<Li> John "Bunter" Graham, also referred to as "Mr. F" (1976--present) </Li> <P> The strength of the UVF is uncertain . The first Independent Monitoring Commission report in April 2004 described the UVF / RHC as "relatively small" with "a few hundred" active members "based mainly in the Belfast and immediately adjacent areas". Historically, the number of active UVF members in July 1971 was stated by one source to be no more than 20 . Later, in September 1972, Gusty Spence said in an interview that the organisation had a strength of 1,500 . A British Army report released in 2006 estimated a peak membership of 1,000 . Information regarding the role of women in the UVF is limited . One study focusing in part on female members of the UVF and Red Hand Commando noted that it "seem (ed) to have been reasonably unusual" for women to be officially asked to join the UVF . Another estimates that over a 30 - year period women accounted for just 2% of UVF membership at most . </P> <P> Prior to and after the onset of the Troubles the UVF carried out armed robberies . This activity has been described as its preferred source of funds in the early 1970s, and it continued into the 2000s with the UVF in Co Londonderry being active . Members were disciplined after they carried out an unsanctioned theft of £ 8 million of paintings from an estate in Co Wicklow in April 1974 . Like the IRA, the UVF also operated black taxi services, a scheme believed to have generated £ 100,000 annually for the organisation . The UVF has also been involved in the extortion of legitimate businesses, although to a lesser extent than the UDA, and was described in the fifth IMC report as being involved in organised crime . In 2002 the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee estimated the UVF's annual running costs at £ 1--2 million per year, against an annual fundraising capability of £ 1.5 million . </P> <P> In contrast to the IRA, overseas support for loyalist paramilitaries including the UVF has been limited . Its main benefactors have been in central Scotland, Liverpool, Preston and the Toronto area of Canada . Supporters in Scotland have helped supply explosives and guns . Although Scottish support for loyalist paramilitaries has been hindered by the strong disapproval of the mainstream Orange Order in that country, it is estimated that the UVF nevertheless received hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations to its Loyalist Prisoners Welfare Association . </P>

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