Friday fakecharity

Let's round off the working week* with a fakecharity which Tim W mentioned en passant a couple of days ago.

I present: The Eating Disorders Association, aka 'beat'.

It's got a textbook fakecharity webpage, and utterly dishonest accounts. At the bottom of page 5 it says rather coyly "The public sector via the Department of Health and the Department of Children, Schools and Families contributed 11% of our total income".

Yeah, right.

Notes 5 and 6 on page 13 shows £99,215 income from training, conferences and publications (which sure as Hell is paid to them from other government bodies) and grants from BBC Children in Need, Big Lottery Fund, the Departments of Health and Children, Schools & Families, The Health Foundation, The Impetus Trust, Mediabox and V for Volunteering of £275,556, making £374,771 received from the government, out of total income of £781,020 (from page 9), which is more like 48% of their total income.

* I drafted this at 5 o'clock but our systems at work crashed so I'm pressing 'publish' now on my arrival home.