By Jonathan Bucks For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:02 BST, 15 June 2019 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 15 June 2019
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The founders of the controversial JustGiving fundraising website have each bought new multi-million-pound homes.
Zarine Kharas and Anne-Marie Huby created the site – which allows people to raise money for charities and worthy causes – in 2001 but faced criticism when it emerged that fundraisers were being charged a five per cent ‘platform fee’ on donations.
The pair sold the firm for £95 million in 2017 and The Mail on Sunday can reveal they have now both bought plush London properties.
Zarine Kharas and Anne-Marie Huby created the site – which allows people to raise money for charities and worthy causes – in 2001 but faced criticism when it emerged that fundraisers were being charged a five per cent ‘platform fee’ on donations
Kharas, 68, a former lawyer who received a damehood in 2015 for services to business and charity, purchased a four-bedroom flat in Paddington, West London, earlier this year for £3.7 million, while Ms Huby, 52, last year moved into a £2 million three-bedroom house in Islington, North London.
JustGiving was established at the height of the dotcom bubble. Since then, it has enabled charities to raise more than £3.8
