Daily Sceptic readers may or may not know that I compile lists of taxpayer-funded charities for my Substack. For this, I take a sample of charities and add up how much they have had in “Income from government contracts” and “Income from government grants” over the last five tax years available (as charities publish their accounts at different times). Then I add up the total. So far I have calculated £2.6 billion going towards 71 charities (bearing in mind there are over 170,000 registered on the Charity Commission for England and Wales), with 34 of these categorised as asylum and migration charities in receipt of over £300 million. I add to these lists as and when I find new charities in receipt of taxpayer funding.
Given that the current UK national debt stands at £3 trillion and counting, what has surprised me from my recent audit is that many charities had a sizable increase in their funding from when I last audited them. Today I will show you five examples of these, listing the charity, its funding increase and a bit of information about what each does.
Migrant Help (£194,462,000, 2021-25)
The charity received £153,592,000 between 2020-24, meaning an increase of £40,870,000.
Migrant Help offers advice in everything from “how to claim asylum” to “finding legal representation” to “accessing healthcare”. The charity runs a schools programme to “dispel myths and encourage thought and discussion around how to be more
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What an absolute racket. No wonder our taxes are so high. Surely the Charity Commission should look more closely at the charitable aims and objectives of these ‘charities’. Govt spending also needs closer oversight.
AIM HIGH VOTE LOWE MILLIONS MUST GO!!!
Glad I support Charlotte with a monthly sub. What she is digging up needs to be collated into a leaflet delivered to every house in the country prior to the next general election. (Listening Reform?!) Most of the tax paying public are totally unaware how their taxes are propping up this wasteful ‘industry’. And dont forget its not just the government doing these grants and donations. The National Lottery, People Post Code Lottery et al are also making donations or grants to these types of ‘charities’ and organisations.
The taxpayer-funded leech that is Migrant Help, top salaries of over £118k,has a few layers to it, all funded by us and enabled by the Home Office.
Migrant Help has a “commercial” arm, Clear Voice Interpreting Ltd, which made a £3.7M profit last year and gift-aided it back to Migrant Help. So although a “commercial” company it ensures that it pays 0% tax.
Clear Voice provides services to councils, other charities and asylum contractors. All of them funded, directly or indirectly, by the taxpayer.
Government giving taxpayers money to charities really boils my bile. I should decide what charities I fund not the government.
At least Charlotte got the information. A couple of years ago I asked my local authority what charities they supported and couldn’t/wouldn’t tell me, they claimed they didn’t have a central record, it was for departments to decide what charities they funded, and it would take too long to collate the information. So they have no idea apparently how much they waste on charities.
Just think what people with real needs, UK citizens, those born with severe disabilities, family with severe autistic children, deaf and blind children, and the millions of frail elderly on their own, with NO support, could do with £42 million.🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
To quote Tolkien: “What can men do against such reckless hate?”
Rackets. Simply rackets
Every registered charity publishes an annual report available online, from what I understand. I notice that they are becoming increasingly obscure about where they get their money from. Take Migrant Help. In the year 24/25 accounts report it states (around pg 40) that it gained 46K from donations but it does not say where these came from. It also shows: money from ‘charitable activities’ of around 60K. Once again, there is no clarity on what these activities actually are and how much was raised from each activity, with just the overall figure cited. An equally vague term is investment income which raised 313K for this charity.
Time these reports meticulously itemised how they get their money. You will very rarely see them say funds from government but if you see the word ‘grant’ in the accounts section, you can bet it will be from the govt.
Page 49 shows that 19 million was spent on staff wages in the last year. Up from 15 million the year before. Big business, this migrant, well, ‘business’.
Indeed.
Do these charities comply with the law or is the law being circumvented by government in order to benefit itself?
Legal requirements require that earnings and surpluses of charities do not benefit individuals, or shareholders. That does not seem to be the case. In fact funding seems also to be a job creation system for the suitably, politically minded.
Government funding is only given in order to benefit its own agenda.
So, to comply with the law how do these charities demonstrate “public benefit” – or is the benefit only for the government and its proxies? Charities are clearly required not to function as a political party, lobbying group, or government entity.
Slippery use of lawyers is probably what keeps these politically motivated organisations going but someone needs to dig deeper, ask questions and get clarity on behalf of taxpayers.
So how do I take back control of which charities to support? It’ll be none of the above that’s for sure!
£194 million + for Migrant Help?? £194 MILLION. Which Gummint department authorised THAT expenditure and why is it that much? Did this gang just request it and it was granted?
Big cuts coming from Reform I hope. A report should be required of them all to expose their income and spending including salaries, support for the left including party office aspirants and grants to other bodies.
These “charities” are nothing of the kind. They are political campaigners.
Find the legislation that has enabled this commism and Muhammadan supporting largesse, and defund by cancelling the Acts of Parliament. Just break stuff – the laws that are destroying us. It is harder for the Islamo communists to recover if you have broken the laws their treason stands on.
You could reasonably argue that the Government giving charities (our) money is just the Establishment Elite dispensing patronage. The Government do it to exert control and provide jobs for their mates.
Even Trump, at his most bombastic, has achieved only modest results draining the swamp in the USA – sometimes replacing one set of bureaucrats with another. I guess one man can only do so much.
But cutting off money to charities is perhaps an easier task, even if the media claque complain loudly. So make a start by stopping charity ‘contributions’ for anything to do with immigration and asylum seekers – this will reduce the ‘pull’ effect somewhat. Let the charities find other contributors.
Revoke their charity status full stop.
Thanks, as always. Another sign of how much trouble we are in that government giving money to charity is seen as normal. Why is the government giving to any charity? It’s profoundly undemocratic. Individuals are free to give money to whatever cause they wish, and the amounts and causes chosen will be by definition a perfect reflection of the will of the people.
Absolutely agree ToF. HMG has no business whatsoever giving money to charities and that includes the tax refund element. Charity is an entirely personal business. My own donations go only to small local projects with leaders who draw little or no salary and occasionally to ‘disaster’ funds.
I give to our local air ambulance which seems fairly sound, and another small charity I have personal experience of through a family member
Thank you for shedding light Charlotte. You raise an interesting potential campaigning point ToF and Spud – a resonant potential manifesto differentiator for any party wishing to illustrate it is not Uniparty.
It is – of course – the place of the individual, not Government, to give to charity.
Pro individual sovereignty, shrinks govt and the tax take, and a direct attack on the transnational technocratic power grab.
Couldn’t be more elegant.
Thanks – I wish I could believe it would be a net vote winner but as a populace we seem to be addicted to the idea of handouts and a benevolent government
Maybe. Have you checked they aren’t peeing your donations away on diversity awareness or equality for helicopters of different genders.
Last I looked at their website and annual report they didn’t have any trace of woke nonsense
100% agree. The government has no moral right giving taxpayer money to charity. There are charities I like to support. Why is the government not giving money to charities of my choosing?
Why are they giving money to charities who seek to influence government policy in favour of immigrants/immigration? For balance, they should give similar amounts of money to groups opposed to immigration.
But they won’t, will they…
This did not start in 2024. It was not reduced between 2010 and 2024.
“It’s profoundly undemocratic.”
Nothing to do with democracy tof. Government have no business dispensing money collected from taxpayers to charidees selected by said Government. This sort of malarkey has never featured on election manifestos and the electorate has no say in matters. It is morally and constitutionlly indefensible.
From memory Blair had it in his manifesto. “Working with the Third Sector” he called it. Obviously a racket to fund his mates.
I stand corrected. Easy to miss the cover-up when it is dressed up in the wonderfully obscure words “third sector.” Which are first and second sector ?
I can recall the git face standing there and spouting this garbage, along with weasel Campbell et al. They explicitly said that they would funnel funds through the ‘third sector’ as they were more ‘efficient’ (I think..). I guessed at the time that this was a scam to move power out of Parliament and to fund his crony mates.
My sentiments entirely. I only give to small local charities. National charities are big businesses, with vast amounts of money squandered on obscene salaries.
The only and best ‘small local charity’ I support and gift to is my wider family and my employees….
That’s an excellent point
I wouldn’t mind the salaries so much if the organisations stuck to helping people rather than political campaigning