FakeCharity Du Jour

From the BBC:

Campaigners have questioned whether a drive to improve child mental health services will prove successful. Ministers are due to set out a new strategy for mental health in England.

Improving access to counselling for children - 10% of whom develop a mental health problem at some point - is expected to form a central plank of the £400m investment programme...

You have to scroll down a fair bit to find out what the fakecharity is called, namely Young Minds (don't get me started on the "Future Vision Coalition, an umbrella group of mental health charities..."). That rings a bell, because I've looked at their accounts before (scroll down to the end of this post).

The BBC vary their fakecharity article template in another respect: instead of having a 'government spokesman' agreeing that 'more must be done' right at the end, it's actually Deputy PM Nick Clegg who steps up to the mark.

But just to keep you updated, their March 2010 accounts show that their income from DCLG, Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief was down to £928,957 (note 2, page 18) and they received another £180,000 for 'consultancy'.