Watchdog investigates Russia-linked Downside Up charity that lists Boris Johnson as a patron

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Watchdog investigates Russia-linked Downside Up charity that lists Boris Johnson as a patron
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The Charity Commission has opened a compliance case into Downside Up, a British-Russian organisation that provides support to families of children with Down’s syndrome

Accounts for the 2020 financial year show that it received almost £264,000 worth of grants from the Committee of Public Relations of Moscow Government and Russian Presidential Grants Fund.In the past three years it has received about £385,000 from the presidential grants fund, to support projects for children and their families around Russia.

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