General Political Fund
REPORT 2005
The General Political Fund (GPF) is separate from LabourLink
and was set up to allow the union to collect money from members
specifically to fund political campaigning work.
It is not affiliated to any political party, but the money
in the fund is used to support local campaigns, to give a boost
to our big national political campaigns, and to pay for political
advertising.
Much of the high profile political campaign work you see from
UNISON is paid for by the GPF. The GPF funded a TV recruitment
advert 'You're one in a million', launched in October 2004.
In the run-up to the local elections in May 2004, the GPF funded
adverts in areas where the BNP were standing as well as adverts
in national papers. But it's not just the big things that the
GPF funds.
All sorts of national and local projects and campaigns benefit
from receiving funding this way. Recently these have included:
. Anti-racist events
. The Durham Miners gala
. Local campaigns against the Private Finance Initiative
. Campaigns against council housing sell-offs - like the money
it made available to us in Edinburgh.
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