the site that tracks just how much of your money the government is giving to “charities”—and at this time of The Big Society, Fake Charities is more relevant than ever.
We define a Fake Charity as any organisation registered as a UK charity that derives more than 10% of its income—and/or more than £1 million—from the government, while also lobbying the government. That lobbying can take the form of calling for new policies, changes to the law or increases in (their own) funding.
Some of these organisations spend a large amount of their time lobbying the state to curtail our freedoms and not all charities are upfront about the amount of money they receive from the state.
When an ‘independent’ charity takes a political stand or attempts to sway public opinion on matters of policy, we think you have a right to know whether they are being funded by the generosity of the public or by the largesse of the state. We think you have the right to know whether you’re listening to a genuine grass-roots charity or are being fed PR from an astro-turfed lobby group. This site exists to help you make up your own mind about who these campaigners are really working for.
We are just assembling some data—we need to start afresh—and then we’ll start posting!
You can use this form to submit a charity for inclusion…
It started in America.
However, in the 80s, New Labour, under the Bliar, reorganised of Common Purpose. The Third Sector took off, and tax-payers in the UK have been mislead ever since. Everything Wormser and Dodd have warned about in the USA is now happening here in the UK and in the EU:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZqZGEBkX1s
www.thehiddenevil.com/foundations.asp
This is what is behind the Public Sector cuts in the UK now!