Is the maddie fund.... now a secret fund

[faithlilly]

It really is funny. April Jones’s family who you would imagine were in a much more precarious financial situation than the McCanns were quite willing to divide money sent directly to help their family between charitable causes while accepting a proportion  for themselves. The McCanns found a way to have it all. Through all that trauma and distress they managed to remain financially savvy it would seem.

[Vertigo Swirl]

It really is funny. April Jones’s family who you would imagine were in a much more precarious financial situation than the McCanns were quite willing to divide money sent directly to help their family between charitable causes while accepting a proportion  for themselves. The McCanns found a way to have it all. Through all that trauma and distress they managed to remain financially savvy it would seem.

Did the Jones need money to mount their own investigation into their daughter’s disappearance?

[Vertigo Swirl]

It really is funny. April Jones’s family who you would imagine were in a much more precarious financial situation than the McCanns were quite willing to divide money sent directly to help their family between charitable causes while accepting a proportion  for themselves. The McCanns found a way to have it all. Through all that trauma and distress they managed to remain financially savvy it would seem.

Re: your last sentence.  The April Fund was shared out over a year after April was taken, and after her death was confirmed and Bridger apprehended.  The situation is quite different to the McCann case.

[misty]

It really is funny. April Jones’s family who you would imagine were in a much more precarious financial situation than the McCanns were quite willing to divide money sent directly to help their family between charitable causes while accepting a proportion  for themselves. The McCanns found a way to have it all. Through all that trauma and distress they managed to remain financially savvy it would seem.

Are you suggesting you'd be happy with the same proportional split for the OFM Fund as April's to reflect their increased losses & expenditure?
(For the record, I don't object to a single pound  given to April's parents & I wish there was a fair way to compensate for such tragedies).

[Alice Purjorick]

What was the purpose of your bullet point post then, if not to imply that the McCanns were somehow morally lacking for failing to set up the “Foundation” (sic) as a charity?

I don't see why you put Foundation within speechy marky pieces. If you check the articles of association it says hereinafter referred to as The Foundation. Seems like you know not of that which you speak. That is not a good start. 
I did not suggest/imply/state the McCanns were morally lacking.
You said I did.
I notice you give the bullet points a wide berth. I would have thought you would have argued with them rather than just make stuff up.

[faithlilly]

In the pursuit of accuracy it is worth pointing out that the McCanns weren’t aware that the would have to fund a private investigation when they decided that they’d keep all the money to themselves.

[Vertigo Swirl]

In the pursuit of accuracy it is worth pointing out that the McCanns weren’t aware that the would have to fund a private investigation when they decided that they’d keep all the money to themselves.

Were they supposed to have given it all away by that point then?

[faithlilly]

Are you suggesting you'd be happy with the same proportional split for the OFM Fund as April's to reflect their increased losses & expenditure?
(For the record, I don't object to a single pound  given to April's parents & I wish there was a fair way to compensate for such tragedies).

Why not?

[misty]

Why not?

Your repetitious inquisitions into the way the fund is managed suggest you wouldn't approve of the McCanns personally profiting from donations.

[faithlilly]

Your repetitious inquisitions into the way the fund is managed suggest you wouldn't approve of the McCanns personally profiting from donations.

I don’t think they should ‘profit’. Even if it was an abduction do you think they should have  ‘profited’ even from that ?

[misty]

I don’t think they should ‘profit’. Even if it was an abduction do you think they should have  ‘profited’ even from that ?

Do you have any objection to the notable profits made by others, who benefited outwith the Fund, from the McCanns' situation?

[Vertigo Swirl]

I don’t think they should ‘profit’. Even if it was an abduction do you think they should have  ‘profited’ even from that ?

Victims of crime sonetimes can “profit” though, in various ways, through money raised by the public, by compensation paid by writing books etc.   

[Angelo222]

Victims of crime sonetimes can “profit” though, in various ways, through money raised by the public, by compensation paid by writing books etc.

Who was a victim of crime?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Who was a victim of crime?

In this case the whole McCann family.  Madeleine firstly, but also her parents, siblings, grandparents. IMO.

[kizzy]

It really is funny. April Jones’s family who you would imagine were in a much more precarious financial situation than the McCanns were quite willing to divide money sent directly to help their family between charitable causes while accepting a proportion  for themselves. The McCanns found a way to have it all. Through all that trauma and distress they managed to remain financially savvy it would seem.

Excellent post.

Seems they don't have to say what they spent the money on either. imo