but it is not an irrefutable fact seeing as the charities commission were willing to bend over backwards and accommodate the mccanns with a few changes, but they were in too much of a hurry, having already set the fund launch date for the media, they were not in any way interested in charity status were they?
I think you are probably right, and that the McCanns were never really interested in making the Fund a charity
I am reminded of Kate's uncle, Brian Kennedy, stating clearly, quite early on, that the Fund would primarily be used to cover legal fees
If that was the true intention then charitable status was out of the question from the start
I'm not sure about that.
In context, everyone was running around trying to get some kind of structure set up as fast as possible.
Imagine the chaos: you're not calmly setting up a business or charity after a mature reflection process, you're in a panic, listening to everyone and no one at the same time, wondering what the hell you should be doing. Misunderstandings are likely.
According to Enid O'Dowd:
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n the context of the financial help that was then being offered, Kate says the IFLG paralegal advised them to set up a 'fighting fund'. The IFLG would devise the objectives of the fund and instruct a leading charity law firm Bates Wells Braithwaite (BWB) to draw up Articles of Association.Was BWB fully aware of the entire situation at the time, or did they simply fill in a standard application form based on a half-understood instruction?
Looking into the possibility of charity status may have been worth examining, but it wouldn't have been viable in those circumstances.