Humana UK

 

See:  Planet Aid UK
          Green World Recycling

Closed down, 1997- 1999 following investigations by the Charity Commission into allegations of serious financial impropriety.  .      Tvind directors were barred from office and its assets were given to a new clothes recycling company, Traid, which is entirely non-Tvind.

Humana in the UK ran a chain of seven Humana charity shops, and hundreds of distinctive wooden collecting bins, collecting and recycling old clothes 'for development work in Africa'.  Its wooden clothes collection bins are still a common sight in pub and garage forecourts, but now they all belong to Traid - most have been repainted

In 1993, the Guardian ran a series of newspaper articles pointing out that only a small proportion of the money raised by Humana was going to charity, and establishing its connection to Tvind. 

"Questions have been raised over the charitys apparently commercial nature.   In 1990, the last year for which It has submitted full accounts, it donated under 10 per cent of turnover to aid projects."

[Source:  The Guardian, 1993]

Subsequent investigations by the Charity Commission confirmed something was seriously wrong.  Investigators believed there were grounds for concern about the use being made of Humana money.   In 1998 it appointed four new trustees in addition to the existing three Scandinavians, thus removing Tvind control from the charity.

In 1999 the charity formally disassociated itself from Tvind and the Commission used its powers to sack the charity's three Danish trustees.  The charity has since been renamed Traid and the  shops and clothes boxes now have absolutely no connection with Tvind  - all the money raised goes directly to legitimate charities such as Oxfam.

Tvind fought hard to maintain control of Humana.   It lost.   So it simply started over again in the UK as Planet Aid UK, which according to Humana's website, is collecting clothes in Sheffield and Northampton, and Green World Recycling  -   two companies run by a husband and wife couple, both members of the Teachers Group, which are again raising hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Newspaper articles

       Costs take 92pc of UK income    From The Guardian, London, 8th July, 1993

       Tvind being investigated      From The Caymanian Compass, 1991.   Humana reccyling boxes were banned from streets in the London borough of Hounslow after an investigation.

 

 

Company details

Company registered as a charity number 02143753

Holding company: acquired assets of Resources Recycling Ltd in 1987 and became a shareholder in 1989

Registered address:  62 Doughty Street.   Address given as: Red House School, Buxton, Norwich, Norfolk

The company has been renamed Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development (Traid) since 1998

Humana directors included:

    Mikala Gottlob    (1990-1999)

    Ellen Moeller

Secretary: 

    Mikala Gottlob  (1992-1995)

    Helle Lund   (1995-Sept 1998)     Helle Lund is now associated with Gaia in the USA.

[Source:  The Guardian, 1993]

Subsequent investigations by the Charity Commission confirmed something was seriously wrong.  Investigators believed there were grounds for concern about the use being made of Humana money.   In 1998 it appointed four new trustees in addition to the existing three Scandinavians, thus removing Tvind control from the charity.

In 1999 the charity formally disassociated itself from Tvind and the Commission used its powers to sack the charity's three Danish trustees.  The charity has since been renamed Traid and the  shops and clothes boxes now have absolutely no connection with Tvind  - all the money raised goes directly to legitimate charities such as Oxfam.

Tvind fought hard to maintain control of Humana.   It lost.   So it simply started over again in the UK as Planet Aid UK, which according to Humana's website, is collecting clothes in Sheffield and Northampton, and Green World Recycling  -   two companies run by a husband and wife couple, both members of the Teachers Group, which are again raising hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Newspaper articles

       Costs take 92pc of UK income    From The Guardian, London, 8th July, 1993

       Tvind being investigated      From The Caymanian Compass, 1991.   Humana reccyling boxes were banned from streets in the London borough of Hounslow after an investigation.

 

 

Company details

Company registered as a charity number 02143753

Holding company: acquired assets of Resources Recycling Ltd in 1987 and became a shareholder in 1989

Registered address:  62 Doughty Street.   Address given as: Red House School, Buxton, Norwich, Norfolk

The company has been renamed Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development (Traid) since 1998

Humana directors included:

    Mikala Gottlob    (1990-1999)

    Ellen Moeller

Secretary: 

    Mikala Gottlob  (1992-1995)

    Helle Lund   (1995-Sept 1998)     Helle Lund is now associated with Gaia in the USA.

Subsequent investigations by the Charity Commission confirmed something was seriously wrong.  Investigators believed there were grounds for concern about the use being made of Humana money.   In 1998 it appointed four new trustees in addition to the existing three Scandinavians, thus removing Tvind control from the charity.

In 1999 the charity formally disassociated itself from Tvind and the Commission used its powers to sack the charity's three Danish trustees.  The charity has since been renamed Traid and the  shops and clothes boxes now have absolutely no connection with Tvind  - all the money raised goes directly to legitimate charities such as Oxfam.

Tvind fought hard to maintain control of Humana.   It lost.   So it simply started over again in the UK as Planet Aid UK, which according to Humana's website, is collecting clothes in Sheffield and Northampton, and Green World Recycling  -   two companies run by a husband and wife couple, both members of the Teachers Group, which are again raising hundreds of thousands of pounds.

       Costs take 92pc of UK income    From The Guardian, London, 8th July, 1993

       Tvind being investigated      From The Caymanian Compass, 1991.   Humana reccyling boxes were banned from streets in the London borough of Hounslow after an investigation.

 

 

Company registered as a charity number 02143753

Holding company: acquired assets of Resources Recycling Ltd in 1987 and became a shareholder in 1989

Registered address:  62 Doughty Street.   Address given as: Red House School, Buxton, Norwich, Norfolk

The company has been renamed Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development (Traid) since 1998

Humana directors included:

    Mikala Gottlob    (1990-1999)

    Ellen Moeller

Secretary: 

    Mikala Gottlob  (1992-1995)

    Helle Lund   (1995-Sept 1998)     Helle Lund is now associated with Gaia in the USA.