Charity Matters Apr/May 2019 ISSUE 83

SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS A number of charities have joined the boycott of London’s Dorchester Hotel, by cancelling events due to be held there…

FIRST CONVICTION FOR FGM A Ugandan mother from Walthamstow has been handed an 11 year jail sentence for an act of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on …

CANCER CON A fraudster conned a small cancer charity into employing her as a £40,000 a year marketing and events manager by claiming that she had two …

DESPERATE CHEATS Felicity Huffman, 56, a former actress in the Desperate Housewives series, has admitted that an £11,000 bribe disguised as a …

SLAVERY AND THE NATIONAL TRUST The National Trust is researching the links to slavery that an estimated one in six of its properties has, to give visitors an …

LIBEL THREAT The cancer charity Melanoma UK has been threatened with legal action by the Sunbed Association for suggesting that regular use of sunbeds …

POSH GEAR IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS A Mind charity shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has been given an estimated £50,000 worth of designer clothes to sell by an…

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