Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 19 March 2013
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Trolley derby a winner
Not one dollar donated by Nelsonians to a man collecting for bowel cancer research is expected to make its way to the intended cause, but to an alleged Australian charity scam instead. The Cancer Research Charitable Trust is currently collecting in Nelson, its financial records show it raised a little over $111,000 for the year ending 2011 and spent it all on wages and expenses with not one dollar being donated to a single charity. The trust is registered with the Charities Commission but an 0800 number on its invoices does not exist, nor does its website. The listed officer of the charity, Troy Manhire, has been the target of police investigations in
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Australia and is currently under investigation by the Department of Internal Affairs here. Door-knockers for the trust earn up to 40 per cent of the money they collect, a practice deemed to be “unprofessional” by the Fundraising Institute of New Zealand. “No professional fundraising institute in the world condones relating fundraising fees to the amount raised,” says FINZ CEO James Austin. In 2009 Mr Manhire was investigated for fraud in South Australia
Mud bath Nelson’s Francesca Todd Rose, 16, was all smiles at the completion of the Muddy Buddy Fun Run at the Moutere Inlet on Sunday. Story on page 9. Photo: Phillip Rollo.
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