Christian charity which supported struggling families forced to close and make 50 staff redundant on Christmas Eve
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/christian-charity-supported-struggling-families-33122869
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“Charity bosses said government changes to minimum wage and National Insurance combined with rising costs had made the organisation unsustainable”
Yep that’ll do it. Not the first business and it won’t be the last to go under either.
I know it’s a bit of a pipe dream… but ideally, the state should provide enough for struggling families to make charities like this one unnecessary.
I wonder what the average rental was being paid over the last 12 months. The article and people posting on here seem to be confusing businesses with charities.
Charities are often run by volunteers. I think this charity paying their staff leads us to the political hot potato of minimum wage.
I understand that charities need to put donations to good use. I wonder why this sudden choice instead of phased in redundancies replacing with volunteers, it is a charity after all. Given it is Christian are the Churches not packed with folks these days? Many of these peeps have time to get their masks on and be putting up flags on lampposts. If only these rich folks paying for flags and train tickets to marches by Tommy ten names could cough up for real charities like this one that has just gone under.
To be fair, I work in the third sector a great many charities are extremely poorly run. The people may have kind hearts and want to do the right thing, but their admin and bookkeeping skills are appalling. I don’t know anything about this charity but I’ve seen incredible waste of donated funds on ridiculous things.
The charity funding world is also getting far more competitive with more charities chasing after fewer funds. And funders are more choosy about whom they support. ‘Having a kind heart’ is no longer good enough to run a charity. They need to have extremely good business acumen now.
Yay, the go to excuse for people who are shit at running organisations.
I wouldn’t donate to a religious charity as I don’t want a side order or brainwashing with my donation.
Plenty of secular charities out there.