FakeCharity Of The Day

From a BBC article entitled Teen pregnancies 'rise slightly', we get the inevitable rent-a-quotes from "sex education charity Straight Talking" and "sexual health advice charity Brook".

Brook is a fakecharity, as I mentioned a year ago along with a few others*. Straight Talking was a new one to me, righty-ho, let's have a quick look at their accounts, here we go, Note 2, page 10:

Incoming resources from charitable activities
Association of London Government £34,343
Bridge House Trust - £15,500
Barking & Dagenham - £20,660
Gruntvig ESF - £4,586
Awards for All - £4,550
Kingston Council - £2,000
Department for Education £35,000
Trafford Metropolitan Borough £17,121
Other £2,505

Which adds up to a princely £136,265, completely dwarfing** charitable donations of £79,348. And what might those 'charitable activities' be?

"This year Straight Talking delivered 127 courses in 23 secondary schools in the London Boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, Sutton, Barking & Dagenham, Colchester and Surrey. All types of schools participated including Pupil Referral Units and Special Needs Schools."

Right, so basically the government pays them £1,000 a pop to 'deliver a course' at a school. Dude, WTF? If you seriously want to cut teenage pregancies, just scrap all the extra benefits to which young single mothers are entitled to, job done.

* Follow that link if you want to find out my comedy-quangista-name-of-the-year at bullet point 3).

** Are we still allowed to use that expression?