Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
6
High-level Commission meetings
29
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Lumos Foundation (Lumos)
EU Transparency Register
849607914394-57 First registered on 10 Sep 2014
Goals / Remit
Lumos is an international non-governmental organisation, set up by the author J.K. Rowling that works to end the systematic institutionalisation of children around the world. Worldwide eight million children are living in orphanages or other form of institutional care, where their needs cannot be met and where they are at risk of severe harm, abuse and neglect.
Our vision is a world in which all children have the opportunity to grow up in a safe and caring family setting, or where there is no alternative, the specialist placements that meet all their needs, respect their rights and ensure they can fulfil their potential. We work to transform education, health and social care systems for children and their families and help children move from institutions to family-based care.
Lumos works in partnership with governments, professionals and carers, communities, families and children, to transform outdated systems that drive families apart. Together with our partners we replace institutions with community based services that provide children with access to health, education and social care tailored to their individual needs. This supports families to provide the loving care their children need to develop to their full potential and build a positive future for themselves. Lumos is a founder member of the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community Based Care, a member of the Global Alliance for Children and the Global Partnership for Children with Disabilities in Development. Lumos also sits on the EU Civil Society Platform against Trafficking in Human Beings.Main EU files targeted
Lumos is actively following:
- the implementation and monitoring of the ESIF at national level via the Community Living for Europe: Structural Funds Watch initiative;
- the ongoing reflection process on the future of the EU post-2020, including the next Multiannual Financial Framework, and new financial instruments for internal and external funding;
- the post-Cotonou process and resulting new agreement between the EU and ACP;
- implementation of the new European Consensus for Development, particularly with regards to child rights;
- the European Solidarity Corps;
- Brexit and any implications it may have for child rights and deinstitutionalisation in Europe;
- the successors to the EU Strategy Towards the Eradication of Trafficking in Human Beings 2012-2016 and the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020;
- the Public Consultation on the Comprehensive Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid 2012-2016;
and any other policy processes that may affect the transition from institutions to family and community based care in Europe and worldwide.
- European policies regarding unaccompanied minors
- Council of Europe strategy on the rights of the child 2016-2021Address
Head Office
Peninsular House
30-36 Monument Street
London EC3R 8NB
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Rue de l’Arbre Bénit 44
Brussels 1050
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 3 25% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
4.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
6 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 10 Oct 2018
Name Start date End Date Ms Xheni DANI 14 Dec 2019 12 Dec 2020 Ms Charlotte Boetticher 21 Sep 2019 19 Sep 2020 Ms Lilith ALINK 21 Sep 2019 19 Sep 2020 Ms Caroline ROSE 09 May 2019 09 May 2020 Ms Anna Maria WALRAVEN 30 Mar 2019 13 Sep 2019 Ms Irina PAPANCHEVA 19 Mar 2019 01 Apr 2020 Mr Serghei Sadohin 16 Jan 2019 16 Jan 2020 Ms Athina GIANNOUTSOU 29 Sep 2018 11 Jan 2019 Ms Caroline ROSE 27 Apr 2018 27 Apr 2019 Ms Irina PAPANCHEVA 21 Mar 2018 19 Mar 2019 Ms Georgette Mulheir 09 Feb 2018 01 Feb 2019 Ms Charlotte Boetticher 03 Jan 2018 21 Dec 2018 Mr Alex CHRISTOPOUOLOS 03 Jan 2018 21 Dec 2018 Ms Caroline ROSE 01 Apr 2017 31 Mar 2018 Ms Georgette Mulheir 04 Jan 2017 31 Dec 2017 Ms Merel KREDIET 13 Sep 2016 07 Sep 2017 Mr Nolan QUIGLEY 13 Sep 2016 07 Sep 2017 Mr Roger SINGLETON 13 Sep 2016 07 Sep 2017 Ms Irina PAPANCHEVA 13 Sep 2016 26 Aug 2017 Ms Aneta RUDOLFOVA 06 Sep 2016 01 Apr 2017 Ms Georgette Mulheir 16 Dec 2015 14 Dec 2016 Ms Irina PAPANCHEVA 10 Sep 2015 08 Sep 2016 Ms Aneta RUDOLFOVA 09 Sep 2015 07 Sep 2016 Ms Merel KREDIET 09 Sep 2015 07 Sep 2016 Mr Nolan QUIGLEY 09 Sep 2015 07 Sep 2016 Mr Roger SINGLETON 09 Sep 2015 07 Sep 2016 Complementary Information
The five people who occasionally provide support to Lumos' EU work tend to spend less than 25% of their time on EU matters.
Of these three, one (Roger Singleton) is representing Lumos as co-chair of the aforementioned European Expert Group (EEG) for the 2017-2018 period.Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Irina Papancheva (EU Advocacy Manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Georgette Mulheir (CEO)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based care (EEG).
Link: https://deinstitutionalisation.com/
Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities (GPCwD)
Link: http://www.gpcwd.org/
Lumos hosts the secretariat of the Child Protection taskforce and is a member of the Taskforce on Inclusive Education.
Child Protection taskforce: http://www.gpcwd.org/child-protection.html
Inclusive education Taskforce: http://www.gpcwd.org/inclusive-education.html#/
Global Alliance for Children
Link: http://www.globalallianceforchildren.org/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
27,337 € (Source: European Commission’s Civil Society Organisations and Local Authorities (CSO-LA) Programme)
Other financial info
Figures taken from annual report 2016, in pounds sterling, and converted to euros using xe.com on 27/10/2017 - there may therefore be a small margin of error
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Structured Dialogue with European Structural and Investment Funds' partners group of experts#E03226 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3226 #Observer #C
Groups (European Parliament)
Lumos actively works with the Disability Intergroup and the Intergroup on Children’s Rights. We are also interested in establishing contact with Intergroup on extreme poverty and human rights, Intergroup on youth issues.
Communication activities
Lumos will be involved with/ organising the following events, policy implementation, communications activities:
- Actively monitoring the implementation of the Regulation 1303/2013, via the Community Living for Europe: Structural Funds Watch initiative, ensuring correct implementation of the ex-ante conditionality that dictates that structural funds may not be used to support institutions, but should be used to support the transition from institutional to community based care.
- Lumos will attend the European Forum on the rights of the child in November 2017
- Submit contributions to the consultations mentioned in the previous section, and any others with relevance to Lumos’s work
- Organise a conference on the Economic Case for deinstitutionalisation in Brussels in early 2018 (TBC)
- Organise a conference in Summer 2018 on child protection at international level (TBC)Other activities
Lumos is a children’s rights organisation working to end the institutionalisation of children worldwide. We work in partnership with governments, professionals and carers, communities, families and children, to move from outdated systems of institutional based care to family and community-based systems. We are a founding member of the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community Based Care.
The EU plays a pivotal role in changing attitudes and shifting systems of care and support from institutional to community-based services. However, large sums of European funds have in the past been used to renovate existing institutions and build new ones. While the intentions of these processes were good, they have failed to understand that institutions cannot provide proper environments in which to raise children.
Lumos therefore has and continues to lobby for changes in legislation which will ensure that EU funds support the reform of the care systems, instead of being used to maintain outdated and harmful institutional models of care. In this regard, Lumos has lobbied the European Institutions to ensure that European Structural Funds will be used to dismantle institutions and replace them with community-based care services. The Ex-Ante Conditionalities, including 9.1 on social inclusion, which were included in regulation 1303/2013 on the Structural Funds, represent a huge step forward in this regard. Lumos now continues its EU advocacy work to ensure that these ex-ante conditionalities are implemented, and also advocates more broadly to ensure that not only the Structural Funds, but all EU internal and external funds, support the transition from institutions to family based care.
Lumos also advocates towards the European Institutions on policy initiatives that may accelerate, threaten or otherwise influence the shift from institutional to community-based care, both inside and outside the EU.- Meetings
Meetings
29 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 27 Jun 2022 Location Videoconfernce Subject Consolations with Youth Organisation on the Youth Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Dec 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Discussion on Youth Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 May 2021 Location Online Subject The Strategy on the Rights of the Child Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Iris Abraham (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Mar 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Exchange of Views on the Transition from institutional to Community-based Care. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli Portfolio Equality Attending - Eva Gerhards (Cabinet member)
- Silvan Agius (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Feb 2021 Location Video Meeting Subject Childrens' rights / support. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Portfolio Crisis Management Attending - Kasia Jurczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Aug 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Protection of children Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Portfolio Crisis Management Attending - Adela Kabrtova (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jul 2020 Location Brussels Subject Child care reform in Covid 19 crisis and in next MFF Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi Portfolio Neighbourhood and Enlargement Attending - Maja Kocijancic (Cabinet member)
- Katri Teedumae (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 May 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Children in migration Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas Portfolio Promoting the European Way of Life Attending - Catherine Sustek (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Apr 2020 Location Skype meeting Subject Child guarantee Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Mar 2020 Location Brussels Subject Discussion on how best to ensure that the new European Commission delivers on children’s right to family life Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira Portfolio Cohesion and Reforms Attending - Francisco Barros Castro (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Feb 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject The rights of children in alternative care Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli Portfolio Equality Attending - Nora Bednarski (Cabinet member)
- Neil Kerr (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Discussion on the desinstitutionalisation of children and their right to community-living Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
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Date 25 Oct 2018 Location Brussels Subject Discussion on MFF Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Anna Gallo Alvarez (Cabinet member)
- Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to follow up on the event that was co-organized by EC and Lumos Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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Date 14 Jun 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to discuss preparations for the event with J.K. Rowling on children's rights Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Apr 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to discuss preparations for the event with J.K. Rowling on children's rights Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to prepare a joint event in June on children's rights Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Jan 2018 Location Brussels Subject Meeting to prepare the event with J.K. Rowling Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Nov 2017 Location Brussels Subject Child protection and family care in EU external action Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Oct 2017 Location Brussels Subject High-level discussion on the EU’s external action on "The link between trafficking and children in institutions" organized by European Commission and Lumos Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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Date 21 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject Protection of children in development cooperation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Nils Behrndt (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Feb 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Protection of institutionalized children in development cooperation Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Nils Behrndt (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Task Force for Better Implementation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Corina Crețu Portfolio Regional Policy Attending - Tomas Nejdl (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jun 2015 Location Meeting room BERL 12 floor Subject Meeting with LUMOS - Deinstitutionalisaton and the right of children (+ Mr Alonso Iriarte DG HOME, Ms Tuite DG JUST) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos Portfolio Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Attending - Polykarpos Adamidis (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Apr 2015 Location Bruxelles Subject Regional development and the de-institutionalisation agenda Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Corina Crețu Portfolio Regional Policy Attending - Dragos Bucurenci (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Mar 2015 Location BERL 11/400 Subject Presentation of LUMOS activities and policy recommendations Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides Portfolio Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Management Attending - Zacharias Giakoumis (Cabinet member)
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Date 06 Mar 2015 Location Brussels Subject Inclusive Education in the Europe 2020 strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Mar 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Children's rights, Child protection Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová Portfolio Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Attending - Daniel Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 19 Feb 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject EU development cooperation financing structure and the ending of the institutionalisation of children by transforming education, health and social care systems Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Irena Andrassy (Cabinet member)
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