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St Andrew’s Healthcare, one of the largest charities in the UK, has been told by commissioners that calling itself a social enterprise will help it win contracts.
Charities told using 'social enterprise' brand will help them win funding
Get In, the childhood sports project that Big Society Network’s Social Action Fund grant was supposed to fund, was faltering in quarter one of the grant agreement, yet the Cabinet Office gave Big Society Network a further £98,000 for the project at the end of quarter two, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
Jonathan Jenkins, chief executive of the Social Investment Business, is reviewing his use of social media in order to minimise perceptions that he has social relationships with people from charities that receive statutory funds on his recommendation.
The Cabinet Office has said that Big Society Network did not spend its Social Action Fund grant developing the ‘Britain’s Personal Best’ campaign.
The Cabinet Office has refused to name the people it interviewed as part of Nick Hurd’s investigation into the grant that Big Society Network received from the Social Action Fund.
A meeting was held at 10 Downing Street three days before the application deadline for the Social Action Fund, at which Big Society Network discussed its bid proposal in front of a special adviser to the Prime Minister.
Big Society Network was awarded £200,000 from the government’s Social Action Fund last year ahead of more than 600 other applicants, even though it failed to meet a number of the stated criteria, civilsociety.co.uk can reveal.
The ConservativeHome blog site has responded to Sir Stephen Bubb’s recent letter to the Prime Minister by attacking his Labour links and stating that he “speaks for the big charities preoccupied with lobbying and suckling on the teat of the taxpayer”.
A letter from Acevo chief executive Sir Stephen Bubb to the Prime Minister in which he describes the Big Society as “effectively dead” and accuses the government of sidelining charities, secured the front page lead in today’s Times as well as an interview on the Today programme.
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