Register of interests

Councillor Joel Charles

I, Councillor Joel Charles, a Councillor of Harlow District Council, set out below under the appropriate headings my interests, which I am required to declare under the Localism Act 2011 and the Council’s Code of Conduct and I have put “none" where I have no such interests under any heading.

Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

Councillors are required to register not only their own interests under this heading but also those of their husband or wife, civil partner or of any person with whom they are living as if husband and wife or as civil partners when such interests are known by them

1. Your employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on by you or those persons referred to above for profit or gain (includes any payments or benefits in kind which are subject to Income Tax).
Description of your employment activity
None
2. Any payment or provision of any other financial benefit (other than for your authority) made or provided within the last 12 months in respect of expenses your have incurred in carrying out your duties as a member, or towards your election expenses. This includes any payment or financial benefit from a trade union within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992
Name of Person or Body making Payments
Harlow Conservatives, towards my election expenses in May 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2024
3. A description of any contract for goods, services or works made between your authority and you or the persons referred to above (or a body in which you or they have a beneficial interest) and which has not been fully discharged
Description of Contract
None
4. Any land in your authority’s area in which you have a beneficial interest
Details
86 Jocelyns, Harlow, Essex, CM17 0BU
5. Any land in the authority’s area for which you or the persons referred to above have a licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy for a month or longer
Address/Description of Land Nature of Interest in Land
None -
6. Any tenancy where to your knowledge the landlord is your authority and the tenant is a body in which you or a person referred to above has a beneficial interest
Address/Description of Property Nature of Interest in Property
None -
7. The name of any person or body in which you or a person referred to above has a benefit interest in securities of that body where: See note 7
Details
None

Other Pecuniary Interests

Councillors are only obliged to register their own interests under this heading and do not need to include the interests of husbands/wives/civil partners or others

8. The name of the person who employs or has appointed you, the name of any firm in which you are a partner, and the name of any company for which you are a remunerated director.
Details
None
9. A description of any contract for goods, services or works made between your authority and you (or a body in which you or they have a beneficial interest) and which has been fully discharged within the last 12 months
Details
None

Registerable Non-Pecuniary Interests

Councillors are only obliged to register their own interests under this heading and do not need to include the interests of husbands/wives/civil partners or others

10. Your membership of or the fact that you are in a position of general management and control of any body: See note 10
Name of Authority Position
Harlow Conservative Association Member
Conservative Councillors Association Member
Fawbert and Barnard's Educational Foundation Trustee
Safer Harlow Partnership Council Appointee
Safer Essex Forum Council Representative
11. The name of any person from whom you have received a gift or hospitality with an estimated value of at least £50
Details
12 bottles of Redchurch Paradise IPA beer - Christmas Gift from HTS Group on 16 December 2020 - £18
Refreshments at the Eight Club in Moorgate provided by David Millar (Fieldstone Consulting Limited) – business development meeting on the 11th of August 2021 with the HTS Group (Michael Harrowven and John Phillips attended the meeting) and Damien Treanor, the co-owner and a company director of Errigal Contracts Limited – £60
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