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There is a lot being ignored about the charitable sector. Before Covid it appears to me the Whitehall plan for the charitable sector was consolidation into regional and National huge charities that could be commissioned by regional or collaborating local Authorities. This con-... https://twitter.com/sileer/status/1345164958716321794
...trusts with the actual charitable sector a network of small, local volunteers with minimal paid infrastructure up to local services with paid trained staff with contracts from councils and health, flexible and responsive. The later were the backbone of the support to the vul-
...-nerable during the first and subsequent lockdowns. The smaller vol orgs effectively closed down as they had minimal funds and grass roots fundraising was lockdown as well. Across the sector there is real fear that local small scale charities may never recover. The larger...
SME and Charities are coping okay if their Local council is passporting govt grants. The sector as been hosed down with Sunak millions. Time limited, focussed, hard to spend when medium term recruitment is unwise and volunteer recruitment and training difficult. As we exit...
Lock down in 2026 
or more realistically the autumn and enter a period of recession, small charities will dwindle, volunteers will be desperate for paid work, and larger local charities already dependent on councils, foundations and Govt funding will be far more “compliant”...
or more realistically the autumn and enter a period of recession, small charities will dwindle, volunteers will be desperate for paid work, and larger local charities already dependent on councils, foundations and Govt funding will be far more “compliant”...
One of the factors stifling challenge to lockdown is the massive Govt grants to every sector of the not for profit or private care sector. I noticed that the wealthy high demand high bed occupancy care homes spoke out more than their counterparts. The back log of health treat-...
...ments alone will be and enormous political factor later in the year. The charitable sector, normally a key part of the social fabric, has been “reset” by commissioning, Lottery, Foundations & Equality law. Obviously many charities swim in wokery and oblivious to its threats...
but the casualties of lockdown, the unemployable, the low paid, bankrupted small businesses, unpaid family carers, the mentally frail, etc., all these tend to turn to local charities as local councils used austerity to raise its service eligiblity criteria. The North was badly...
hit by the austerity cuts. Into the 60% mark. The pressure will be in the Govt to do something quick to get us out of recession - I doubt stimulating the private sector or local charities will be seen as immediate enough, and expanding local govt will be to politically tempting.
Any alt political agenda must encourage private sector SME expansion, and a flourishing of truly local charities with more independent funding. Therefore allowing for a restructure of welfarism & the end of Govt legal & policy wokery - the exact opposite of current/reset policy.
