foreign aid

[Gordon R]

There is little or no accountability. Money is paid out and disappears. Open to abuse - you bet your life on it.

[Sha Bu Le]

If I get another stranger coming up to me in the market square with "Hi guys" my elastic bands will stretch beyond recovery. Mrs SBL narrowly missed twotting one (half an inch) who got aggressive when she declined to donate. Told her she has to restart training. 

Seriously though they pursue you for everything from overseas aid to dubious home grown charities from utility companies to solar panels. 

The only ones we support are the sally bash and a couple of forces. They go about their business in a quiet way the way the law says they should. The rest are just bunch of yapping hyenas.   

[toxo]

9 hours ago, henry d said:

Same applies

So what you're saying is anyone can set up a charity shop and put up an Oxfam sign without paying for the privilege?

[oowee]

 

This is interesting from Wiki there are a whole list of charities suspected of funding terrorism including these two for the UK show there is some regulation and control but as some of these organisations get bigger the problem of compliance increases exponentially. As the service gets further away from control it's abuse is likely to follow. 

Human Appeal International[11]

United Kingdom

U.S. State Department

Employed Guantanamo detainee Boudella el Hajj - now cleared of all wrongdoing, American authorities have admitted that he was wrongly detained for over 6 years, and has been released.

Interpal[12]

United Kingdom

United States Treasury Department

Accusation by US Treasury Department (2003) British government's Charity Commission for England and Wales(2003) found no evidence to support allegations of connection to terrorism.[13] (Note: in 1997 Sunday Telegraph retracted accusations Interpal was run by Hamas activists[citation needed]; in 2003 the Board of Deputies of British Jews repeated such allegations, retracting them after it was sued by Interpal;[14] in 2010 Sunday Expressissued an apology and made an out-of-court settlement for libel for making similar allegations.[15])

[Vince Green]

1 hour ago, toxo said:

So what you're saying is anyone can set up a charity shop and put up an Oxfam sign without paying for the privilege?

Certainly its very easy to set up a charity

[henry d]

2 hours ago, toxo said:

So what you're saying is anyone can set up a charity shop and put up an Oxfam sign without paying for the privilege?

 

38 minutes ago, Vince Green said:

Certainly its very easy to set up a charity

No, to both.

[Rewulf]

2 hours ago, Vince Green said:

Certainly its very easy to set up a charity

 

1 hour ago, henry d said:

 

No, to both.

https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Helmets_(Syrian_Civil_War)#Partnerships_and_funding

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/funding_given_to_white_helmets_i

Didnt seem too hard for them to extract government and private finance, with virtually NO oversight on what the money was spent on.
Cant seem to find their charity commission number anywhere ....