Big difference between standard homegrown beggars, random people begging from need and professional beggars who work Europe.
doadeer possibly if it's the same one operating in Crouch end and sometimes Highgate. He and at least three of the A406 lot and two of the current older ladies, live in a shared house in Wood Green, and are dropped off and picked up. The lot with the short crutches lived there before them.
Two of the ladies opposite the RA are pitched at Hyde Park and are part of a family group who were in N.London accommodation until recently.
Bulgarians at Finsbury Park mosque are definitely gang run allegedly by Albanians.
Who is who, is quite complicated. Some are here voluntarily and the gangs are work opportunities for them with shared profits, as they arrange everything including when they get arrested or deported.
The women nearly always belong to this group.
Others always men, come over as laborers but prove to be no good or there isn't enough work, and are sent to work alongside the first group by handlers, but they get the worse pitches and don't make much.
The ones with drink and drug issues are often in trouble with the handlers, and reputed to be entirely trafficked to repay debts.
The 2 well known North London blind accordion players aren't gang run, they're independent Roma pan handlers, as are the Roma Big Issue sellers.