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Chris Scott
Chief Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 883
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 09, 2004 - 8:18 am: |       |
Hi all
Found a long article from "The Guardian" dated June 3, 2002, which detailed two little known royal charities which were about to be scrapped. The opening paragraph reads:
Two royal charity funds which are run under the patronage of Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, and have had a shadowy existence for more than 200 years are to be wound down, Downing Street has told the Guardian.
The two accounts, the Royal Bounty and Special Services Fund and the Royal Charity Fund, are financed by the taxpayer through annual payments from the Queen's civil list but they have little to do with the royal family. They are administered by Downing Street and are "at the absolute disposal of the prime minister" and his wife.
The reference to Sickert's benefitting reads:
The official aims of the two charities date back to Edmund Burke's 1782 Civil List Act and include the relief of those "in distress" and in cases of "destitution". They are separate from the Queen's Royal Almonry Fund which dispenses the maundy money every year. The Royal Bounty Fund has been used particularly to help British artists who have fallen on hard times - Walter Sickert was one beneficiary - but it is also used for "miscellaneous confidential purposes".
For anyone who wants to read the full article, it is at:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,726888,00.html
Chris |
Tommy Nilsson
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 5:37 am: | |
Hi Chris!
Thank you for the information! It would be interesting to know when Sickert got the money and how much...
Tommy
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