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Green World Recycling Ltd
Commercial used clothes recycling
Stourbridge, West Midlands
In 2000, the Independent on Sunday published Tvind Alert's investigation into Green World.
Planet Aid, UK Ltd
Commercial used clothes collection
Corby, Northants. Since 1998.
In 2006, supermarket chain Asda banned Planet Aid from its car parks. Read article
The CICD college
The College for International Cooperation and Development
Winestead Hall, near Hull
The paper trail
We are aware of at least seven additional UK-registered companies that have at some time been a part of the Teachers Group cobweb.
Several traded in clothes, some were holding companies, one was a 'TV station' alleged to be a key part of the 'Humanitarian Fund fraud' at the heart of the Danish court case. Others we know nothing about. All are now dissolved or inoperative.
They are:
All Europe Satellite Television Ltd
Boxes banned
2006: Asda bans 'Planet Aid' boxes
Asda has evicted Planet Aid bins from its store car parks. Full report in The Times, 4th September 2006.
Humana UK
How Humana was banned by the Charity Commission
In 1997, after a three year investigation, the UK Charity Commission wound up Humana UK's shops and clothes collection enterprise, and closed two Teachers group 'small schools' in England.
Read our dossier on the 'serious financial irregularities' that were behind Humana's closure.
Teachers Group enterprises
The Tvind Teachers Group currently has five known enterprises in the UK - four commercial companies, and one charity. They cover used clothes collection schemes, a 'training college' and a company concerned with landholdings in the Caribbean island of St Lucia.
NEW TEACHERS GROUP CHARITY
DAPP UK
Used clothes charity
Stockton-on-Tees, Durham
October 2007: The Teachers Group has succeeded in opening a new British charity, DAPP UK, ten years after Humana UK was officially wound up by the UK Charity Commission (see panel above right)
DAPP UK boxes have replaced some Planet Aid boxes removed from supermarket car parks after adverse publicity. Humana Alert dossier in preparation. Registered charity information
Mt Lezard Estate Ltd
This company, formed in 1990, appears to be concerned with management and revenues of the Teachers Group-owned Mount Lezard Estate in St Lucia.
Its current directors include several of the most senior 'inner circle' TG members considered to be part of the so-called 'TG economy' - Eva Vestergaard, Anne Hansen and Birgitte Krohn.
The story of Orphan and Community Aid
Peterborough-based Orphan and Community Aid - a UK registered charity - was created by a former employee of Planet Aid, with the proceeds initially passed as donations in good faith to DAPP 'Children's Town' projects in southern Africa.
This former employee tells us that the charity's trustees have now severed any connection with DAPP, following widespread bad publicity.
On the basis of this information we accept that Orphan and Community Aid is not a part of the Teachers Group financial network.
What the press and broadcasters say
When Ruth Sejeroe Olsen and Marlene Gunst came to London
In May 2001, shortly after the Danish police raided Tvind in Denmark, senior Teachers Group 'economy' members Marlene Gunst and Ruth Sejeroe Olsen informed the Danish authorities that they were 'emigrating' from Denmark to Britain.
Teachers Group arch-leader Mogens Amdi Petersen was also said to have moved to Britain. In fact, Petersen was still in hiding and was picked up a months later in the United States.
Humana Alert tracked Olsen and Gunst down to an accommodation address and mail-drop at 56 Gloucester Road, Kensington. Gunst was subsequently charged with fraud. She is now believed to be living in exile in Africa, Mexico or Fiji.
Who's who in the Teachers Group in the UK
Some TG members and associates in the UK
Karen Barsoe (head teacher and company secretary, CICD)
Birgit Soe (managing director of Planet Aid UK and director of CICD)
Torben Soe (managing director of Green World Recycling)
Anne Marie Madsen (DAPP UK secretary)
Trond Narvestad (DAPP UK trustee)
Susanne Windisch (DAPP UK trustee)
Rolf Jakobsson (Director, Green World. Address Winestead, East Yorkshire)
Anne Hansen (Director, Mt Lezard Estates, address in St James St, London SW1)
Tone Kvaestad (Director, Mt Lezard Estates, addressddress in London W1)
The Guardian
Enigma of The Leader. The story of Amdi Petersen. The Guardian, Monday 9th June 2003
Steen Thomsen's story
Dane Steen Thomsen was a Teachers Group member in Britain for more than 10 years, and the last headmaster of Winestead Hall School. In 1998 he resigned from the Teachers Group and wrote a report claiming that Winestead had been the Teachers Group's 'English money machine', earning an estimated £16 million. Click here to read Steen Thomsen's full report (in English)
The Observer
Click here for the Observer's stories on Winestead, 1996
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