A genuinely good cause or lining their own pockets?

[Driver101]

http://www.mymilliontoone.com/

This appeared on a few websites coming up to Christmas with a final push to raise £1M after raising very little for long enough.

Since shortly before Christmas all the news feeds and press have gone dead.

Anyone any idea if they actually raised the £1M, or has something else gone on?

[Driver101]

mybrainhurts said:

Sorry, I looked at the site and gave up after 30 seconds.

The website isn't great, I didn't think I'd link any more to put over my opinion. I know PH loves a good mud digging exercise.

[Driver101]

Kiltie said:

I had a three minute scoot around that website and I genuinely don't have a clue what it's all about.

That Richard E Grant is a fud though.

The story was the woman who runs the site wanted to raise £1M to build and fund the running costs of a house for 8 orphaned children in Africa. I didn't quite follow why she specifically picked just 8 children.

In order to do this she gave up her TV job and created a limited company to raise this £1M. You'll see she's on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin and all the usual places.

She asked people to donate only £1 each(people did pay more) as that's money they wouldn't miss. After doing it for a lengthy period of time the non-profit making company made very little money towards the actual cause. They suddenly tried much harder on the run up to Christmas to hit their target that involved a tour of many of the biggest UK cities.

Reading their social media pages they posted a lot and managed to get a fair amount of press with their tour. After the 20th of December all their trail just seems to die.

I'm curious if the house has gone ahead, or this non-profit making company has used all the funds raised to cover its costs?

If it hasn't gone ahead, where is all the money? Was it a genuine effort, or just make a few quid for themselves?

Edited by Driver101 on Sunday 1st February 01:11