Don't vote for Brake-they might win some money
Don't vote for Brake-they might win some money
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Paul Dishman

Original Poster:

5,423 posts

268 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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vote for anyone else- I voted for the air ambulance

http://www.thelawyer.com/charities2008.html

madbadger

11,754 posts

275 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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Air ambulance, too.

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Mattt

16,664 posts

249 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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Good idea, I voted Cancer Research.

carrotchomper

18,331 posts

235 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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MSF

Jasandjules

72,681 posts

260 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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Air ambulance.

MonkeyHanger

9,267 posts

273 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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Cancer Research here.


Brake should be disqualified from charitable status as they act more like a Political pressure group than a charity.

Jasandjules

72,681 posts

260 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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MonkeyHanger said:
Brake should be disqualified from charitable status as they act more like a Political pressure group than a charity.
True, I am kind of interested in how they achieve charitable status in law, under the circumstances.

Hooli

32,278 posts

231 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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jellywopter here

Kinky

39,945 posts

300 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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Air ambulance for for me thumbup

It would have been the RNLI - but they're not on the list frown

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KB_S1

5,967 posts

260 months

Friday 14th December 2007
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How do they qualify as a charity?
Do they perform any charitable acts?

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

265 months

Saturday 15th December 2007
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NSPCC

Mad Moggie2

784 posts

237 months

Saturday 15th December 2007
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KB_S1 said:
How do they qualify as a charity?
Do they perform any charitable acts?
counselling ... brainwashing scratchchin Encouraging to "hate that nasty person who uses a car to get from A to B" scratchchin

No ... the only good things they did waas tackle the rogue mechanic/haulier and advise of the dangers of driving whilst unfit.

So .. er.. not exactly a "charity".

Independent schools (some - not all) get away with "charitable status" because they allow the local community to access their facilities outside school times. Brake does not offer anything other than a political point of view supporting red-green party politics and lentil soup.

Brake? No - it's a political raison d'etre these days as very little a-political about their ethics and values. rolleyes

vonhosen

40,597 posts

248 months

Saturday 15th December 2007
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Don't they offer support for families of fatality crash victims ?

Derek Smith

50,014 posts

279 months

Saturday 15th December 2007
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KB_S1 said:
How do they qualify as a charity?
Do they perform any charitable acts?
Public schools qualify as charities.

Chrispy Porker

17,749 posts

259 months

Saturday 15th December 2007
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Derek Smith said:
KB_S1 said:
How do they qualify as a charity?
Do they perform any charitable acts?
Public schools qualify as charities.
So do the people who run my local sports centre for the council ??

Mad Moggie2

784 posts

237 months

Saturday 15th December 2007
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Chrispy Porker said:
Derek Smith said:
KB_S1 said:
How do they qualify as a charity?
Do they perform any charitable acts?
Public schools qualify as charities.
So do the people who run my local sports centre for the council ??
Because they offer a real and tangible service as in service for the public and in the case of the schools - a facility which the local community can use.


As said -= Brake's "counselling service" indoctrinates as it is subjective and not really constructive in that it encvourages wallowin in a "blame/hate/revenge" culture. I speak from the experience of this in the past. Best counsellors to cope with grief are the completely professional and objective ones which your GP can put the bereaved into contact with. They are provided by the NHS by the way wink You already paid for them with the "charity donation paid to the government in taxes" wink