FakeCharity - Revision history

Paul Herring at 13:35, 23 January 2017

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Paul Herring at 12:12, 18 June 2014

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Paul Herring at 09:56, 16 October 2012

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A [[FakeCharity]] is generally considered to describe any organisation that calls itself a charity (in that its funds should come from people ''voluntarily'' providing contributions) and is generally registered with - in the UK - the Charities Commission or the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, that obtains some, most or all of its funds from sources to which taxpayers (involuntarily) contribute.

While there is no one-true-definition of what differentiates a [[FakeCharity]] from a real charity, the two prevailing definitions are
* "derives more than 10% of its income—and/or more than £1 million—from the government, while also lobbying the government"<ref>[http://fakecharities.org/ - Fake Charities] - fakecharities.org</ref> when describing UK charitiees
* any registered charity that accepts any form of tax-payer funding (either direct from government, or via grants from government funded organisations such as the [[NHS]])

The main point being that these organisations are receiving money that was not voluntarily given.

Another form of [[FakeCharity]] exists - those that aren't registered, and are created with the express intention of defrauding the public who give money - this meaning is generally '''not''' the one meant when the term is used on this site.

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 A [[FakeCharity]] is generally considered to describe any organisation that calls itself a charity (in that its funds should come from people ''voluntarily'' providing contributions) and is generally registered with - in the UK - the Charities Commission or the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator,  that obtains some, most or all of its funds from sources to which taxpayers (involuntarily) contribute, or in some cases, blackmailed from businesses for fear of said businesses suffering bad publicity of some sort.
-While there is no one-true-definition of what differentiates a [[FakeCharity]] from a real charity, the two prevailing definitions are
+While there is no one-true-definition of what differentiates a [[FakeCharity]] from a real charity, the prevailing definitions are
 * "derives more than 10% of its income—and/or more than £1 million—from the government, while also lobbying the government"<ref>[http://fakecharities.org/ - Fake Charities] - fakecharities.org</ref> when describing UK charitiees
 * any registered charity that accepts ''any'' form of tax-payer funding (either direct from government, or via grants from government funded organisations such as the [[NHS]])

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	Another form of [[FakeCharity]] exists - those that aren't registered, and are created with the express intention of defrauding the public who give money - this meaning is generally '''not''' the one meant when the term is used on this site.		Another form of [[FakeCharity]] exists - those that aren't registered, and are created with the express intention of defrauding the public who give money - this meaning is generally '''not''' the one meant when the term is used on this site.

		+	Another thing that [[FakeCharity\|fake charities]] seem to have in common is that they bend the truth in order to further their own ideas

		+	{{quote\|I’ve noticed recently that some lobbyists are prepared to simply lie – or give no value at all to the truth – in pursuit of their apparent aims.
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		+	[...]
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		+	The thing about the article which immediately struck me is that [[Alcohol Concern]], a ‘good cause’ lobbying organisation who say in their website they want to ‘make sense of alcohol’, was quoted as follows;
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		+	'''“It’s disappointing that Parliament isn’t leading by example, instead alcohol consumption continues to increase."
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		+	I wrote to Alcohol Concern and asked why it had given such a weird quote claiming increased consumption when it seems patently untrue – certainly un-evidenced. ‘Interim Chief Executive’ Eric Appleby, who’d been given as the source, wrote back. His reply, didn’t make much sense and included this classic of its genre:
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		+	'''“the niceties as to whether a 10% increase in spending represents an equivalent rise in consumption is frankly irrelevant”.'''<ref>[http://ericjoyce.co.uk/2014/05/hic/ Making sense of ? hic : (] - Erick Joyce MP</ref>}}

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