"Irish Soup Kitchens"

Graham

I spotted a sign on a retail unit in Dublin 'Irish Soup Kitchen' coming soon.

Unit on the South Quays heading towards Heuston.

Nokia6230i

blue_blue wrote: »

Easier solution. Go to http://imgur.com/ Drop your images onto that page, it'll automatically upload them and create an image post. Just copy the URL in the browser window.

Thanks. Here's the photos I took few weeks ago on Capel St.

Still no Chy No. but it is Irish Soup Kitchens Ltd.

http://imgur.com/a/SqwGw

pillphil

Is that figure 11 million?

spurious

Ardfinnan House seems to be chockablock with dissolved companies.

Still no official notice that it's a charity, just that they have permission to sell their pens.
Dodgy all round.

Is that Comic Sans on the Garda letter?

delta_bravo

A chief superintendent using comic sans is very very odd. Considering the letter header is a totally different font

pillphil

F*cking hell, they're big pictures.

pillphil

delta_bravo wrote: »

A chief superintendent using comic sans is very very odd. Considering the letter header is a totally different font

It looks like it was an email he printed off and had stamped by someone in the superintendents office?

Nokia6230i

€11, 200, 000 is the figure alright. Do we put it down to bravado or a typo or a chancer......another C****e job?

superb choice of username

Nokia6230i wrote: »

€11, 200, 000 is the figure alright. Do we put it down to bravado or a typo or a chancer......another C****e job?

Considering their TOTAL turnover, since the company was incorporated, was €115,032 (€67,546 in year ended 31/12/15 and €47,486 in 13 month period since incorporation) I would love to know how they have funded giving away so much food....

The fact that they have gone to so much trouble to manipulate the rules (assuming their documentation is correct) in such a way which allows them to avoid getting any permit for fundraising, it extremely worrying. Which person that gives them their change realises they are buying a pen?

And what is this lottery business? Never saw that before and there is no mention of that in their Financial Statements anywhere.

beanhead

Bought a ticket 15 mins ago from a door to door in Greystones and was curious, the 'volunteer' seemed to be maybe early 20s, possibly phillipino. Was wearing a ID lanyard around his neck and had some I guess questionable documentation. There was a woman's name on the licence the surname was O'Neil

The convo was about setting up a kitchen near BTs in town. I entered this raffle

ibarelycare

beanhead wrote: »

Bought a ticket 15 mins ago from a door to door in Greystones and was curious, the 'volunteer' seemed to be maybe early 20s, possibly phillipino. Was wearing a ID lanyard around his neck and had some I guess questionable documentation. There was a woman's name on the licence the surname was O'Neil

The convo was about setting up a kitchen near BTs in town. I entered this raffle

Why the hell did you buy a ticket if he didn't even have correct ID?

ironclaw

They were selling tickets door to door in Bray today.

DarkerSerge

Hand them a packet of soup.

ongarite

On Dawson Street yesterday.
No id or registered charity details available from the collector.
Something very suspect about this "charity"

joe stodge

Had a lot of run ins with them camping up in the doorway of a shop I work in. Always scarpered when we ran the Gardai and always were being operated by members of the travelling community.

Gavin "shels"

Was one outside the GPO and Henry St over Christmas.

Vunderground

I've noticed that these people have disappeared from outside the G.P.O., Penny's, Cleary's and the other parts of Dublin I used to see them in.
I wonder does anyone know how this panned out?

MysticMonk

Vunderground wrote: »

I've noticed that these people have disappeared from outside the G.P.O., Penny's, Cleary's and the other parts of Dublin I used to see them in.
I wonder does anyone know how this panned out?

Havnt seen them in Nassau st or Grafton st in a while either and they were always there.

Iedco4

Irish Soup Kitchens claim to be a Charity. They have been operating in Drogheda since 2005 and are in Navan as well. They are not registered as a Charity and I cannot understand how the Revenue Commissioners allow them to operate without a status. I’d donate only to a registered Charity, too many cowboys out there !

Iedco4

Irish Soup Kitchens claim to be a Charity. They have been operating in Drogheda since 2005 and are in Navan as well. They are not registered as a Charity and I cannot understand how the Revenue Commissioners allow them to operate without a status. I’d donate only to a registered Charity, too many cowboys out there !

Victor

Report such cases to the Garda and the Charities Regulator.

http://www.charitiesregulatoryauthority.ie/

Nokia6230i

These guys're now claiming to be opening up in Balbriggan this week above Intreo office.....

Victor

rubadub

They have an old facebook page. Lots of people asking if its a scam or otherwise being doubtful

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Irishsoupkitchens/community/?ref=page_internal

Gavin "shels"

https://www.herald.ie/news/courts/bogus-charity-man-took-advantage-of-public-says-judge-37362597.html

Different scam but same idea

Nokia6230i

Podcast BY Irish Soup Kitchens...ABOUT Irish Soup Kitchens feat. Mark O'Neill; go figure > https://soundcloud.com/user-714880100/irish-soup-kitchens-mark-oneill?fbclid=IwAR2lGNLo58DozZ7ru-SK70gvJg_cXYkQl_gxrj9ihLJvYKAGkOmUglbsgZQ

Rioga na hEireann

They are legit. Company limited by guarantee.

Cmon guys we have to support efforts like this! Saving lives of people with literally no food...

Victor

Rioga na hEireann wrote: »

They are legit. Company limited by guarantee.

Cmon guys we have to support efforts like this! Saving lives of people with literally no food...

Registered as a company, not as a charity.

https://search.cro.ie/company/CompanyDetails.aspx?id=534140&type=C

Type CLG - Company Limited by Guarantee
Number 534140
Name THE IRISH SOUP KITCHEN CENTRES COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE
Address DOLANS CORNER
SUNDAY'S GATE
DROGHEDA
CO. LOUTH
Registered 15/10/2013
Status Normal

Effective Date 15/10/2013
Last AR Date 30/09/2018
Next AR Date 30/09/2019
Last Accounts to Date 31/12/2017

L1011

Rioga na hEireann wrote: »

They are legit. Company limited by guarantee.

Cmon guys we have to support efforts like this! Saving lives of people with literally no food...

Company, not a charity doing something done more effectively by others and which you've described hyperbolicly.

Allinall

Victor wrote: »

Registered as a company, not as a charity.

https://search.cro.ie/company/CompanyDetails.aspx?id=534140&type=C

Charities are not registered as such with the CRO.

However, I can see no sign of them on

https://www.charitiesregulator.ie/en/information-for-the-public/search-the-charities-register

Which is where a legitimate charity should be registered.

Spanish Eyes

Doesn't need to be done on the main street of the Capital at all.

Business owners cannot put out a sandwich board now, and have to abide by food safety rules to within an inch of their lives.... but no problem, do haircuts and serve up soup and so on under the GPO canopy and down by BOI on College Green.

It's not as if the homeless and destitute are not supported at all, they are, by numerous charities and our taxes. I'd like to know who is behind this. If their intentions are good, and not political, it could be done quietly and unobtrusively somewhere else. Might be easier for some to access their services too, if they do not want to be seen on the main streets either.

Dignity for all.

Rioga na hEireann

L1011 wrote: »

Company, not a charity doing something done more effectively by others and which you've described hyperbolicly.

They have a website it's <SNIP>

im just saying i remember the way it was in dublin and even in other town before the 2007 crash, it was bad but now it's rediculous, every doorway on graftin street area full every night, kids growing up in hotels, kids now eating dinner on the streets

seriously i dont get why people are running this down this is a crisis right now in ireland the level of homelessness is a problem

and i dont doubt that you are an eryodite and intelligent person but seriously free food restaurants and free home delivery food parcel services there is none of the fully registered charities doing all that

all charities start somewhere before they get their charity status so efforts like this have to be supported for the greater good

Nokia6230i

Rioga na hEireann wrote: »

They have a website it's <SNIP>

im just saying i remember the way it was in dublin and even in other town before the 2007 crash, it was bad but now it's rediculous, every doorway on graftin street area full every night, kids growing up in hotels, kids now eating dinner on the streets

seriously i dont get why people are running this down this is a crisis right now in ireland the level of homelessness is a problem

and i dont doubt that you are an eryodite and intelligent person but seriously free food restaurants and free home delivery food parcel services there is none of the fully registered charities doing all that

all charities start somewhere before they get their charity status so efforts like this have to be supported for the greater good

Here's the issue I'd have; charities volunteers're **supposed** be Gda. Vetted.

These "Charitable Organisations" or Pseudo Charities of which there seems to be a multitude aren't obliged to do this.

As for Irish Soup Kitchens specifically I've said my piece earlier in this thread; my experience of them on street wasn't filling me with confidence regarding their legitimacy.

tricky D

Mod note: @Rioga na hEireann do no post that link again.

Do not respond to this message on thread.

Nokia6230i

Sorry to resurrect a zombie thread as it were but this company, if that's right name for it, them Irish Soup Kitchens Ltd. featured on my local Radio Stations 6pm News this evening; they've been going round selling ISK Ltd. scratchcards & some people've been thinking they're raising money for a local soup kitchen, officially called St. Clares Hospitality Kitchen, in Carlow town; to this end the PRO had to come out on air (they had to take down their social media presence due to anti Covid individuals targeting the kitchen on & off line in 2020 & 2021 + 2022 too) & warn people the money was not staying locally or going to them.

the boss of me

Saw a collector for this shower in Finglas Village during the week. The usual MO , sitting at a desk on a footpath trying to make it look official.

TheWonderLlama

Saw the gardai take one of these collectors and his table into custody outside Lidl in Finglas today.

As i was passing, I heard the guard say "he can come to the station to explain it himself" while the poor collector spoke on the phone to someone else.

Guessing the jig is up for these guys.

Hangdogroad

Noticed several individuals collecting for this group in Cork over the weekend. Saw one of them being detained and questioned by no less than five Gardai, kind of rough looking character. I've never come across this charity, if that's what they are , before and googling them brought up this thread.

Santa Claus

They haven’t gone away, in St Anne’s park in Raheny today taking advantage of people’s Christmas spirit….annoying that bogus charities like this are taking money out of the pockets of genuine charities like the Cappuchin day centre/penny dinners/etc

anewme

Always at the mill centre in Clondalkin. Fairly aggressive collecting as well.

Ezeoul

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121529647#Comment_121529647

Snap, I was about to post the same thing!

They're regularly there at the traffic lights between McDonalds and the Mill Centre.

Directly opposite the Garda Station!

Same table, same set up. Shaking the bucket in car windows.

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121529720#Comment_121529720

That’s exactly where I saw them too.

2 of them in an 06 LD banger constantly on the phone to someone else.

I think they have a Iicence to sell the scratch cards and that’s why the table is there. No licence to collect in buckets.

Kalimah

Saw them outside the Swan Centre in Rathmines during the week. Wouldn’t support based on what I have read here. I’ve worked for several charities as staff and as a volunteer so I know something fishy as soon as I see it.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121529720#Comment_121529720

Didn't see that but there was a lone female collector hanging around Tuthills during the week (no table or anything)

Nothing today though.

These "charities" are dodgy as f...

Would she have had permission from the centre to do that?

Although about ten years ago they used to have feckin' Scientology in there (tables and fake meters and all) so they may not have the greatest amount of cop-on.