Fraudster donates to children's charities

Howard Lake | 15 January 2000 | News

Modern day Robin Hood faces jail.

In a bizarre case of corporate giving and taking, Christopher Barrington stole £17,635 from his employer Direct Marketing Partnerships in Cheltenham and donated it all to children’s charities. He faces up to three years in prison.

Read more at BBC News Online.

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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.