Thursday, February 19, 2015

Comic Relief funding War on Jews: update

Following my previous posting, since I had received no acknowledgement to my letter of complaint to Comic Relief, I have submitted a formal complaint to the Charities Commission. The submitted form is below ('coincidentally' one hour after submitting the complaint I finally got an acknowledgement - but not a response - from Comic Relief to my earlier letter). I encourage others to submit a complaint using this web form.

Raising concerns about a charity

Submitted:
19/02/2015 10:58:01

Charity name
Comic Relief

Identify which of the below best represents the concerns that you wish to report
Serious non-compliance in a charity that damages or has the potential to damage its reputation and/or the reputation of charities generally


Do you have evidence of this?
Yes

Please provide a summary of the evidence
Comic Relief is covering up its funding of "War on Want", which is an organisation that is almost entirely focused on a political campaign of
incitement to destroy the Jewish State of Israel (see, e.g. http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/war-on-want-charity-that-is-just-anti.html).
There is no mention of funding War on Want on the Comic Relief website and the Comic Relief International Funding Guide document (which was written in 2013) suggests that their international grants go exclusively to projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in War on Want's own annual report it states that it received £139,407 in 2013 and £27,790 in 2014 from Comic Relief.

Please set out any additional facts and information about the serious issue that you wish to report
See also: http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/comic-relief-funds-people-who.html

Details of attempts you have made to get the charity to address this issue. Please provide details of when you reported this issue to the charity and the outcome:
I sent an email letter to Comic Relief on 12 Feb 2015 with the above details but have received no response

Details of any previous correspondence or contact with us:
None

Details of previous correspondence with any other public body about these matters:
None

Is the issue that you wish to report the subject of any legal proceedings or litigation? If so please give details:
No

Your name
Edgar Davidson

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