# Britishfundraisers.com raises €20 online so far

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/03/31/britishfundraiserscom-raises-e20-online-so-far/
- Published: 2004-03-31T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Guardian’s consumer champion Anna Tims today reports on Britishfundraisers.
com which says that it raises funds for charities and handles donations for them,
but whose Web site has only handled €20 so far.**

As a result of Anna Tims contact with Malaga-based Britishfundraisers.com six months
ago, the Charity Commission investigated the site and the company behind it. Several
of the charities listed as beneficiaries on the site had not heard of the company.

Ms Tims contacted Max Diamond, who also runs Costa Business Bureau, the company 
behind the site, from his home in Spain. He told her that “Britishfundraisers is
a non-profit organisation that aims to pass 50% of the money it raises to the charities
in question.”

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Following up more recently, Ms Tims found that none of the UK charities listed on
the site had heard anything further from Britishfundraisers.com. Diamond admitted
that the site had only received on €20 so far. Although he added that £15,000 had
been pledged to sponsored events planned via the site, none of the events had yet
taken place.

The site lists a contract that charities must sign “in accordance with Charity Commission
rulings” when they register on the site.

The Britishfundraisers.com site is therefore an odd mix of openness, poor track 
record, empty pages (there is still nothing on its news page for example), some 
naming errors (such as the “UK Charity Commission)), and ill-informed assertions.

For example, Max Diamond himself claims that “it is widely known by governing bodies,
that some charities and charitable organisations, after very high administration
costs (high salaries for their bosses and staff, expensive offices, expense accounts,
vehicles, television marketing campaigns, etc, etc!), they are only able to give
around 5% of the amount donated by the general public, towards their actual objectives.”
As such, the site does not inspire confidence.