A charity set up to preserve Battle of Britain monuments has claimed it is the latest victim of the debankment scandal sweeping the UK.
Speaking to Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who lifted the lid on UK banks’ debankment practices after publicly revealing that his own accounts had been closed last year, the Battle of Britain Memorial Charity Group Captain Patrick Tootar, the group’s honorary secretary, unfairly accused Barclays Bank. The account was closed and £8,000 of donations were lost.
of charity work A national monument to the “minority” of Sir Winston Churchill’s famous speech praising the courage of Royal Air Force pilots during the Battle of Britain during World War II will be built in Capel-le-Ferne, Kent. was established to save. This achievement is immortalized in the words of a wartime British leader: “Never before had so many owed so much to so few.”
FOLKESTONE, UNITED KINGDOM – OCTOBER 28: Battle of Britain National The Few Memorial on October 28, 2010 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. (Photo courtesy of Indigo/Getty Images)
“This battle has been going on for two years,” Tutal said, explaining that he received a letter from the bank closing the charity’s original account due to money laundering concerns.
“I don’t think we did much money laundering in the Battle of Britain,” he told GB News.
“Can you believe that even this is now facing debankment?”
Exclusive: Battle of Britain Memorial Charity has its bank account terminated by Barclays. @Nigel_Farage We speak to Group Captain Patrick Tootar, Honorary Executive Director of the charity. pic.twitter.com/WJqVPtPKKe
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“But what’s frustrating to me is that when you go to the Charity Commission website, it says we’re still there. We’re probably still receiving inheritances, so we’re continuing with our old charity number. He continued: If it was mentioned in the will, it was the ‘Battle of Britain Memorial Trust’.
“I’m halfway through, but last year they said, don’t worry, you can provide the same account number, the same sort code, and you can tell the employee to stop or change the standing order.” There’s no need to do that, I said.
“We wrote to all these people and told them we understood that Barclays was fixing the problem, and finally, at the end of October, we got a message saying, ‘We’ve closed your account.’ came.”
Mr Tootar said Barclays had offered £100 compensation for their problems and said: Our account held all the money the charity needed to maintain the site. ”
Barclays said in a statement: Said: “Barclays does a lot of charity work across the UK and we recognize the contribution they make to society. We fully support our customers and comply with regulatory requirements to prevent financial crime. It is important that we fully understand our customers’ activities to ensure that we are able to meet our obligations and ongoing responsibilities. You cannot comment on your account.”
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