A Disabled Charity And A PPC

taffy056

Here is another one, I know you read this Mobilise, care to comment?

MR_ANGRY wrote: »

Hi - can anyone help with this - My father (79 years old and disabled) parked in a disabled bay in B and Q using a blue badge. He came out and found the car had a ticket on !!!
He also discovered that the car had been damaged on the front. The blue badge was in the footwell. So looking at it logically, rather than help my father by asking the person who damaged the front of his car with, we presume, a trolley, for insurance details, this 'helpful person' decided to ticket the car with £100 fine - five minutes recorded on the ticket.
As you can see the trip to B and Q was a streesful time.
My questions are these :
The ticket has no date on - how are you suppose to count the 14 days timescale allowed ? Is this illegal
The colour of the car was recorded wrong - is this legal ?

I have written to the company - UKCPS - they have said they are not listening and will enforce the debt through the courts. They have 'kindly' offered to reduce the fine to £44 and enrol my father in a disabled scheme - very generous indeed.
As we have not admitted who the driver of the car was, they have said that my father will be 'made' to tell the judge' etc etc etc. Bully boy tactics .....
I am not happy as you can imagine - ----

Any help appreciated from the forum
thanks !!

trisontana

That bit about being "made to tell the judge" is very interesting in the light of today's case where another PPC (OPC) lost because they could not prove who the driver was. So more lies from UKCPS. Shame on you Mobilise.

taffy056

Our Clients

Mobilise

http://www.geminiparkingsolutions.com/our-clients.html

Says it all really, Mobilise are nothing more than clients, gaining 10% of the scam tickets, Mobilise are nothing more than a PPC now, they get money out of the scammers, that is all they care about, they endorse a scam against disabled people.

daveyjp

I've written to the Mobilise head trustee - I await a response.

taffy056

daveyjp wrote: »

I've written to the Mobilise head trustee - I await a response.

Perhaps a complaint is in line if they don't give an answer?

D. The Charity Commission and complaints

• charities deliberately being used for significant private advantage;
• where a charity's independence is seriously called into question;
• serious non-compliance in a charity that damages or has the potential to damage its reputation and/or the reputation of charities generally;

http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Publications/cc47.aspx

Coupon-mad

Good recent posts on here, I am also going to complain to the trustees of mobilise. I will also contact Helen Dolphin again as I have her contact details. This is not an issue that should be allowed to drop.

I have a word document with every UKCPS (genuine disabled victim) case reported on here, CAG and pepipoo in the last few weeks. Plus other cases I found on other forums by Googling, and the news items such as the disabled minibus banned from the retail park from picking up the people it drops off.

It would be an interesting dossier for the national press, Helen...:eek:

trisontana

I have actually received a reply from Mobilise after I had forwarded one of the stories featured on here. They are slightly confused because they think it's my father I was talking about. But never mind. Here is their reply and, as you can see it's full of the usual rubbish and PPC propaganda:-

I was sorry to hear about your father's incident at the B&Q car park which led to a parking fine.

Private car parks operators are governed by the Contract Law which requires motorists entering private car parks to abide by their terms and conditions in this case UKCPS'. Any car park managed by the UKCPS requires all the vehicles parked in disabled parking spaces to display a valid Blue Badge. Failure to display the badge will result in issuing a parking fine.

In your father's case there was a chain of events and unfortunately a parking fine was issued. You will need to satisfy the parking operator that this incident did occur by providing evidence such as reference of the logged incident with the insurance company, reference of your complaint at the B&Q customer service desk, as well photographic or CCTV evidence etc.

All tickets must have an issue date, however, colour of the car which was wrongly described on the ticket may not be good enough reason for cancellation of the ticket.

Kind regards

XXXXXX

Information Officer & Photo Editor for Mobilise Magazine

Coupon-mad

What are they on about, giving duff 'advice' like this about 'fines' and UKCPS being 'governed' by Contract Law,

Why were they not horrified by the circumstances and on the side of the disabled person??

taffy056

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Why were they not horrified by the circumstances and on the side of the disabled person??

because they are not an ethical charity, and they are nothing more than a PPC profiting out of a scam.

daveyjp

"Governed by contract law"! Oh dear - I suppose the moon is made of cheese.

It just proves they still haven't spoken to a lawyer.

Fingers in the ears singin "la la la, we aren't listening".