In the past two days, two UK non-profits - Access Community Trust in East Anglia, and Well Women Wakefield, based in Yorkshire, have collapsed. Access Community Trust had been in existence for 50 years. Well Women Wakefield, for forty. Across the UK, and globally, non-profits are struggling. Many are very close to failing. That means shut doors, withdrawn support for those basically abandoned by the UK government, and facing insurmountable barriers across every single path to even the smallest success, lost jobs, and unpaid wages. It means questions, suspicions, accusations - not just against these organisations and their Trustees, but against their service users. The most vulnerable in society. Accusations that, maybe, they "didn't really need" the help they were getting. That maybe they were "scroungers", "skivers". People who, somehow, were taking things they weren't "entitled" to. The slurs start, even if only in peoples' m...
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