Question: Do Newport City Council and charities intermingle?
Take a look at this.
Newport City Council Homepage
It's always instructive to look at the first page of a council's website because that way you can tell with certainty what they consider most important/highest priority and/or their selling points, as in 'why should I pay huge amounts of cash each year to this government body'.
Also have a look on your council tax bills under social services expenditure and ask exactly what is meant by a social service. Some fact about our rubbish collection statistics came to light the other day, we are on par with some really backward ex-communist state apparently. So where does all of this money go and as the MP in Parliament was asking of Common Purpose "what purpose?".