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There are unknowable numbers of fake charities amongst the 381723 currently registered, including highly exploitative charities, activists groups masquerading a
by easytiger 3y ago
There are unknowable numbers of fake charities amongst the 381723 currently registered, including highly exploitative charities, activists groups masquerading as charities, personal enrichment scams and so on.
I can think of many examples. A recent fun one was Ngozi Fulani's (of false allegations of racism) charity Sistah Space. Exposed using only publicly available information as a total grifting sham. Remember Camila Batmanghelidjh? There are god knows how many more like those two.
Hope Not Hate - a labour party activist controlled disinformation & propaganda generation entity run as a Ltd funded entirely by a special purpose charity entity bankrolled by people like Sigrid Rowsing. You will note their "work" receives almost not interaction on social media - which is the majority of their raison d'être
There are quite literally hundreds of "local" charities in places like Tower Hamlets that don't come close to meeting an normal persons definition of charity. They simply funnel money, often from local councils, to themselves.
I've also attempted to report a charity before here in the UK. The CC refused to accept my anonymous info and if my information didn't lead to a prosecution (and had to sign a document to this effect) that i would be prosecuted myself. That was some years ago, so the process may be different.
A great many charities raise money in a charity entity, then funnel all that money to a small Ltd controlled by a small number of people. The oversight, and legislation are appalling.
There are a number of "charities" in the UK alone claiming to be tackling "long covid".
Who knows how many evangelical church scams there are enriching some classic conman preacher.
- jack_riminton 3y agoYes I remember Batmanghelidjh, there's been a tendency within the public sector especially of being afraid of offending anyone to the point of tacitly allowing massive grifting and fraud. I remember once being on a video call with a quasi-VC but for social enterprises and I asked what I thought to be an entirely banal question: "how do you measure the effectiveness of the organisations you fund and ensure that they're not misappropriating funds?" I may as well have spat in their tea, the video call ended soon afterwards!
- easytiger 3y agoThat anecdote rings a lot of bells for me even in business and investing. Alas a vaguely cynical person can be proven right in an era of pseudo babble. Some very very modest achievements i might have had came in a room of people where I politely, professionally, pointed out amidst a silence that the offer they were about to buy was based on quicksand. If i had done so rudely they would have spent the money and fired me