The latest charity shop in our town to take over a private business, which used to be a video shop, is the Shaw Trust. Like all the others in prime locations on our high street the shop window looks very neat, you can tell all of these charities are loaded because unlike private businesses that are strapped for cash you see everything brand spanking new, all top notch shop fittings and the like just appear out of no where. Not much business seems to go on in these places and the amount of stuff for sale is very limited, almost as if the shop was not a shop. Compare to say some of the private shops where every smallest space is crammed with stuff for sale you would be forgiven for thinking that they sold nothing at all. A lot isn't even second-hand and I hear a lot of stuff donated to shops like these is just thrown away.
Anyway this is the first I have seen of this particular organisation and so I was looking at the website.
Facts about Shaw Trust
Can you see what is going on here? Is this really a charity to help the disabled or is it a wing of the government bordering on a quango kind of structure. Notice all the political correctness, these Common Purpose style organisations like to show a lot of black people and they like to talk about discrimination and even to a disabled person it can be rather condescending.
Our local arts centre a year ago was told that they would have to build disabled access into a building protected by some preservation order due to its historical ties. I knew the people running it and it was run on a shoestring. People who worked there did it for free but the cost of the building work was estimated to be about £10 000 and we would see someone in a wheelchair maybe every three months or so. It was never a problem, people would always be more than ready to give them a lift up the steps and they appreciated the welcome they got. But £10 000 could have caused the place to close and this is where charity crosses over the line into Communism by stealth. The Communist model is grant maintained arts centres but this one did not use grants since all the grant giving bodies wanted to buy political control.
So where does the Shaw Trust get its money from? Is it part of the £167 billion/year UK governmnet quango operation? It looks very 'on-message'.