Less than two weeks after Madeleine McCann disappeared, the family and friends of the McCann family set up a company called Madeleine's Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned Limited. Without properly setting clear objectives and policies from the start, the company was set to become the vehicle for the "official" find Madeleine campaign—whatever that actually meant. It has become a typically British thing to have financial campaigns to assist people in well publicised times of need. Usually there is no specific company set up to do this. The British banks are past masters of setting up and administering bank accounts for needy causes and tend to do so without intervention by outsiders. What made the Madeleine Fund and subsequent campaign so distasteful to many is that little of the money has been used for its intended purpose which was to find Madeleine. The company has several family members on its board of directors and this and many other factors have helped to fuel rumours as to the integrity of the management and disbursement of the donated money. Also, it is unknown who the shareholders are as they have never been divulged. The bottom line is a lot of benefactors would like to have actually seen some real stones turned over by the McCanns in the search for Madeleine.

What do you think about the Madeleine Fund?

The company secretary is also a company - BWB Secretarial Services (see above).

Gerry McCann with his £75,000-a-year public relations man Clarence Mitchell outside the £500,000 McCann home in Rothley, Leicestershire, England.

The Madeleine Fund accepted donations to help find missing Madeleine. One vehicle used to advertise and raise her profile were the yellow wristbands pictured on the left. The wristbands went on sale soon after the company was formed and are still on sale via the company website for a whopping £2 each. This may not seem like a lot of money but considering anyone can buy custom silicone wristbands for less than 14 pence each, it is scandalous that the Madeleine Fund are selling them at a profit of over 1300%.

Considering the McCanns are believed to earn in excess of £120,000 a year it seems inconceivable that two high-earning doctors should be so strapped for cash that they had to "raid the cookie jar" to make two mortgage payments reported to total £4,000. (Click here to see the Sky News article). Why were two supposedly wealthy doctors so hard up that they needed donations from the public to pay for their mortgage and living expenses?

Three days after the company was set up, a trademark was registered with the UK Intellectual Property Office. The trademark (number 2456061) is type "WO" and is in classes 09, 16, 36 and 41. (Click here to view the trademark details and click here for the FindMadeleine website). It seems inconceivable that a few days after your daughter goes missing, a parent would be in the frame of mind to want to turn their daughter's eye defect into a trademark.

Here at TruthforMadeleine, we are trying to establish the degree of satisfaction experienced with the fund and the way it has been created and administered. If you have the time and would like to participate in our survey, please fill out the form and click the submit button. All information is held in total confidentiality. Depending on the degree of participation in this survey, it may be possible to create a sizeable petition. If so, we will present the results to Madeleine Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned Ltd.