Martin Houghton-Brown, chief executive of St John Ambulance, told the committee the Treasury would need to “step up” and help charities responding to the virus.
He added that despite some generous private donations, as things stand it will need to borrow heavily against its assets to keep going beyond August. Last week 100 MPs and peers from seven different political parties called on the government to provide extra support for charities.
Maybe those lucky people whose income hasn’t been affected by covid19UK and who would normally have attended a charity event or sponsored someone to run the marathon, could just send the donation anyway?
It’s for exactly this reason we have set up runforourcharities which will be taking place on Sunday 5th April
2/2 At the same time much of our regular fundraising has been wiped out due to the cancellation or postponement of running events and the closure of high street stores of many of our corporate partners - a truly Perfect Storm 🎀
I fear the “cure” will be worse than the disease.
so there would be nobody to shore up tory underfunding
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