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“if a charity has receives over £1 million from the state, or garners more than 10% of their cash from the state, then they are designated a Fake Charity.”
That definition is too broad and rather arbitrary. Why call a charity fake if it receives 90% of its fundng from private sources? And the sum of £1m is irrelevant: what matters is the percentage of income gained from the state.
And charities do provide a customer-responsive alternative to centralised state provision…. for example, if I were in ‘socal housing’, I would rather my landlord was a well-established charity than a local authority or other public body…
“if I were in ‘socal housing’, I would rather my landlord was a well-established charity than a local authority or other public body…”
Then you’ve never been in social housing. The difference is undetectable.
I was thinking of long-established housing charities, Pete, rather than the charities established by local authorities as arms-length subsidiaries. And I’ve been told by someone who has been resident in both types that the former is hugely preferable.