{"id":86587,"date":"2017-11-23T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=71b40372a7c6a2c937953e35f51f67a5"},"modified":"2017-11-23T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T10:00:07","slug":"press-release-new-charity-investigation-grove-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=86587","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New charity investigation: Grove Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Charity Commission, the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales, has opened a<br \/>\nnew statutory inquiry into Grove Mountain, registered charity number 1162684, and has frozen the<br \/>\ncharity\u2019s bank accounts. The investigation was opened on 11 August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The charity provides books to the Caribbean for educational purposes.<\/p>\n<p>After concerns regarding the charity\u2019s finances were raised with the Commission by a third party, the Commission examined the charity\u2019s accounts for the financial year ending 1 April 2016. The Commission found that the majority of the charity\u2019s income for the year was withdrawn in cash and that there was a pattern of large cash withdrawals being made shortly after donations or identical amounts had been deposited.<\/p>\n<p>This raises regulatory concerns for the Commission regarding the charity\u2019s financial controls and whether the cash withdrawals have been spent on meeting the charity\u2019s objects. A statutory inquiry has therefore been opened to examine whether:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the charity has been operating for exclusively charitable purposes for the public benefit in furtherance of its charitable objects<\/li>\n<li>the financial controls of the charity are adequate and its funds have been properly expended<\/li>\n<li>the trustees have complied with their legal duties in respect of the administration, governance and management of the charity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is the Commission\u2019s policy, after it has concluded an inquiry, to publish a report detailing what<br \/>\nissues the inquiry looked at, what actions were undertaken as part of the inquiry and what the<br \/>\noutcomes were. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/inquiry-reports-charity-commission\">Reports of previous inquiries<\/a> by the Commission are available on GOV.UK.<\/p>\n<p>The charity\u2019s details can be viewed on the Commission\u2019s <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/apps.charitycommission.gov.uk\/Showcharity\/RegisterOfCharities\/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1162684&amp;SubsidiaryNumber=0\">online charity search tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n<p>PR 74\/17<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The Charity Commission is the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales. To<br \/>\nfind out more about our work, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/charity-commission-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017\">annual report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Search for charities on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/find-charity-information\">check charity tool<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Section 46 of the Charities Act 2011 gives the Commission the power to institute inquiries. The opening of an inquiry gives the Commission access to a range of investigative, protective<br \/>\nand remedial legal powers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_2196\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:pressenquiries@charitycommission.gsi.gov.uk\">pressenquiries@charitycommission.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries &#8211; office hours<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 065 2123\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries &#8211; out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              07785 748787\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity Commission investigates Grove Mountain over financial concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}