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Charity Advertising Scam
Chestnut_Crusher
Posts: 2 Newbie
If a company called ‘Chestnut House’ who claims to raise money for sick and dying children on behalf of the ‘Honeyrose Foundation’ contacts you, there is some very important information you need to know about them before you commit to anything. They cold call businesses and ask them to help sick kids by buying an advert on their wall planners. Please read the following very carefully…
The DTI closed them down on Thursday January 18th 2007 they were called Hamilton Forbes Ltd at the time. This is for the same reasons they were closed down when they were called Barrington House Publishing Company Ltd and Barrington House Publishing Corporation Ltd. These reports should explain why they were closed down…
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http://www.whitehallpages.net/modules.php?...c=6&catid=0
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/investigates/...-name_page.html
Each times the Department of Trade and Industry catch up with them, someone else from within the firm takes over and the real owner or one of his family members is then employed on a very large salary. This time Chestnut House is ‘run’ by his former accounts manager and her boyfriend. The real owners wife is employed as an office manager, taking most of the profits in her wage. They are now in office in Halsall, Lancs. They work on behalf of the Honeyrose Foundation who, by the way only send adults over the age of 40 on days out and only get 5% of Chestnut Houses profits - NOT what they tell you when they try to get you to buy advertising space. They are now calling themselves Chestnut House but have another trading name of Armstrong Faith.
PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION TO ANY BUSINESS OWNERS YOU MAY KNOW AND HELP STOP THESE UNSCRUPULOUS CONMEN ONCE AND FOR ALL
* If the links I provided above do not work please go to www.mirror.co.uk and type 'hamilton forbes' in the search box, also look at 'hamilton forbes' and 'chestnut house honeyrose foundation' in Google.
The DTI closed them down on Thursday January 18th 2007 they were called Hamilton Forbes Ltd at the time. This is for the same reasons they were closed down when they were called Barrington House Publishing Company Ltd and Barrington House Publishing Corporation Ltd. These reports should explain why they were closed down…
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http://www.whitehallpages.net/modules.php?...c=6&catid=0
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/investigates/...-name_page.html
Each times the Department of Trade and Industry catch up with them, someone else from within the firm takes over and the real owner or one of his family members is then employed on a very large salary. This time Chestnut House is ‘run’ by his former accounts manager and her boyfriend. The real owners wife is employed as an office manager, taking most of the profits in her wage. They are now in office in Halsall, Lancs. They work on behalf of the Honeyrose Foundation who, by the way only send adults over the age of 40 on days out and only get 5% of Chestnut Houses profits - NOT what they tell you when they try to get you to buy advertising space. They are now calling themselves Chestnut House but have another trading name of Armstrong Faith.
PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION TO ANY BUSINESS OWNERS YOU MAY KNOW AND HELP STOP THESE UNSCRUPULOUS CONMEN ONCE AND FOR ALL
* If the links I provided above do not work please go to www.mirror.co.uk and type 'hamilton forbes' in the search box, also look at 'hamilton forbes' and 'chestnut house honeyrose foundation' in Google.
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Chestnut House are mentioned in this newspaper link -
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/07/charity-conman-peter-lyon-gets.html#comments0 -
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thanks, liking that pagefor more info check out www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk . You'll find me there.
New Year's Resolution: Post less unnecessary posts. (and that was 2007)
yes, I realise I may appear cold and heartless a lot of the time.0
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