BeatBullying business model collapses

"The charity BeatBullying has gone into voluntary liquidation after talks with potential buyers failed, the trustees have confirmed. In a statement on the charity’s website on Friday evening, the trustees said that they had not been able to reach an agreement with any potential buyers. "[Potential buyers of a charity ?]

"They said: "For the past two months, with the support of our legal and financial advisers, we have engaged in intensive discussions with a number of interested parties with the hope that we would secure the future of BeatBullying Group’s services and fulfil our commitment to staff and creditors." [How about their commitment to the young people who were their clients ?]

"BeatBullying gained charitable status in 2003 and went on to win a number of awards for its anti-bullying work with young people. It delivered a range of programmes and workshops in schools and provided counselling and advice to young people who had experienced bullying. The charity also set up MindFull, an online service that provided information and advice about mental health and emotional wellbeing for young people." [Did that not include advice about resilience ? Oh dear ! ]

"But the charity has experienced financial difficulties in recent years and last year made a number of redundancies, sources have told Third Sector. [Too many other charities in this lucrative business perhaps ?]... Its latest accounts for the year ending 2013 are currently overdue, according to a spokeswoman for Charity Commission."

http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/beatbullying-goes-voluntary-liquidation-failing-attract-buyers/finance/article/1321058

I have to reflect back on an earlier post:
　

The BB Group have received backing from the Venture Philanthropy Foundation whose thing is to "facilitate growth and maximise social impact." They have also received support from the UK Cabinet Office: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
Over the last 3 years, the Cabinet Office has continued to invest in the transition of the charity from a single programme to a group structure. Grants, loans and investments have allowed us to scale our impact, diversify our provision, re-structure our services, expand the reach and success of our social enterprises and seed-fund and invest in our technology build. Critically, when others paused the Cabinet Office investment allowed us to continue to develop our digital social action and volunteering model. [Look at the business-speak] The BB Group also tell us that: Through the DAPHNE III Fund the EU is funding the expansion of BeatBullying into 8 countries across Europe. Working in close partnership with excellent organisations on the ground in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania we are rolling out the BeatBullying model. Over the next two years we aim together to reach over a million european young people. So behind the MindFull website there are some very big players: banking globalists, the Cabinet Office, the European Union and others. They have big ambitions about how to sweep their ideas across charities and towards millions of children, particularly in those countries which are now in serious trouble due to austerity after the global banking fiascos.

MindFull is not an independent charity and it is not innocent.http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/mindfull.html

And neither is Beat Bullying !

18.11.2014 -  See http://4liberty.org.uk/2014/11/17/fake-charities-the-great-rip-off/