FakeCharity Of The Day

From the BBC:

More babies are at risk of being born into poverty because of tax and benefit changes in the UK, a charity says.

A report by Family Action warns that new parents and babies will bear the brunt of cuts to benefits and tax credit support to families....

We can download their accounts from the Charities Commission website. Their total income is £23,111,000, and page 16 tells us that £18,847,000 of this is 'statutory funding' (there's a list of all the local councils and other government bodies who pay for their services on page 25).

FakeCharities disappeared from the radar screen shortly before the General Election, but it seems that they are now going back to their old ways. Presumably the Lib-Cons have now got their own placemen in, er, place and so they are saying things that the government wants to hear again.

You can tell that the government co-ordinates all this, because the BBC are using the old FakeCharity article template, which always conclude, as this one does, with something along the lines of this: "A spokesman for the Treasury said: "The government is committed to reducing the deficit in a fair way that still supports the most vulnerable in society; reforming the welfare system to put it on a sustainable long-term footing whilst preserving key benefits for vulnerable people."