Charities

A woman who helped to organise the Black Lives Matter protest that toppled the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for fraud.

Xahra Saleem, 23, pleaded guilty to using more than £30,000 that was supposed to go to a charity for disadvantaged youngsters in the city to buy a new phone, computer, hair and make-up, taxis and takeaways.

A woman who stole more than £94,000 from a Bristol charity has been jailed.

Tracy Parsons, of Newport, was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday 10 October after she pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position, false accounting, and money laundering.

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The Fraud Advisory Panel and its supporters will be delivering the 8th annual Charity Fraud Awareness Week between 27 November and 1 December 2023.

2023 programme

The following 5 areas are confirmed for this year, with others to follow:

The insider threat

Managing whistleblowing effectively

Managing a charities digital footprint

Managing crypto assets and donations

Tackling legacy fraud

Lack of cyber security risk management software exposes third sector to increased threat of cyber fraud

Over half (57 per cent) of charities are concerned about the rising threat of cyber-crime to their organisation

27 per cent say they had been a target of cyber fraud and 20 per cent had experienced a health and safety breach in the past 12 months

Increased adoption of technology within the sector is putting many at risk

Despite this, just 24 per cent had introduced risk management software and security monitoring tools

David Levi, 49, reappeared before His Honour Judge Jefferies at Manchester High Court on Wednesday (September 27).

Levi, of Clifton Drive South, St Annes, previously admitted money laundering and fraud offences alongside five accomplices.

An "impulsive" fraudster who fleeced a church for more than £38,000 has been jailed.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2023/05/05/jailed-impulsive-fraudster-conned-38000-from-telford-church-funds/

An ex-charity trustee has admitted committing fraud while he was heading up a privatised probation organisation.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ex-chairman-north-east-private-190000462.html/

A fraudulent fundraiser who failed to hand over more than £2,000 in charity cash to Macmillan Cancer Support has been told his actions were "abhorrent" by magistrates.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2023/04/08/abhorrent-fraudster-failed-to-pay-more-than-2000-to-cancer-nurse-charity/

Fraudsters impersonating members of a Sikh temple in Kent have tricked people in India into giving them money under false promises of work and visas.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/fraudsters-pose-as-gravesend-gurdwara-sikh-temple-in-work-and-visa-scam/ar-AA19BTW2

A bereavement charity has said it is “deeply saddened and disappointed” after a former employee was jailed for defrauding the organisation. 

https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/bereavement-charity-saddened-as-ex-employee-jailed-for-fraud.html