Dystopian charity work

An anonymous TCW piece gives us a useful reminder of the dystopian bureaucracy genuine charities have to cope with.


Maddening red tape that makes running a charity impossible

OVER the last twenty-odd years I have been chairman of a charity which gives grants to enable children to take part in education either more effectively (by providing aids), or to attend events such as the famous summer-term ‘week away’. Families on low incomes and students with financial difficulties have benefited enormously from what we do. Without our input there are many young people from our locality who would not have had the help that they desperately needed in their ‘learning journey’.

Over the last six months, trying to ‘follow the rules’ to run the charity has become dystopian. I would hazard a guess that there are many other charities who are also finding the whole matter utterly frustrating. Which is being polite. I know of at least two which have encountered exactly the same issues as ourselves, with exactly the same bodies...

Frankly, I’d rather have the cash in a tin under the bed, and hand it out as we see fit, without the crushingly dead hands of the Charity Commission and Barclays being involved, as it seems that through their incompetence they’re conspiring to prevent us doing anything at all.

The whole piece is well worth reading and the comments tell much the same tale.


Kornea112
The whole concept of tax free charities is being destroyed by abuses, corruption and poor government oversight. Many are blatantly abusing rules and interfering in political systems so much so, that they have become destabilizing to western countries. Small helpful charities are going to suffer as they get caught up in the abuse. This has become so bad that banking is going to become the least of your worries.