The new owners of Brierfield Mills, the Birmingham based disaster relief charity, Islamic Help, are to meet local MP, Gordon Prentice.

The MP said: "I have received an approach from the charity’s advisers telling me that the trustees are disappointed with some of the news stories going around and that they would welcome a face-to-face meeting to explain their work and to tell me of their plans for Brierfield Mills."

"They believe such a meeting would, in their words, help clear away some of the confusion."

"I have told them I am more than happy to meet the trustees but, before such a meeting, I would need to be assured that all the money donated to the Pendle Boarding School for Girls project had been returned to the donors."

"I also feel a statement about the appeal for funds for the boarding school project should be posted on the charity's website. This appeal for money was for a purpose outside the charitable objects of Islamic Help."

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