One of Britain’s biggest charities gave £275,000 to an Irish republican group whose offices were raided this year by anti-terrorism police investigating sex-trafficking, violent intimidation and “paramilitary-style attacks”.
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust funded a support group closely linked to the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), a banned terrorist organisation. A man held in the raids was charged with running a brothel and extortion.
The York-based trust was strongly condemned yesterday by a politician from Northern Ireland’s nationalist SDLP party. She called the award “sickening”. The Charity Commission ordered the trust last night to “explain and justify” its funding decision. A source close to the regulator labelled it “astonishing and absolutely appalling”.
The Times reported this week that the trust, a Quaker organisation, had given £550,000 to a group that accused a Labour MP of “industrial-scale racism” for highlighting the sexual abuse of girls by gangs of British Pakistani men.
Didn’t they send some money Ritchie’s way? Far worse, obviously.
What has a chocolate-maker’s charity got to do with Fenians?
I suppose a fat bastard like Murphy eats a lot of chocolate but that is the only direction the subsidy should run in.
I think there is more than one Rowntree trust, and the one that funds Murphy is not this one. They are all nominally Quaker trusts, but at least one (JRRT) has become infested by LibDems which explains their frequent funding of the yellow peril.
Most ‘Charities’ nowadays seem to be controlled by left-wing, anti-white, anti-western pieces of s**t. We need strong government action on this.
Ha, only kidding! May and company are utterly useless an won’t lift a finger.
Alex
There are four Joseph Rowntree trusts. The JR Housing Trust provides social housing, with all the political correctness that now involves. The others often fund subversion.
The austere Joseph Rowntree wanted his money to be used to tackle “the underlying causes” (JR’s 1904 memorandum) of social problems, rather than treating their symptoms. What he had in mind, I believe, was more self-discipline and no alcohol.
His modern trustees have hijacked his funds and distorted his priorities.
What will happen:
The Trust will declare it “an error of judgement” and some senior bod “will take full responsibility”.
No one will suffer any consequences – no prosecution or sackings.
The Charities Commission will say “naughty boys, don’t do it again” and then turn to a more interesting topic, such as who funds right of centre charities they don’t like.
Murphy will say “of course it is awful, shocking, BUT” and then devote 2,000 words to how it is a neoliberal plot.
Ha, only kidding! May and company are utterly useless an won’t lift a finger
When faced with an opponent’s open goal May’s preferred tactic is a 90 yard back pass into her own.
No doubt lessons will be learned. About how to conceal it better in future.
£550,000 to Just Yorkshire.
Reg. charity no. 1121074, check it out.
Ha, only kidding! May and company are utterly useless an won’t lift a finger.
I was going to say that but was afraid I’d be labelled an internet tough guy if I did.
We need strong government action on this.
When you hear this from an Englishman you can safely assume it’s either sarcasm or parody.
Why do charities get tax exemptions anyway.
If tax money is indeed needed for purposes necessary for the common good then those purposes should take priority over the less necessary purposes that are left to charities. If not then the tax burden can be lowered.
Also the status of trust funds needs sorting. I have my doubts whether either Rowntree or Scott would actually approve of the use to which their funds are currently being put.
Hugh
JUST West Yorkshire is a very small charity (circa £70K turnover), details here:
http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends74/0001121074_AC_20160930_E_C.pdf
They do receive grants from Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, but £550,000 would be off the scale (circa £50K-£60K the last couple of years – Note 2 in the accounts link), a complete step change?
Richard would approve of the objectives, but not that last year they lodged unsigned / undated accounts with the Charity Commission, nor that this year’s are overdue…
At least he’s given up hope of getting the Ermine…
“We do not need 800 Lords. In fact we don’t need the Lords at all. We need a second, regionally elected chamber of members with long terms, but time limited service.”
Translation, “if I can’t be in it then I’ll campaign to shut it”
“JUST IS A GROUNDBREAKING INITIATIVE SET UP BY THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST IN 2003 TO PROMOTE RACIAL JUSTICE IN WEST YORKSHIRE. JUST HAS BECOME A LEADING VOICE IN THE NORTH PROMOTING RACIAL JUSTICE, CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS.”
Pat, the tax exemption is a matter of administrative convenience. If a charity did make a significant profit, it would soon be charged tax. In any case, a lot of charities are set up as companies limited by guarantee so tax is due if they make profits. I wonder how many independent schools funded by Leather sellers, Haberdashers and Skinners etc actually make profits. The livery companies seem to achieve much better outcomes than government does
Noel, I have noticed that his blogging went on pause earlier this week and that he has been posting in a frenzy since then. Has he had a psychotic break? His current posts make the historical ones seem sane. It is as if what existed of his brain has been removed
http://www.t*xresearch.org.uk/Blog/2010/08/02/tax-research-uk-new-funding-from-the-joseph-rowntree-charitable-trust/
Looks like it’s the same organisation.
@Rob, July 28, 2018 at 11:46 am
Aided and abetted by her harpies…
Jonathan – then why not change charities by becoming a trustee in several of them?
Can’t all be a particular classification if other people who aren’t of that classification get involved in being a trustee.
I refuse to give to Quakers because they won’t take their hats off to me.
@DtP
Not all Englishmen are alike, just as not all Americans are alike.
A certain stubborn bloody-minded nature and general sense of what is right and fair play will abide long after the transient wave of spineless pc handwringing has passed.
Just remember. An American once told me “you Brits needed us in 1917 and 1941” to which I replied “no we didn’t, we needed you in 1914 and 1939.”
the trust, a Quaker organisation
QINO I’m sure. Something, something about what inevitably happens to organisations that aren’t explicitly right-wing?
I discussed this at my local Meeting this morning, and there has been rumbling concerned about the direction the Roundtree trusts have taken, but they have been so comprehensively taken over by activists that Quakers have near to no input in them any more. It’s like Roundtree Foods is just a division of Nestle, it’s not Roundtree Foods any more.
I don’t wear a hat, as it is a frivolous piece of personal adornment! 🙂
Infiltrate the organisation, hollow it out, use it as a base for political activity and supporting our enemies. After all, a charity is the perfect cover. It’s like operating out of a Red Cross hospital in wartime.
PF
It turns out that the £550,000 is a report of JRCT’s total donation since the campaign’s foundation following the Northern Uprising (eh?) in 2001.
See justyorkshire.org.uk for history,trutess,etc.
And for the contact address.