article_snippet: Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust had made six-figure donations to Cage, but links with the ‘warped’ campaign group prompted outrage from Westminster and the threat of a Charity Commission inquiry.
article_snippet: Last night Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Rowntree reluctantly agreed to stop bankrolling Cage after officials at the Charity Commission – furious over Cage’s support for the IS killer – threatened a statutory inquiry into the IS killer
article_snippet: Cage caused outrage the past week over the IS killer – attempts to justify the killings meted out by Kuwaiti-born Briton Emwazi, because he had claimed to have been harassed by MI5.
article_snippet: Cage has been propped up largely by grants from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust since 2007, making a combined total of £305,000.
article_snippet: the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust said the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust last grant payment to Cage was in January 2014.
article_snippet: the Rowntree charity, has also handed over £120,000 to Cage.
article_snippet: The Charity Commission wrote to the Rowntree and Roddick charities on Monday, giving the Rowntree and Roddick charities 24 hours to give unambiguous assurances the Rowntree and Roddick charities would stop funding Cage. '
article_snippet: While officials at Roddick gave ‘immediate’ guarantees officials at Roddick would pull the plug, the Rowntree charity dragged the Rowntree charity heels and agreed to stop funding Cage only after The Charity Commission threatened to launch an inquiry into how it is run.
article_snippet: It is extraordinary how officials at Roddick dithered over whether Cage was a suitable organisation to fund.
article_snippet: The Charity Commission started investigating both the Rowntree and Roddick charities over the Rowntree and Roddick charities funding of Cage in 2013.
article_snippet: last week Lord Carlile, a former independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said: ‘Cage is an organisation with a warped view.
article_snippet: Sources at The Charity Commission believe officials at Rowntree may have been ‘duped’ when officials at Rowntree agreed to support Cage.
article_snippet: In a statement Rowntree said: ‘In the past week we have been put under intense regulatory pressure to rule out any future funding of Cage.
article_snippet: In the light of regulatory pressure, and to protect the interests of all our grantees and the other work of the Trust, our have decided to confirm our will not fund Cage either now or in the future.
article_snippet: A The Charity Commission spokesman said: ‘Statements by Cage officials heightened concerns about the use of charitable funds to support Cage officials activities.
article_snippet: In these circumstances, [our] required unequivocal assurances from the two charities that these circumstances have ceased funding Cage and had no intention of doing so in the future.
article_snippet: our are glad both The Roddick Foundation and the Trust have ceased funding Cage.
article_snippet: A Cage spokesman said last night:
highlights_snippet: Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust had made six-figure donations to Cage .
  
highlights_snippet: Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has now reluctantly agreed to stop bankrolling Cage .
  