Tvind is a global organization founded in Denmark in the 1970s that operates teacher training colleges, clothing collection businesses (Planet Aid, Humana), development projects, and various commercial enterprises across more than 50 countries. The organization has been the subject of investigations regarding its financial structure and labor practices.

Tvind Alert is an investigative journalism archive documenting the Tvind organization's global operations from 2001-2022. Founded by J. Durham and J. Jakobsen, the site preserves court documents, volunteer testimonies, media coverage, and investigative reports about the Tvind network.

How are Tvind companies connected?

Tvind operates through a network of legally separate entities including teacher training colleges, NGOs (Humana People to People), clothing collection businesses (Planet Aid, USAgain), and development projects. Investigations have examined financial relationships and shared management among these entities.

Why was this archive created?

This archive preserves investigative journalism and public documents about the Tvind organization for research, transparency, and historical documentation. The original TvindAlert.com operated from 2001-2022 and was restored from Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) snapshots in memory of journalist Wade Larsen.

Green World

📚 Historical Archive Notice

This content is from the original TvindAlert.com (2001-2022), preserved for historical and research purposes. Some images or documents may be unavailable.

UK Company number: 3558720

Last known addresses:

Hayes Industrial Estate
Halesowen Road
Lye,
Stourbridge
West Midlands

The Engine Workshops,
Dock Road
Sharpness
Kent

This company is the latest Teachers Group's company in the UK. It was formed after Humana UK was closed down by the Charity Commission in 1997-8 and is a company, not a registered charity. It has several hundred used clothes recycling boxes in the Midlands, western and southern parts of England. Its directors include husband and wife team Torben and Birgit Soe, both Danish members of the Teachers Group. It is currently the subject of complaints to the Charity Commission because of the claims it makes to support the environment.

Unlike most other Tvind used clothes concerns, Green World raises money not 'for the poor in Africa' but 'for the environment' and gives it to the supposed 'Gaia-Movement Trust'. It is estimated to earn nearly 500,000 a year. But where does the money go? The 'charity' it supports is an accommodation address in Switzerland

It is currently the subject of a complaint to the Charity Commission

Charity's recycling claims mislead public from the Independent on Sunday, London, 17th December 2000. By Michael Durham

Investigative article discovers links between Green World Recycling and the discredited Humana UK, a Tvind charity closed down in 1998. Although it claims to support 18 different environmental aims, the investigation did not find any evidence for environmental work or charity of any kind. The company is not a charity and money appeared to be passing between the UK and the Holland House company in Jersey, and to a mailbox in Switzerland that proved to be linked to Tvind in Amsterdam.

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(Private Limited Company, no share capital)

Directors:

Torben Soe, Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK (general manager)

Ann Margaret Jonsson, Tbilisi, Georgia

Marianne Korbmann, St Petersburg, Russia

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