As predicted last week, Prince Charles Charity has closed amid claims of fraud, money laundering and misuse of charity status.
Their statement reads.
30 April 2010
The Trustees of The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health have decided to close the charity. Whilst the closure has been planned for many months and is part of an agreed strategy,...
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Archive for April, 2010
Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health Closes
Why I am Standing Against David Tredinnick
Yesterday I bumped into a friend who declared himself disappointed in me for standing against David Tredinnick over homeopathy. “I thought you were the one rational, sane science writer who had an open mind about homeopathy,” he said. I told him I do have an open mind: I am sure homeopathy is a placebo...
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Prince of Wales Charity Faces Imminent Closure
The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health has just a few more days to submit its accounts for 2008 before it risks the near certainty of delisting as a charity.
According to the Charity Commission web site, the accounts are now 171 days overdue. Charities have ten months to submit their Annual Return. After this time,...
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Au Revoir, Paula Ross
It would appear that the Chief Executive of the Society of Homeopaths, Paula Ross, has left the building. This morning, the web page that lists the staff of the Society no longer includes her profile. It were there yesterday, and now it is gone.
And also, separately, a little dickie bird tells me that...
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Who is to Blame for Bad Health Journalism?
Fiona Fox, Director of the Science Media Centre, has been complaining that blogs are not real journalism. She appears to be upset that bloggers are supposedly claiming to be better than journalists and that such sentiment might undermine the fragile existence of science journalism in the media. Comments quickly filled her article suggesting blogs...
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The British Chiropractic Association Humiliated.
People who work in public healthcare, or are involved with the promotion of health practitioners or techniques, do not have an absolute right to a reputation. It is most important that the claims, behaviours and results achieved are subject to the highest levels of public scrutiny. It is only in doing so that we...
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Dame Shirley Porter Funded Prince Charles’ Political Report on NHS Alternative Medicine
After writing about how Prince Charles’ charity, the Foundation for Integrated Health, is now under police investigation for possible fraud, it has become clear how I have missed one of the most shocking aspects of the Smallwood Report.
The report has proved to be very controversial because it was commissioned by Prince Charles and...
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Police Investigate The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health
Scotland Yard has been called into Prince Charles’ charity, the Foundation for Integrated Health, to investigate alleged fraudulent transactions. Reports suggest that either £150,000 or £300,000 has gone missing from the charity and that the accounts could not be signed off by auditors because of transactional discrepancies. The charity has already received fines for...
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