"In our research and development phase, the IMPRESS Project was supported by grants and donations from many sources. Individual members of the public contributed to a crowdfunding campaign. We were supported by trusts and foundations including the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, the Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust and the Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust. And we received generous donations from private individuals such as JK Rowling and David Sainsbury.
However, as a regulator, it is important for us to put a firewall in place between IMPRESS and any donors. The IPRT grant can only be withdrawn in exceptional circumstances (for instance, if IMPRESS goes bankrupt) and there is no capacity for any donor to exert influence on IMPRESS. We believe that these arrangements are the best way to ensure that we are capable of fulfilling our obligations to the public, whilst protecting our independence.
In the words of the Charity Tribunal: ‘If [an independent] regulator cannot be established by the Government for constitutional reasons and ought not to be established by the industry itself for reasons of propriety and public confidence, then the charity sector is uniquely placed to be able to offer both the mechanism and the means by which a benefit to the community as a whole can be achieved.’ "
Sounds okay to me. No innuendo needed.
You don't need to research, POGS, it's all on the link I gave you, all open and above board, along with their membership, which includes many local newspapers, along with New Internationalist.
I'm sure you'll have something snide to say about that magazine, too.
