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Charity Commission for England and Wales, Charity Fundraising, Charity Governance, Charity Transparency, Charity Trustees, Conspiracy, David Merrill, Fundraising cheats, Julia de Cadenet, No To Dog Meat, NO TO DOG MEAT FOUNDATION, World Protection of Dogs and Cats in the Meat Trade
People worldwide gave generously for Mrs Yang (Yang Xiao Yun (杨晓芸) because they were told by the charity, ‘WORLD PROTECTION FOR DOGS AND CATS IN THE MEAT TRADE’ (WPDCMT) AKA ‘No To Dog Meat’ (NTDM), and via many different media sources throughout the world, how dreadfully she was struggling in dire circumstances to give sanctuary to her rescues.
“The charity utilised Mrs Yang’s identity, images, persona and international reputation as a rescuer of dogs from the Yulin dog meat festival (held in China on the summer solstice), to call specifically for donations for her and her shelter.” (quote from the petition)
In addition to the appeal for Mrs Yang on ‘Total Giving’ “the charity also invited their social media following to donate for Mrs Yang via the charity’s own website donation portal” (quote from the petition)
One donor confirmed that she had sent £5000 GBP directly to the charity CEO for the Mrs Yang appeal.
Nearly 2 years later, where Mrs Yang’s fund has been spent remains a mystery as the charity trustees and the Charity Commission for England and Wales continue to ignore appeals for transparency over this contentious fundraiser.
Visitors to this site will know that since the charity trustees made a (one day in August 2015?) visit to Mrs Yang’s temporary premises, in a derelict apartment complex, others have visited Mrs Yang and reported on her situation.
The two charity trustees claim to have seen many suffering dogs in immediate need but decided to turn their back on Mrs Yang’s tragic dogs, refused financial help and insisted that their charity retain the restricted fund for ‘other purposes’.
The two trustees (and friends) then flew to Los Angeles for a celebrity fundraiser for their charity.
Later appeals from the leader of a small group of ‘Friends of Yang’ (during her two trips to China to work alongside Mrs Yang) for the charity to release funds for immediate veterinary care fell on deaf ears.
The charity trustees reportedly told obliging Charity Commission employees, that the fund had failed, refused to refund the donors, and proceeded to trash the reputation of Mrs Yang in defence of their actions over social media, and, in a disgraceful very late ‘report’ (November 2015) on their website. The admin of the many FB pages for the charity have successfully managed to keep the Mrs Yang fund saga hidden from thousands of their FB supporters. A call was recently made for the charity to delete images of Mrs Yang it has continued to use as publicity posters.
Many donors remain in blissful ignorance of the situation; that their money never reached Mrs Yang. Donors who were alerted have been shunned by the charity and fobbed off by the Charity Commission when they complained.
Agents of the charity launched cyber-attacks on individuals speaking out for Mrs Yang, these attacks continue today. The CEO of the charity has been reported to have physically stalked certain individuals to their home and places of work, sending crackpot letters to their employers. One such written communication from the CEO threatened an employer that his business would suffer repercussions if he didn’t fire her victim.
Text below courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/YesAndNowGroup/ :
“Why has the Charity Commission for England and Wales chosen to hide how a restricted fundraiser that went viral on TotalGiving, created in the name of a Chinese dog & cat rescuer, Yang Xiao Yun (杨晓芸), was spent? The (90%+) majority of which never reached the beneficiary?
It is now increasingly impossible to conclude other than the Charity Commission for England and Wales, in spite of many complaints, have colluded with the charity UK registered charity, #1154524 ‘WORLD PROTECTION FOR DOGS AND CATS IN THE MEAT TRADE’ (WPDCMT) AKA ‘No To Dog Meat’ (NTDM), to blatantly stick two fingers in the air at donors and the public. The charity’s detailed Profit and Loss account on the CC portal has been concealed. That the restricted fund for Mrs Yang, the Chinese rescuer of dogs and cats, was spent ‘for other purposes’ is no longer in doubt. However, why is the CC hiding how/where it was spent?
We refer you to: http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/…/0001154524_AC_201605… where, for reasons best known to the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the final page (detailed Profit and Loss Statement) of submitted accounts has been omitted. And, also of note, the firm of independent examiner of the accounts states that it is unable to verify that the financial statements present a “true and fair view” relying only on explanations of the trustees.
We are only short of 300 signatures to reach 10k, to ask for an investigation: INVESTIGATE the UK registered charity #1154524 known as ‘No To Dog Meat’ (NTDM aka WPDCMT)
A background to the sordid history of how the vulnerable dogs and their rescuer in China have been exploited for cynical financial gain: https://charityobserver.wordpress.com/…/yang-xiao-yun-%E6%…/
Friends of Yang leaders, one of whom is Victoria Charlotte, challenged by the UK charity, have visited Mrs Yang on several occasions to investigate the disgraceful accusations circulated by the charity to defend their greed. The Charity Commission for England and Wales continue to ignore representation on behalf of Mrs Yang.
NB: With no disrespect to the independent examiners…….. they haven’t even accurately reported the amount of the Mrs Yang restricted fund in the financial period 25th May 2015 to 24th May 2016 which was on Total Giving alone (see screen grab) already standing, excluding Gift Aid and less Paypal charges, in February 2016, at £86,259 GB?” [sic]
Screen grab of the running total on TotalGiving Platform in February 2016. The fund continues to increment
*It is important to note that some donors set up monthly amounts to be sent to the charity for this cause and these monthly amounts are continuing to add to this restricted fund.
All monies are directed straight to the charity. The Total Giving company Raise Your Profile Ltd do not hold any monies for any period of time for any fundraiser.
Detailed breakdown of Expenditure not supplied on the CC online portal.
“For those new to the case of the restricted fund naming Mrs Yang as beneficiary, Sophie Ling a dedicated and prominent volunteer for the UK charity resigned when the charity head insisted on tampering with the fund mission statement as the proceeds grew. Exactly why the Charity Commission for England and Wales have resisted addressing the multitude of complaints made about the UK charity purloining the restricted fund, and its reprehensible behavior bringing charity into disrepute, remains a complete mystery. That one woman, the head of the charity, has cajoled employees of the Charity Commission for England and Wales into accepting her machinations while ignoring complaints about her charity going back as far as 2013 (when a resigning trustee reports she lodged a complaint to the CC) can only be viewed as highly suspicious.” (The Yes And Now Group)
To track how the charity head, Ms Julia de Cadenet, several times altered the title and the mission statement of the restricted fund : https://www.facebook.com/YesAndNowGroup/posts/1146735602121236
Other fundraisers created (http://www.totalgiving.co.uk/charity/notodogmeat) on behalf of the charity, calling itself on the Total Giving fundraising platform, NO TO DOG MEAT FOUNDATION, have not fared so well. The largest amount raised for the charity on Total Giving, on any one appeal, was £5155 GBP. It has taken the charity nearly two years to raise £1957 GBP, without Mrs Yang as a poster figure, on an appeal for dog meat trade dogs & cats.
Charity Observer 
Readers should be aware that in accordance with the Charities SORP (Statement of Recognized Practice) – the accounting structure used by all charities in the UK, the wording of the Independent Examiners Report follows a standardized format, which includes the statement ‘no issues have come to my attention that suggest the accounts do not give a fair and true picture’
Readers can compare the IE Report fr this charity against those for other charities, which they will see are all worded in exactly the same way, by visiting the Charity Commission website and choosing a charity at random through the ‘Search for a charity’ link.
Not saying there may not be issues with the accounts, just that the wording of the IE Report isn’t one.
The Balance Sheet as presented matches the requirements of the SORP, more details only being required where a charity’s income is over 25k UK Pounds. So this isn’t an issue either, at least as far as charity regulation goes.
The suggestion that the Charity Commission in some way ‘colludes’ with this charity to hide or misrepresent expenditure/accounting is frankly ridiculous and misguided.
The ‘truth’ is likely to be much more prosaic, if a sad reflection on their abilities, as i am attempting to demonstrate through a currently active FOI request on the Whatdotheyknow website. Check it out for yourselves and put two and two together.
Becky
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Hello Becky, thank you for your comment. Apart from your quoted “‘no issues have come to my attention that suggest the accounts do not give a fair and true picture’, which we cannot see on the Independent Examiners Statement, we refer you to the comment by the admin of the ‘Yes and No Group’ Facebook post re: ‘true and fair view’
” In case of any misunderstanding, it should be pointed out that where the independent examiner reports : “The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the financial statements present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.” that Is a standard declaration when an audit is not performed. However, it does inform the public that examination of financial statements supplied by trustees was limited. How limited is anybody’s guess? In view of the evidence from the running total as supplied on the Total Giving crowdfunding platform (until the fund was hidden in 2016) the declared amount of the restricted fund income, excluding any amounts donated for Mrs Yang directly to the charity, on the financial statement doesn’t appear to be accurate? This capture in February 2016, 3 months before the 2016 financial year end, (after the title of the fundraiser had been yet again tampered with) shows a balance received of £86259GBP excluding Gift Aid and minus payment provider fees. The Financial Statement as produced by the Independent Examiner declares only £77756GBP.
It is also worth pointing out that the Charity had only £212 to its name at the beginning of the financial year. Hardly surprising that questions are being raised.” [sic]
Viewing random accounts of ‘below £250k income’ charities we have yet to find others where a detailed Expenditure Statement is not provided and published on the CC. You may have other examples of concealment? If you do, that is a sad commentary on those charity’s deliberate lack of transparency. Although the Charity Commission is without doubt able to avail itself of the HMRC exemptions for companies with incomes below £250000 to justify the paucity of financial transparency published in this case, in view of its consistent obstinate prevarication over complaints made about this restricted fund the omission of a detailed Expenditure Statement seems at worst cynical and at best naive.
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I came on twitter for a giggle with friends ! A Tweet came up about a horror happening in China I saw a caring woman on her hands and knees begging for the life of a dog ! I sobbed I read up on the dogCatMeat Traders I was horrified I started to support this wonderful woman ! A Donation site came up I wasn’t aloud to use my creadite card on line so was given an address to send money ! Iv already been bitten once befor so had to send money so hubby wouldn’t notice ! Thought I went shopping in London with friends ! A month later I seem Tweets asking why hasn’t mrs Yang had her money last I seen the Donation sight there was about a £100,000 ! No Answers were given ! Then people got suspicious! I started Tweeting why hasn’t Mrs Yang got her money ! Then nasty Tweets started going Round about her !! And the So Called Charity who Collected for her ! Start calling her a Scam ? An Animal Abuser ?? WTF ?? There was No Evidences to back this up ! If it wasn’t for the likes of Mrs Yang the world wouldn’t have known the Truth of Yulin in China !! The more I asked the more I was Attack by a Nasty woman called Alice Susan Harding she stole photos off my Facebook that was not on public ! And Posted them Accused Me of being other people ! I don’t need to hide my Identity to tell the truth this led to Nasty Lies about me ! Blogs put on the World Wide Web Iam intouble with the plicevthreats they’d say I work with my husband????T I don’t work ! Treats to say they’d phone people’s work places ! Illegal letter heads saying from a Non practicing Barrister! A illegal B A CEO of Any Company Can not Represents legally there own Company!! And many more Nasty lies about people who Support Mrs Yang ! Now you Tell My Why All This Scarmungring If Julia De Cadenet Alice Susan Harding have Nothing To Hide ??, Please This Needs Investigating ! I Thiught Theft was Illegal in Britain
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Sorry forgot to say The Address I was given to send my money didnot exsist
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Hello Tina, we have witnessed first hand the dreadful social media trolling attacks you have been subjected to by the NTDM volunteer, Ms Harding, The intolerable distress you have suffered is clearly outrageous, as is the distress suffered by so many others subjected to the same attacks for speaking out for Mrs Yang. BTW did your donation for Mrs Yang to the charity ever get cleared by your bank?
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Please give the lade the monety, thank you
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