LJ - this really is thread creep, and I didn't want to get into this discussion - but, briefly:
I’m sure you must know that any organisation with an annual turnover of more than a million is not run by people on ”reasonable expenses”. The very successful charity that was the Vulcan To The Sky Trust was run, like most charities of that sort of size, by people being paid appropriately and entirely legally.
No donor was forced to pay anything to the charity that they didn’t want to. And there were many thousands of volunteers who also gave happily of their time, knowing that some in the organisation were being paid.
If you know of any evidence of illegal activity, then you must, of course, bring it to the attention of the appropriate authorities. But perhaps “others …. appeared to have their snouts in the trough” won’t quite cut it with those authorities.
Now back to HAV - and I do hope it goes as well as XH558 did!
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