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Rees reveals who paid for his international trips
Marvin Rees received an undisclosed amount of money from Just Eat this year to be a guest speaker at an event for their staff in Bristol.
The speaking engagement in October during Black History Month has been revealed in the mayor’s register of interests which was updated on Wednesday evening.
Within his declared gifts are accomodation in New York from a pair of husband and wife philanthropists, and another philanthropist treating the mayor to hospitality at Ashton Gate for a Bristol Bears game.
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Rees was also paid an unknown advance from Picador and Pan Macmillan for his autobiography, My City, which is due to be published on June 20 2024 just a few weeks after he leaves City Hall when Bristol’s mayoral model comes to an end.
On top of his £86,439 salary for being the elected mayor of Bristol, Rees currently earns extra money for being a non-executive director of Clifton-based television production company Plimsoll and the chair of Manchester-based Core Cities UK, and receives an “honorarium” from the Washington DC-based 17 Rooms (the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation).
In his updated register of interests, Rees is also named as a consultant of the Diversity Advantage Project at UWE.
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Recent gifts and hospitality Rees has declared have included:
- return travel, accommodation and subsistence at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum Conference in Rwanda from the Local Government Association
- accommodation in Bordeaux from Bordeaux Métropole
- accommodation in New York from Terry and Lesley Khan
- return travel to New York from the Emerson Collective
- tickets to Bristol Rovers home game from Empire Fighting Chance
- ticket to the UK’s Real Estate Investment & Infrastructure Forum from Built Environment Networking
- two tickets to Bristol Bears match and dinner from Shabir Randeree
- dinner from 3Ci (the Cities Commission for Climate Investment)
A Just Eat spokesperson told Bristol24/7: “I can confirm that the mayor of Bristol took part in Just Eat’s Black History Month event at our Bristol office, to speak about his experience of being the first person of Black African heritage to be elected mayor of a major European city.”
Main photo: UNHCR
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