🧹🙅♀️💼Labour’s latest brainwave—forced volunteering—has triggered a trembling chorus of 300 charities crying foul, warning they simply “won’t comply.” Yes, the same organisations that enjoy juicy tax breaks, generous public goodwill, and enough grants to make an arts council blush, are now refusing to roll up their sleeves unless it’s entirely on their terms.
🧾 Free Money, No Responsibility, Please
Let’s be clear: these aren’t scrappy bake-sale nonprofits stitched together with bunting and hope. These are registered charities with official status, government support, and in many cases, multi-million-pound incomes. But ask them to supervise a few teens litter-picking on a Saturday and suddenly it’s “authoritarian coercion.”
If you don’t want to help guide structured volunteering—fine. But maybe, just maybe, you shouldn’t get all the perks of being a publicly-supported entity. You want independence? Grand.
Pay rent. Pay taxes. Pay your way like the rest of us.
Because a “charity” that refuses to support a national civic initiative sounds a lot like an NGO that wants all the applause and none of the admin. Call it what it is: Charity, but make it bougie.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
Why should publicly funded charities get to opt out of public programmes?
When did “giving back” become an optional extra for the giving sector itself?
💬 Drop your comments in the blog, not just on social—especially if you’ve ever been “voluntold” and survived to tell the tale. 🧤🗣️
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