Western Goals (UK)

Western Goals (UK) was initially the British branch of the American organisation the Western Goals Foundation.

The Western Goals (UK) branch was formed in May 1985 with Stuart Notholt & Andrew V R Smith (both leading lights in the Young Conservative Mionday Club) as its directors, and its initial Parliamentary Advisory Board included the Rev. Martin Smyth, the MP for South Belfast, who was also a Vice-President of the group. Western Goals was essentiall and anti-communist and ultra-conservative organisation, and soon took up campaigning against allegedly left-wing charities such as Oxfam and War On Want, and denouncing Labour Left candidates such as Ken Livingstone as 'extremists' during the 1987 election campaign.

In 1988 they helped organise a visit to Britain by Jonas Savimbi leader of Angola's UNITA rebel group, following which a nenber of their directorate visited Angola and South Africa.

The following year they expanded both their membership, activities and organisation, becoming the Western Goals Institute, independent of the US Foundation.