Showing posts with label UK Charity Commission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK Charity Commission. 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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10/27/11

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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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.
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