# Fundraising company struck off register

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/08/19/fundraising-company-struck-register/
- Published: 2008-08-19T20:42:37+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Operation Rudolph, a company in Ireland that ran high-profile fundraising events
for charity, has been struck off from the Companies Registration Office.

The company has not filed accounts for the last three years, and was listed for 
strike-off by the CRO earlier this year. Operation Rudolph was set up in 1995 by
Ian McKeever, who last year set a record for climbing the highest mountain on each
continent.

Rather than a charity, Operation Rudolph described itself as ‘‘a non-profit-making
organisation established to provide financial assistance for charitable children’s
projects’’. It ran charity cycles, fundraising balls and hill-walking challenges.

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The company’s last accounts are for 2004,when it had gross income of more than €
48,000 from fundraising events. It had ‘‘direct costs associated with fundraising
events’’ of almost €6,000, leaving it with net income of more than €42,000.

It made donations of €34,500 to four charities – Chernobyl Children, the West of
Ireland Alzheimer Foundation, the Laura Lynn Foundation and the Cormac Weldon Trust.
A further €9,000 was spent on ‘‘administration overheads’’.

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