Monday 12 April 2010

Yes we can!

JuliaM asks: Can we stop calling them 'charities' now?.

If you enjoy a nice bit of fakecharity porn, check out Disability Essex' 2009 accounts. 94% of its 'Voluntary Income' (Note 2, page 16) is grants from the following:

Capacity Builders* £102,261
Essex County Council £62,353
The Big Lottery £51,165
NHS SW Essex £7,471

Southend on Sea Borough Council £5,000
Lloyds TSB Foundation £3,052
Fowler, Smith and Jones £3,000

Essex Community Foundation £2,000

* From their overview: "Capacitybuilders and its main programmes are funded by the Office of the Third Sector, part of the Cabinet Office."

Also highly enjoyable is the list on Page 6:

Relationships with other organisations

London Metropolitan University - Partners in development of an lntelligent Keyboard software system funded by BERR.
COVER - Members of East of England Community and Voluntxal'y Forum.
DIAL-UK - Member of the national Disability Information Advice Line service.
Disability Infonnation Services Hertfordshire (DISH) - Partnership to share expertise on publications, disability employment outreach and IT. The marketing of these services is now undertaken in partnership with Disability Essex,
under the trading style Disability Herts.
Essex Access Forum - Essex Disabled People's Association Limited provides the secretariat and supports the field officer serving the County's District and Borough Access Groups.
Essex Southend and Thurrock Infrastructure Consortium (ESTIC) - Member
Essex Association of Community Voluntary Services (EACVS) - Member
Essex Playing Fields Association - Member and advisor on equipment for disabled adults and children.
Employment Service (DWP) - Holders of the Quality Mark 'Positive About Disabled People.'
Essex County Council Social Care - Essex Disabled People's Association Limited receives a grant, under a service level agreement, for the provision of support for disabled people in the county.
Essex Local Councils & Health Authorities - Essex Disabled People's Association Limited received grants 2008/09 for the provision of various services from:
Brentwood Borough Council
Rochford District Council
Southend Borough Council
Thurrock Council
Essex Police - Partners in the 'Hate Crime' initiative. Training of student officers. Service Level Agreement.
Essex Rural Transport Partnership - Member
National Register of Access Consultants - Aftiliate (corporate member).
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation - Full member. Distribution of RADAR keys.
East of England Disability Network - Member and secretariat (trades as Disability East) funded 1 October 2008 to 31 March 20l1 by Capacity Builders.
UK Green Building Council - Elected as a full member in November 2008.

1 comments:

JuliaM said...

Cheers for link. They really are quite something, aren't they?

The breathtaking arrogance of this man pleading for more government regulation that will benefit his organisation - and not a peep from the reporter - was utterly stunning.

At least, until I remembered that we don't really have 'reporters' in the old sense any more...