Commercial used clothes company based in Corby
More than 1000 boxes across UK
Not a registered charity. This is a commercial used-clothed company. Not coincidentally, it was started by the Teachers Group in 1998, just a few months after a previous registered charity Humana UK, was closed down by the Charity Commission. Planet Aid UK is entirely operated and controlled by the Teachers Group, just like Humana was, although as a registered company it is out of reach of charity regulators. We believe very little of Planet Aid’s profits support charity work, with a large proportion instead being transferred into the Teachers Group in unacceptably high ‘operating costs’, commercial transactions, loans, and payments to an account in Switzerland.
Planet Aid is run by Teachers Group member Torben Soe. His wife, Birgit Soe, runs a nearly identical company based in the West Midlands, Green World Recycling. Both are linked to a TG registered charity DAPP UK, and to the CICD school near Hull.
NEWS
2006: Asda evicts Planet Aid from its supermarkets
ASDA has evicted a network of clothing recyclers from its car parks after discovering that the companies behind donation bins are not registered charities. The supermarket sent a legal letter to Planet Aid, a company linked to the mysterious Danish organisation Humana People to People, asking it to remove all bins … some had appeared overnight without permission. (The Times, 4th September 2006)
Last updated 30th July 2010
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