Showing posts with label GOOD 4 YOU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOOD 4 YOU. Show all posts

11/10/11

Charities.

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Tick Box Charities. By Uncle Monty.
Graphics By Alex Albion.
Part 1 of 2.

For the most part, they're basically "Tick Box Charities"
that tick all the right boxes to first get approved by
The Charity Commisssion for England and Wales.
Once they're granted their UK legal charitiable status,
it is oftentimes just a "cash cow" for such charities that
frequently offer little more than tokenism to those they
help under their otherwise so-called charity work
 that in many cases are of little or no value to the
individual in need or to the society at large.
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Thus, more and more charities proliferate and spawn
with the uncontrollable growth of the British charity
industry now standing at a staggering 160,000+
registered charities seeking, of course, your gifts
 and cash donations in the name of  their "good
cause." They'll bleed you dry for all they care!
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Such "good causes," we are told to believe, are em-
bodied in Pigface Anthony John Bird's The Big  Issue
 Co. Ltd., and in iffy Francois Greeff's GOOD 4
YOU. Both of them are good at ticking the right
 legal boxes, but oftentimes provide only semantics
rather than serious and concrete help to those they
claim to be helping! Their prime motive seems to be
 to keep milking the cash cow for all its worth and,
of course, to be sure to always tick the right boxes
 as charities that are concerned with their own
survival at all costs. All too many charities have
become a law unto themselves with their con
games and publicity gimmicks to get the public
to support their useless charity aims.
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From high street Charity Shops to Charity
Chugger - otherwise "legalized street muggers" -
 to Charity Runs to Charity Appeals they invade
our life like blood suckers out to drain us of our
 last penny while they laugh all the way to the bank
at our expense. Yet, the British folkz still seem
 to be suckers for charities that exploit the emotion
and goodness of those who give. We are gluttons
 for sob stories, too. And charities are demonically
good at manufacturing sob stories to fit their greedy
need to make more money from the gullible
public who give a whooping 54 billion quid to
UK Charities per annum. Plus, like The Big Issue's 
 pigface John Bird, many charities have literally 
squandered millions of quids over the years either 
on their stupid and smug ideas or for some useless
and grandiose pet projects of their's.
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Many Charity Shops have now become nothing more than
commercial businesses that clutter all too many UK high
streets. They compete against for profit businesses while
manipulating their non-profit status. Thus, regular businesses
are handicapped against such charity outfits that have been
transformed in recent years from old fashioned used clothes
 and what have you to shops now selling an array of brand
new commercial goods like they're John Lewis or Harrods.
 There's nothing at all "charity" about them except their names.
 Plus, the exhorbitant prices that charity shops sometimes
 charge for donated items are nothing more than rip-off
 prices in the name of "helping" such charities.
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One of the worst offenders is Oxfam, which made 5 million
quid alone the other year thru their shops by just selling
 donated old books and LPs.  SCOPE is another offender
that seem to have turned their shops into mini-antiques
marts and charge exhorbitant selling prices for vintage
furniture and decorative artifacts that are more expen-
sive in some cases than regular antiques shops, etc.
Another thing, if I see another tea cup and saucer with
the Charles & Diana Wedding for sale in some
rubblish of a charity shop I think I'll scream bloody
 blue murder!!! Every other shop seems to have
 the same useless and unwanted stuff.
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And don't get me going on the British Heart Foundation
(BHF) charity shops with their bedding, household
furniture and electrical goods that price their stuff
again at rip-off prices. I had to pay 40 quid for a small
foldup bed that I later saw else where for 15 quid, but
at the time I was forced to buy a bed while moving into
my elderly and unfunished sheltered accommodation. I
no longer step inside any BHF charity shops after they
ripped me off. Worse still, I later found the matteress
was full of bed bugz and had to get rid of the bed
after all and, of course, buy another one. But luckily
not at 40 quid! Charity shops also "cream off" their
best donated items that never get to the shevles as
 they sell beforehand such items to their connected
friends. Charities are also picky, but if they don't
want your donations tell them to stuff it up their you
know what! But above and beyond that, they're
 all what I call "Tick Box Charities" that tick all
the right boxes to stay in business to legally
rip us all off  year in and year out ...
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UK Charity Chuggers ~ "Legalized Street Muggers."
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Multinational companies fallover for charities by offering
gimmicks thru them to the consumer like Kellogg's
latest one "Give A Child A Breakfast." The company
and the charity clean up thru such gimmicks that are
 also used to make them "look good" when they
 necessarily are not good like Kellogg's.
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And why do British charities want lovely Kate, the Duchess
of Cambridge, and her charming husband Prince William, to
 be their patron? Well, it's all to do with big money! Having
such royal folkz on their letterhead brings not only social
status, but above all tons of money to mad charities. I also
hate the thought that William himself wrote for the
rotten Big Issue, which only helped the Big Issue fat
 catz and hardly the homeless Big Issue vendors on the
streets. I pray Kate will not pick, come this New Year,
The Big Issue Foundation as one of her favourite
charities. She will, no doubt, support an obligatory
 charity for Africa somewhere on her list just like
 the idiotic UK newspaper that declares on its web
frontpage - "Give A Day's Pay To Africa." Isn't it
time Africa stood on its own bloody two feet instead
of swooning allover UK whites to constantly give to
them? A good start for Africa would be to stop having
millions of babies flooding the world to feed!! Colonial
guilt, white compensation and pro-African charity and
 foreign aid all need to be curtailed drastically and
 even better still to be stopped dead in their tracks.
The more the British give to Africans, at home or
abroad, the more they think they're entitled to
more "White Money." It needs to be stopped!!
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Some Local Councils Are Removing These Receptacles.
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A Greedy & Godless Bad John Bird!!
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Here's something you should know about "charity" Pig-
face Anthony John Bird and his nine dissolved companies:
THE BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION Resigned.
BLUEPRINTS 4 CHANGE LIMITED Dissolved.
SOCIAL CRACKER COMPANY LIMITED Dissolved.
THE BIG ISSUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Dissolved.
THE INTERNATIONAL BIG ISSUE LIMITED Dissolved.
SOCIAL BROKERS INCORPORATED LIMITED Dissolved.
THE SOCIAL TREE LIMITED Dissolved.
THE BIG ISSUE (USA) LIMITED Dissolved.
THE BIG ISSUE (NORTH EAST) LIMITED Dissolved.
BIG IDEAS LIMITED Dissolved.
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I assume they're other trusts and companies on John Bird's
whooping charity and entrepreneural list. Thankz "Ms. Info"
for sending me the above list of his dissolved Big Issue
 "empire." Hopefully, The Big Issue itself will be next ...
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"John Bird, although providing the original drive behind The Big
 Issue, was also seen as the magazine’s biggest liability. Financial
woes and consequent restructuring of the organisation have been
blamed on his reckless approach and his tendency to spend sub-
stantial resources on schemes for which he rapidly loses enthusiasm.
His combative management style often alienated staff. As a former
staff journalist stated, "John could be a complete nightmare - he
would walk in ten minutes before press time and demand that
the cover be changed. He can also be a bit of a bully, though
he is immensely charismatic. He preferred us to be in a state
 of crisis, as he thought we'd be more cutting edge."
What a "charismatic" pigface?
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(Below) Pigface's Scum Brother Peter Bird.
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Are these the type of people you'd want to give your
 money to for their charity called The Big Issue Co. Ltd?
 I don't think so!! Watch out then this Christmas for
their appeal for money! They'll have already robbed
me, will the vile Bird Brothers, of my two Xmases
at my Big Issue pitch come this Yuletide, 2011.
I pray every day that they'll be cursed forever.
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The Tin Can Charities.
They use to be made of tin, but thesedays they're
 mostly plastic collection cans or boxes or buckets.
Again, like those hideous charity street muggers,
those with such cans or buckets are seen outside
food stores and busy shopping malls or inside major
conventions or conferences to get you to give by
dropping in your spare change. All that loose
change soon adds up and I suspect many just
pocket the change for themselves in the name of
whatever "charity" they allegedly represent. Rule
of the thumb, and in your mind, should be to never
give unless you are very satisfied they're not a
 bogus or a sham outfit. Those who collect no
more than 5,000 quid per year, do not need
 to be a registered charity inside the UK. This
allows all kinds of scam artists to legally collect
money on the streets without any kind of check
or account of what they may be upto. It's a legal
 loophole that should be closed - period.
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Islamic followers, too, can be seen in London collecting 
on the streets for their mosque or islamic centre. They
are usually in their Muslim garb and presumably vol-
unteer to collect the money. But be leery of them
for the money could also be used by jihadists and
islamicists to spread their venom against all who are
not Muslim! In part 2 of 2, I will tell you alot more
 about what such Muslims are upto and the widespead
 growth of their charities inside the UK and around the
 world within the past decade or two with serious
questions of what happens to all the money
they get at where ever they beg ...
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Plus, I'll take at look at the UK Charity Commission
that seems to have become a toothless watchdog more
than anything else. It also seems to be more interested
in protecting charities rather then prosecuting them for
questionable uses and misdeeds of their coveted
charity status. Indeed, the charity commission seems to
behave much like the notorious Equalities & Human
Rights Commission (EHRC) like under its present
ilk and foul and ugly Trevor Phillips' tenure.
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Next By Uncle Monty: Muslim Charities Mushroom Inside UK.
~ Use of Charities and Non-Profit Organisations ~
"Charities are attractive to terrorist networks as a means to move
 funds. Many thousands of legitimate charitable organisations exist
 all over the world that serve the interests of all societies, and often
transmit funds to and from highly distressed parts of the globe.
Terrorist abuses of the charitable sector have included using legitimate
 transactions to disguise terrorist cash travelling to the same destination;
and broad exploitation of the charitable sector by charities affiliated
with terrorist organisations. The sheer volume of funds and other
assets held by the charitable sector means that the diversion of
even a very small percentage of these funds to support terrorism
constitutes a grave problem." Scource: Salaam, US & UK.
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The Big Issue Foundation Xmas Appeal, 2011:
Don't Give Them An Xmas Gift! It's All Another
Sob Story That You Can Be Sure From Them. They
Claim To Help Hundreds of Big Issue Vendors, But
In The 5 Years I Myself  Was A Vendor, I Never
Got A Dime From The Foundation or The Big Issue.
Yep, NOT ONE DIME, NEVER ...
The Big Issue Foundation Is Chaired By The Muslim James Caan.
This is the same multimillionaire Caan, who was accused by the
British media of trying to offer to buy a baby on one of his
ancestral and business visits back in Pakistan. Because
 he's Muslim and stinking rich, they didn't do anything
about it, of course! Plus, being a B-rated TV
celebrity like he is ...
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As always, Uncle Monty.
+Leo The Great, 2011.
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Not Bad For A Council Estate Wench!
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He's Going To Be Like His Daddy Jeremy,
Leave His Justin Babies All Over The Place ...
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The Savagery of the Slaughter.
By Alex Albion.
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Homeless get tent of their own at St Paul's.
Protest leaders set up welfare centre to provide
influx of rough sleepers with food and shelter.
By Charlie Cooper.
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Squatting law 'won't penalise the homeless'
By Benedict Moore-Bridger.
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Occupiers poach homeless services.
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This Christmas' surprise hit calendar:
Britain's most notorious mental asylums.
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Saluting Our Own British Boyz & Girlz.
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What Vile Tony Blair Has Done To Britain:
Where Are The White British School Kidz?
Here's 1 White Out of 13 Africans!
~ UPDATE ~
More ethnic pupils than whites in London schools.
By Martin Bentham.
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~ PLEASE NOTE ~
I'm running terribly late due to other engagements and
being away again at Brussells for the past few days
and also attending the Anglican Order of Archbishop
Robert Leighton (1611-1684) with Lord Leonard Carr.
So I will attempt to complete part 1 of 2 - Tick Box
Charities - sometime within the next 24 hours or so
now that I am back at homebase. In the meantime,
please find other items I've already included or
added herein as shown above.
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All is well now, since I am back and have now
completed part 1 of 2 of my latest piece:
Tick Box Charities. Your's, UM.
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11/3/11

82,000 Quid.

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Greeff's 82,000 Quid!
By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
Part 2 of 2.
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Certified by his 2010/11 public accounts to The
Charity Commission of England and Wales,
Francois Greeff donated in kind some 82,000
quid to his own disabled homeless charity, called
GOOD 4 YOU, that stands out like a sore thumb
to say the least. Is Greeff's £82,000 some kind of
accounting trick or what? Or am I too dumb or
stupid to understand the real meaning behind such
certified accounts from GOOD 4 YOU?
So ok, I'm stupid!
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But then along with Francois Greeff's "generous donation,"
David Devine does the same thing by donating £18,000
in kind. Followed by Goeff Turner and Andrew Wastall
donating in kind £12,000 each to GOOD 4 YOU.
The grand total by the four of them stands at £124,000.
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Yet in almost the next breath, directors Devine, Turner,
and Wastall are promptly replaced by Binyamin Kahn who,
 along with Nicole de Leur, certified the GOOD 4 YOU
accounts to the UK Charity Commission for 2010/11.
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Have I missed something again or what? What kind
of charity would replace its directors after they'd
donated thousands of pounds or dollars to GOOD
4 YOU? It makes no sense. Perhaps it's another ac-
counting trick all shrouded behind Greeff's directors?
I don't know, but it sounds very strange to me!!
It also sets alarm bells ringing, I do believe ...
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Among the other names listed online of those involved
with Greeff are: Bill Giles, Helen Searle, Chris Dean,
David Jackson, Kathleen Trigg, Lois Acton, along
with Steve & Toni Hazell. Some of them also
carry fancy academic titles, too.
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Perhaps they are aware like me that based on Part
1 of my GOOD 4 YOU critical story of last week,
 scources now tell me that a written complaint has
been formally filed with the UK Charity Commission
regarding Francois Greeff and his iffy charity. What-
ever transpires from such, if anything, I will update my
readership in future of any legal or administrative action
 (s) taken by the commission to determine - either  for or
against - the situation regarding Greeff and his GOOD
 4 YOU charity for the London disabled homeless. So
before that point, let me now continue to present
for you my Part 2 of 2 - Greeff's 82,000 Quid!
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GOOD 4 YOU w/Wide Open Door When
I First Arrived To Quiz Francois Greeff.
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This then is the front door of GOOD 4 YOU after it
was rudely slammed shut in my face by Greef himself.
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So now we go with this from a GOOD 4 YOU ex-
volunteer that arrived suddenly and unsolicited at
my mid-summer inbox, 2011:
"Good4you (is) run by Francois Greeff, who you once
wrote about a few years ago. I quickly left after I heard
from those who worked there about what the charity
actually did. It didn't much help homeless and disabled
people. They said Francois Greeff uses the charity to pay
 the whole of his rent, and gets all volunteers to raise
money for the rent. As managing director, his other main
concern is with raising enough money through the charity to
give himself a huge salary. Its just one big selfish enterprise.
 Apparently because he's mentally ill and was once homeless,
everything that the charity does for him is apparently fine in
his books." GOOD 4 YOU 2011 Ex-volunteer, whose
name and email address has been with held.
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But despite the ex-volunteer's alarming statement, no
end of UK foundations and trusts have given handsomely
to GOOD 4 YOU in the name of helping the disabled
 homeless based solely, I suspect, on Francois Greeff's
own and elaborate claims. The givers include: The
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Channel 4 Television,
The Charities Advisory Trust, Anglican St Mungo's,
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund, The
Odin Charitable Trust, R S Brownless Charitable Trust,
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust, Charlotte Marshall
Charitable Trust, and Marsh Christian Trust, et al.
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To top off the grand list of givers to Greeff is The
National Lottery that has awarded 10,000 quid
 to GOOD 4 YOU, too!
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Mugshot of Francois Greeff, 52, Taken in Oct.
2011, at his own GOOD 4 YOU HQ front door.
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Do any of these foundations and trusts actually go and
inspect and visit GOOD 4 YOU HQ before  they then
 handover their generous money to its founder and
so-called managing director Francois Greeff or what?
 One thing is certain -- as founder and so-called man-
aging director he is cunningly-skilled at filing grant
applications and opportune proposals that are there
for his so-called charity GOOD 4 YOU. One might
even say that such is only GOOD 4 GREEFF and his
 ablitiy to get such UK foundatiions and trusts to give
 to him with almost no questions asked.  Have they
 actually visited his HQ on Aston Road like I did?
And also get the door slammed in their face like I did
 from Greeff? Do they undertake any investigative steps
 to ensure such money they give is really helping the
disabled homeless or do they just blindly give based
on superfluous impressions?
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What I also find curious is that little or nothing is shown
 of the actual people or work that GOOD 4 YOU claims
as its own at its online output. True, there are mainly
 images of others not involved with Greef like a couple
of disabled Big Issue vendors shown and photographed 
on the streets and some pictures of a disabled guy being
pushed in his wheelchair up to the peak of Scafell Pike.
 But online I saw no interior images of the disabled home-
less at his HQ or the faces of such people Greeff alleges
 to have helped. Sure he can offer free speakers - with
Greeff himself sprouting off about "his" disabled homeless 
charity, but I, too, can offer myself as a free speaker on
homelessness even though I have no charity other than
 being a known trustee of the US private Robert Graham
Chase Episcopal Trust, which I have been involved with
 since 1985. Does that make me look good? Of course,
not! I also noticed that google itself  blocks all search
 results from Greeff's GOOD 4 YOU and his
 self-serving online output ...
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Online at the UK Charity Commission website,
 we are told the following by GOOD 4 YOU:
1 WE HELP DISABLED & HOMELESS PEOPLE (EG
 TO GET FREEDOM PASSES) 2 RESEARCH DISABILITY,
SOCIAL EXCLUSION, POVERTY, HOMELESSNESS
3 HELPING NON-DISABLED PEOPLE TO LIVE AND
WORK WITH DISABLED PEOPLE (COMBAT SOCIAL
EXCLUSION) 4 WE OFFER FREE DISABILITY WORK-
SHOPS TO BUSINESSES, CHARITIES, CHURCHES
5 EDUCATION & TRAINING 6 DISABLED PEOPLE'S
PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - GETTING TO THE TOP
IN ANY FIELD.
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Francois Greeff even has some non-paying job offers:
"We have a number of 9 to 5 full time volunteer opportunities.
Flexitime is available. They are: One position for an event
co-ordinator. Several positions for a trainee fundraiser or
 fundraiser. One position for a media and communications
officer, including web site management, and creating You
Tube videos. One personal assistant to a disabled person."
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So is GOOD 4 YOU a "Paper Charity" more than anything
 else? Some have also called it a "bogus charity" run primarily
 for the sole financial benefit of Francois Greeff!  My own
impressions of what I saw, or rather what I didn't see, at
GOOD 4 YOU raised alarm bells to me. Especially, after
Greeff slammed shut the door in my face. If you've got
nothing to hide why would someone do that? Now that
The Charity Commission of England and Wales has
gotten an official complaint perhaps they'll start a full
 investigation of Greef and his GOOD 4 YOU. We'll
see. My own hope is that they can come up with some
 satisfactory answers to many questions swirlling around
the GOOD 4 YOU disabled homeless charity.
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Such is one of over 160,000 mind-boggling charities
 inside the UK. Way too many, I must say. Whatever,
with such a huge number of UK charities - the highest
number in Europe - there are bound to be a few rotten
apples among the lot. All I hope against hope is that
GOOD 4 YOU is as good as it states or claims.
Though, I personally doubt it!! It's perhaps all
smoke and mirrors after all. But again, we'll see.
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Charities should accept their game is up. By Dave Clements.
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GOOD 4 YOU HQ at SW London.
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Photograb of Francois Greeff In This Rather Pitiful
 Picture (shown below) of him when he was homeless in
 London and upon his destitute arrival from South Africa
to the UK. The image is rather pathetic, I think. All of this
 was long before he then "cottoned on" to starting his own
GOOD 4 YOU charity for the London disabled homeless
which has been GOOD 4 HIM from all appearances ...
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So my last question for now is simply this: How in
the hell did Francois Greeff have 82,000 quid to
give or in kind to his own little charity? Beats me!!
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Very truly, Uncle Monty.
+Day After The Commemoration of
 the Faithful Departed (bcp), 2011.
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Who Is Kidding Whom?
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Homeless tour guides take visitors on a gritty
trip around London. By Miranda Bryant.
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Hotel To Be Staffed By Homeless. By Martin Bentham.
Plus, see other homeless news stories.
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More support for disabled victims.
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St. Paul's Cathedral, London, UK.
Kick The Buggers From Out
Of St. Paul's. By Uncle Monty.
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Next:
Tick Box Charities ~ Why They Need To Be Put
Out of Business From The Big Issue Foundation to
 GOOD 4 YOU. The problem with the UK Charity
Commission is that it seems more prone to protecting
charities instead of  probing  them for allegations of
wrong doing or other chicanery that so many charities
 now get away with. The UK charity industry is a multi-
billion quid annual rip-off from high street charity shops
 to so-called non-profit homeless advocacy outfits.
So more on this vital subject coming soon ...
By Uncle Monty.
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Award Me Not!
Yes, yes, yes, so allaboutthebigissue  blog has now
 received its first national web award after only 18
mouths online. But who cares? Not me! Web Awards
are two a penny and don't amount to more than self-
flattery by those who receive such. The thought is
 nice, but until they give something concrete behind
such awards like say a $1,000, or something like
that, to winning bloggers like me, then frankly such
are empty and useless web awards. So don't waste
your time even posting images of such an award.
Cheerz, UM.
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