Charity bosses rapped again

INVESTIGATED Targeted Management’s Tony Chadwick The clique behind a dodgy charity to help former soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder has got a cheek.

As I reported in February, the Charity Commission stepped in after it became concerned about how much money was reaching the needy.

It appointed an interim manager to investigate the Blackpool-based operation, which was banned from further collections and had its bank accounts frozen.

Yet the charity bosses launched legal action to try to wrestle back control of Support the Heroes.

Its two trustees are Pauline White and her sister Pamela Carruthers. They had outsourced fundraising to a company called Targeted Management Ltd, run by Tony Chadwick, who is the son of the man that Pamela Carruthers lives with.

Over two years, the charity got just 16% of the money collected while Targeted Management, which paid its fundraisers directly out of cash donations, kept 84%.

No wonder the Charity Commission suspected a conflict of interests and moved in. The good news is that the charity is not back in the clutches of the trustees after a tribunal threw out their claim.

It ruled that when Support The Heroes awarded the fundraising work to Targeted Management it failed to ensure that the contract was “lawful, appropriate, and represented value for money”.

The tribunal added: “This omission created a risk that significant charitable resources would be misused through the over-remuneration of Targeted Management.”