Not Good.

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Not Good 4 U.

By Uncle Monty.

Photos By Jill Ferguson

& Alex Albion.

Part 1 of 2.

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Making my unannounced visit to London's disabled

 homeless charity called "GOOD 4 YOU," its man-

aging director Francois Greeff, 52, seemed nervous

and confused by my unexpected and sudden presence

right at his "charity" door to quiz him upfront about

what some have called his "bogus charity."

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Bogus or not, Francois Greeff is a White Afrikaaner

from South Africa. His surname Greeff is pronounced

like the word "grief." But no pun, intended! He suffers,

so he says, from mental illness and bipolar disorder.

He was homeless on the streets of London when he

returned to the UK from South Africa's Stellenbosch

University and was without any kind of job or

 means of support. 

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Now standing in front of me at his home-cum-charity,

he'd seen me taking photos outside and he swiftly came

 to his already wide open door to find out what was

 going on. As soon as he stepped in the doorway, I

fired three or four photoshots of him before he could

even blink an eye. One of those shots is seen in the

above caption image of him with his smiling face that

soon turned grim. Along with him quickly becoming

 nervious and confused has I said, when he found out

why I had come to his SW London Aston Road door.

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Francois Greeff, who was a Big Issue vendor himself

like me, and who was still homeless back then, soon

became very disgruntled with John Bird's rotten rag.

Then at some point later Greeff took steps to start

his own "GOOD 4 YOU" homeless disabled charity

 that he started a number of years ago and seems

incapable now of establishing any public credentials

as a legitimate spokesperson for the UK diabled 

homeless. His "charity" at best is merely minuscule

and at worst a meaningless bunch of

 bullshit to excuse my French.

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Crude, Handwritten Sign About Front Door

At Good 4 You:  Please come and volunteer ...

It fiitted well with the overall dilapidated condition

of Greeff's cheap property at Merton's Aston Road.

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I was not invited inside to see what his charity was all

about, but I soon had the glass door slammed in my

open Anglican face without any further ado by Greeff.

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He said that whatever information he might give me

would probably be used by me against him. However,

he said that if I showed him letters, etc., complaining

about him and his charity - GOOD 4 YOU - he'd

be willing to give me details to explain all about 

what his charity was doing. Suffice say, that Francois

 Greeff soon slammed the door in my face out of fear,

I do believe, of me digging beyond the surface of his

probable calculating and evasive responses to my

queries and questions of him. What I saw of him

was not good 4 u or for me. If you ask me,

Greeff is just a crock of bullshit!!

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When I told him I was from thebiggerissue.org  he

 kept insisting I was from The Big Issue. I keep tell-

ing him that I was NOT. I'd prefer to be seen dead

before I'd be seen as any kind of representative of

 the rotten Big Issue - period.

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As I observed, I didn't see a single disabled person or

 even a homeless person of any kind there during my brief

visit with the so-called managing director of GOOD 4

YOU. Indeed, I didn't see or hear a single soul there!

Greeff seemed to be all alone sitting in his front room

tinkering on his PC when I first saw him before

he'd even seen me.

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"GOOD 4 YOU" Charity's SW London HQ.

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And odd as it seems, there wasn't even a disabled ramp

 or any railings for the disabled homeless to be helped to

get inside the front door with their manual wheel chairs

 or electronic mobility shoppers unless they just had plain

 old crutches to support them. I found it odd and curious

 that a so-called disabled homeless charity didn't even have

 a ramp or railing for its disabled clients, even though such

 is required and mandated by UK disability laws requiring

disabled access at GOOD 4 YOU. Such is obviously not

good for the disabled and is not good 4 u or me. And aside

 from such possible illegality for failing to provide disabled

 access, GOOD 4 YOU is located in a SW London

 residential neighbourhood at where the disabled

could hardly find it to be conveniently or easily

 located.  It seemed to me that Francois Greeff's

 "charity" was almost deliberately housed to

 discourage the disabled from visiting it

or to find him in the first place ...

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 He proudly states he has no paid staff.  It also

appears he has no payroll of any sort nor any

qualified disablity personnel to help the disabled

 homeless in any practical or meaningful way.

He relies entirely on volunteers, who in part 2 of

 this report will highlight some known grievances

 from at least one of them about Greeff and his

close to specious GOOD 4 YOU.

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At Where GOOD 4 YOU Disabled Charity Is Located.

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After being so rudely treated by Francois Greeff, I

stopped a couple of his nearby neighbours randomly

on Aston Road to ask them if they had seen any

 disabled folkz at GOOD 4 YOU. The lady almost

 opposite No. 36, at where Greeff permanently

resides, said she really knew nothing about the

charity and couldn't recall seeing the diabled there.

Next I stopped a retired bloke and he apologized to

 me saying he too knew nothing about GOOD 4 YOU

after living for years on the same Aston Road and

was sorry he couldn't help me further. Another lady

blankly refused to comment one way or another when

I asked her the same questions. What was amazing to

me was that it seemed clear the local neighbours didn't

 even know the existence of GOOD 4 YOU and/or

Francois Greef himself right on their own doorstep. I

 find that rather puzzling for a charity to say the least ...

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At best it would appear that GOOD 4 YOU is

 hopeless and amateurish and incapable and a kind

of duping entity hiding behind its UK charity status

or at worst a one-man-band with Francois Greeff

as its sole charity clown.

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In part 2 of Not Good 4 U, we'll take a peek at the board

of directors along with an ex-volunteer complaining bitterly

about Francois Greeff and further enqueries at the UK

Charity Commission regarding GOOD 4 YOU.

It should be quite a dandy part 2, I think.

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Do Good Works, Uncle Monty.

+Vigil of Apostles Simon & Jude, 2011.

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Feedback & Comments

allaboutthebigissue@gmx.co.uk

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PS. I first met Francois Greeff three years ago

at the CRISIS Conference with London Mayor

 Boris Johnson presenting his "Zero Rough Sleeping

 Plan," at London's Westminster Central Hall. There

he gave me his business card with the letters ACIS 

and an MA degree after his name. It was the first

time that I'd heard of his UK registered charity 

called "GOOD 4 YOU" for disabled people

who are homeless.

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According to the public records of The

 Charity Commission for England &

 Wales, GOOD 4 YOU carries the

charity registration number:

1123820

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 ~ JILL FERGUSON ~

My dear friend Jill Ferguson's great caption picture of

me, proudly shown at the top of the page, was taken

 by her last Saturday of me at the European Union

Congress. Jill and I had a good time listening to all

the pros and cons of demanding a EU Referendum

without any further ado for the British People. Sadly,

 Tory PM David Cameron tried to pull a fast one,

but even then more than 80 of his own MPs told

him more or less to go to hell!! Good 4 Them!!

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Jill, by the way, is an excellent photographer in

her own right. The pictures she took inside Cuba,

for instance, were superb and quite professional.

I was abit jealous, I must say ... especially since

I am an avid photographer who has taken some

5,000 images alone this year of all kinds

of people and events and things!

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Homeless Commemoration Service Is To Be Held

At St. Martin-in-the-Fields at London's Trafalger

Square, November 10th, 2011 at 11.00AM. All

Are Most Welcome. Refreshments Offered

After Annual Service.

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Totally Oblivious To The "Occupy London"

Protests Just Yards Away From His Big Issue

 Pitch, Long-Time Vendor Terry (Shown Below)

Stands & Carries on Regardless ...

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The Big Issue Foundation:

DON'T GIVE THEM A PENNY

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EU Congress w/Zac Goldsmith.

By Uncle Monty.

http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2011/10/eu-congress.html

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