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==Activities==
 
==Activities==
 
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===Spinning for NCR===
In March 2009 while at [[FD Public Affairs]] Gilchrist worked on the account of NCR]] a longtime FD client.  Her name appeared alngside the NCR 'Director of Global PR', [[Richard Maton]]<ref>LinkedIn [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/richard-maton/8/b30/766 Richard Maton], accessed 13 February 2010</ref> on a news release announcing NCR's closure of its operation in Dundee<ref>NCR [http://www.ncr.com/about_ncr/media_information/news_releases/2009/march/031209.jsp NCR announces proposed restructuring in Dundee] News Release, March 12, 2009, accessed 13 February 2010</ref>
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In March 2009 while at [[FD Public Affairs]] Gilchrist worked on the account of US based firm [[NCR]] a longtime FD client.  Her name appeared alngside the NCR 'Director of Global PR', [[Richard Maton]]<ref>LinkedIn [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/richard-maton/8/b30/766 Richard Maton], accessed 13 February 2010</ref> on a news release announcing NCR's closure of its operation in Dundee<ref>NCR [http://www.ncr.com/about_ncr/media_information/news_releases/2009/march/031209.jsp NCR announces proposed restructuring in Dundee] News Release, March 12, 2009, accessed 13 February 2010</ref>
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===Blogging for the Centre for Policy Studies===
 
===Blogging for the Centre for Policy Studies===
  

Revision as of 16:25, 13 February 2010

Lucy Gilchrist is head of Westminster communications for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party[1] and on the Conservatives' Prospective Parliamentary Candidates List.[2] She maintains a blog at the Centre for Policy Studies and was listed as the 'Westminster Liaison' for the short lived think tank Social Justice Scotland, where her biographical note failed to mention either her role at the Conservative Party or her history as a lobbyist.[3]

Screengrab of People: Lucy Gilchrist, SJS website, 'This is Google's cache of http://www.cs360hosting.co.uk/sjs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=70. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 14 Dec 2009 19:55:47 GMT.', Retrieved 9 February 2010

Gilchrist was, until late 2009, a lobbyist with FD Public Affairs[4], and prior to that at LLM Communications. She first appeared on the APPC register with LLM in June 2005[5] shifting as the name changed to the hybrid FD-LLM in March 2007 and then to FD Public Affairs in September 2008.[6]

Activities

Spinning for NCR

In March 2009 while at FD Public Affairs Gilchrist worked on the account of US based firm NCR a longtime FD client. Her name appeared alngside the NCR 'Director of Global PR', Richard Maton[7] on a news release announcing NCR's closure of its operation in Dundee[8]

Blogging for the Centre for Policy Studies

Affiliations

FD Public Affairs | FD-LLM | LLM Communications | Centre for Policy Studies | Social Justice Scotland

Notes

  1. Matthew Moore Conservatives ponder further cuts to Scottish MPs, The Journal, Wednesday 03 February 2010, The Journal Issue 30
  2. Centre for Policy Studies Lucy Gilchrist's Blog, accessed 12 February 2010
  3. Screengrab of People: Lucy Gilchrist, SJS website, 'This is Google's cache of http://www.cs360hosting.co.uk/sjs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=70. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 14 Dec 2009 19:55:47 GMT.', Retrieved 9 February 2010]]
  4. 'The Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party has hired its first head of Westminster comms. The role has been taken by Lucy Gilchrist, who was vice president at FD Public Affairs.'('The week in lobbying', prweek.com, 03 December 2009, 12:16pm );See also FD Public Affairs, APPC Register Entry for 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009, Spin Profiles; APPC Register for 1 September 2009 to 30 November 2009, spinprofiles
  5. APPC Register June 2005-November 2005, Spinprofiles
  6. APPC Register Mar 2007 - May 2007; APPC Register Sept 2008 - Nov 2008
  7. LinkedIn Richard Maton, accessed 13 February 2010
  8. NCR NCR announces proposed restructuring in Dundee News Release, March 12, 2009, accessed 13 February 2010