £60,0002011 No employee received over £60,000
2012 N/A
Dr Mohamed Ashmawey has been Islamic Relief’s chief executive since 2011, after a spell as chief executive of IR USA.
He also served on the boards of Mercy International and the Islamic Society of North America and was president of the Muslim Arab Youth Association in the late 1990s.
The charity’s board of trustees is Ibrahim El Zayat, who holds positions in several Muslim organisations in Germany and Europe and regularly lectures on issues of integration and Muslim identity in European countries.
Merlin
2010 £90,000 to 99,999 One employee*
2011 £110,000 to £119,999 One employee*
2012 N/A
[* Merlin will not confirm the employee’s because of “a breach of confidentiality”]
Until July this year, Carolyn Miller had been chief executive of Merlin since 2005. Ms Miller quit after Merlin unveiled plans to merge into Save the Children. The new interim chief executive is David Alexander.
Ms Miller had previously worked as a Director at the Department for International Development and as Director of Programmes at Save the Children. She was awarded a CBE for her work in 2013.
Merlin has an annual income of £55m, as well as 3,700 staff across the world.
Oxfam
2009/10 £100,008 Barbara Stocking (11 months in post) 2010/11 £107,006 Dame Barbara Stocking
2011/12 £105,943 Dame Barbara Stocking
Dame Barbara Stocking, a former regional director of the National Health Service, joined Oxfam GB as director in May 2001.
Lady Stocking led Oxfam's response to humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, for the Tsunami and the Pakistan Earthquake before she left in March, to take up a post at Cambridge University.
She contributes regular video and written articles to The Guardian’s website.
Oxfam now has more than 750 shops in the UK, 6,000 staff all over the world and sister organisations in 13 countries. She was awarded a damehood in 2008.
Plan UK
2010 £90,001 to 100,000 Marie Staunton, chief executive
2011 £90,001 to 100,000 Marie Staunton, chief executive
2012 £90,001 to 100,000 Marie Staunton, chief executive
Marie Staunton, a trained human rights lawyer, was chief executive of Plan UK for a decade until late 2012. She had previously worked for as a deputy director at Unicef, a director at Amnesty International as as acting general secretary at Liberty.
Ms Staunton writes a blog on the Huffington Post and is also the British independent member on the management board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, which monitors racism and xenophobia across Europe.
Save the Children
2010 £133,744 A former director of programmes
2011 £162,220 Anabel Hoult, chief operating officer
2012 £168,653 Anabel Hoult, chief operating officer
Justin Forsyth, who was paid £163,000 in 2012, has been chief executive of Save the Children since 2010. He was previously director of strategic communications in Number 10 under Gordon Brown, when he was Prime Minister.
He was also adviser Tony Blair, when he was Prime Minister, on environmental and international developments in the Number 10 policy unit.
Before he joined Number 10 he was director of policy and campaigns at Oxfam GB, and was a major player behind the Make Poverty History in the run up to G8 meeting in Gleneagles in 2005.
Anabel Hoult, a former executive at Carphone Warehouse, joined Save the Children in 2010 from Pensions First, where she was offering analysis and advice on defined benefit pensions.
Tearfund
2010 £89,000 Matthew Frost, chief executive 2011 £90,000 Matthew Frost, chief executive
2012 £92,000 Matthew Frost, chief executive
Matthew Frost has been the chief executive of Tearfund since October 2005.
Previously he worked was head of strategy at the Department for Education and Skills under Labour from 2004 and 2005, after a five year spell as a consultant at McKinsey.
Mr Frost previously with international relief organisation Medair in Somalia and Afghanistan, where he established and directed Medair’s aid programme.
World Vision
2010 £93,263 Justin Byworth, chief executive
2011 £99,910 Justin Byworth, chief executive
2012 £95,988 Justin Byworth, chief executive
Justin Byworth has worked in international development for more than 20 years with international children’s charity World Vision in roles in Asia, Africa and the UK.
He previously spent eight years in Cambodia managing humanitarian and development programmes, including four years as a World Vision’s director there.
Mr Byworth is a graduate in ecology from University College, London and a published writer. He is an active member of his local church, keen mountain walker, runner and football supporter.