Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Saturday, 4 November 2017

We need a better discussion of poverty and welfare

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A while back I wrote about how conservatives needed to start talking about poverty. Two days ago an old cinema in Shipley caught fire – it...
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Don't give a single penny of your hard-earned, post-tax income to Oxfam

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It's always a little depressing when you read something from a university - an elite university to boot - that is really dumb. And even...
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Friday, 29 May 2015

Everything that's wrong with lottery funding - in one quotation

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**** The quote is from a chap called Henry Kippin who works for an organisation called Collaborate CIC (who do something very important aro...
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Thursday, 1 January 2015

What on God's earth is the 'Social Integration Commission'?

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**** OK I checked it out : The Commission has three main aims: 1) Explore the nature and extent of social contact between people of ...
Sunday, 15 June 2014

Shock as prohibitionist finds Drinkaware and British Institute of Innkeeping are funded by the drinks industry!

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**** There is an academic called Jim McCambridge at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who has written some stuff about ...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Oxfam - knowingly misleading us about wealth and income

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**** I don't take the view that Oxfam's charitable purposes prevent them from raising concerns about poverty in the UK. Indeed, yo...
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Sunday, 4 May 2014

Poverty: perhaps it's time to seek solutions rather than blame?

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**** Political systems must love poverty - they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Ji...
Friday, 8 November 2013

Helping Africa (well sort of...)

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**** This is brilliant - and so true: ....
Friday, 18 October 2013

So what is a charity?

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We've been used to the debate about defining a 'charity' mostly through discussion of the beneficiaries - should Eton have c...
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

This really isn't a big surprise

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**** I'm not making a partisan point here but it shouldn't be a surprise to us that : The Work Programme is not doing enough t...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013

Leveson mission creep - a warning to voluntary organisations

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**** Folk like me (I think but am not quite sure) are not caught in the mission creep that is the proposed Royal Charter to control the pr...
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Friday, 8 February 2013

Why does this need to be said?

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**** Charities should make sure they thank their donors and "say it very quickly", according to the international art dealer a...
Thursday, 29 November 2012

New Charity Commission boss starts well...

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**** There has been a deal of debate about the funding of charities and the extent to which too many are too dependent and too close to th...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012

"MP calls for ban..." Here we go again!

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MPs like a good call for a ban - guaranteed to get them a headline! And here's Charlie Elphicke a member of the Public Administration ...
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Friday, 2 November 2012

Who needs cash?

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**** Looks like my wife might be right. She's been saying for a while that the days of cash are numbered and now I read this : The...
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012

In which the Charity Commission becomes a lawmaker...

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**** I'm inclined to side with the Charity Commission in this matter except for one minor point. It isn't the Commission's jo...
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Monday, 29 October 2012

No self-interest here at all then?

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**** What do you think? A new support service for charity chairs is aiming to launch in the spring. The proposed organisation, which i...
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Sunday, 9 September 2012

So do you care?

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A long while ago I recall – in a slightly vague and woolly way – my mum talking about recruiting volunteers. People to do simple th...
Thursday, 26 July 2012

No austerity for Oxfam!

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**** It has been a bumper year for top international aid charity, Oxfam: The charity's accounts for year end 31 March 2012, publis...
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Sunday, 1 July 2012

A brief defence of 'chuggers'

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Nearly all of us have the ability and capacity to say "no", to refuse to talk to someone in the street, to shut our door to th...