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The body Charity Charity asks for an explanation of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust on the claims that it gave £ 275,000 to an organization linked to a banned Irish Republican group.
The Quaker Trust website shows a grant of £ 149,915 to Teach Na Failte in November 2014 and a £ 125,000 grant in March of last year
According to the Times, the organization is linked to the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)), a paramilitary group responsible for some of the most infamous attacks of unrest, including the badbadination of Conservative MP Airey Neave in 1979.
The Commission of the Charity requests response from Rowntree Trust to allegations formulated in
Michelle Russell, Director of Investigation and Enforcement of the Commission, said: "Our guidelines clearly indicate that charitable organizations must take steps to carry out an appropriate due diligence of the organizations applying for grants. In addition, the goals and decisions of the charity are in the best interest of the charity.
"Charities should be able to explain and justify their funding decisions. We asked the charity to do it. "
The Commission added that it would not hesitate to take action if necessary.
Earlier it intervened to exhort Rowntree's trust – which is in no way related to Joseph Rowntree Foundation – stop funding the controversial Cage advocacy group as a result of an uproar against Islamic State killer "Jihadi John" in 2015.
Asim Qureshi, then Cage's research director, claimed that the hangman – widely identified as London student Mohammed Emwazi – "extremely kind" and "extremely gentle" man.
Belfast Telegraph Digital
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