Strategic Partnerships

Via WFW, who tipped me off to this at Anna Raccoon's, here's the list of 'Strategic Partnerships' from page 10 of the 2008 accounts of The Family & Parenting Institute, registered charity number 1077444.

Can anybody spot a single name there that doesn't itself scream "Government Department" or "FakeCharity"? (click to enlarge):


For avoidance of doubt, of their total income of £17,769,048 (profit and loss account, page 14), £7,767,051 came directly from 'The Department of Children, Schools and Families' (notes 2 and 3, page 18) and £8,043,008 from The Parenting Fund, whose website cheerfully admits that "The Parenting Fund is managed on behalf of DCSF [Department for Children, Schools and Families] by the Family and Parenting Institute".

It gets worse of course. We all knew that Labour would do a scorched earth policy before handing over the keys to the Tories, but they've pre-financed this particular bunch to continue the fight from behind enemy lines: of all that lovely taxpayers' money rolling in, they've tucked away £7,480,898 at the bank (balance sheet, page 15 of the accounts) to keep them going for a couple of years after Blulabour has taken over.

On a personal and entirely vindictive note, one of their trustees (see accounts page 2) is Chris Pond, of One parent families GINGERBREAD (FakeCharity number 230750) who replied to an email I sent him with this: "Thanks for sending the articles, which I look forward to reading. We'll be in touch once we've had a chance to look at them." That was over two years ago, and I'm still waiting.