The local authority granted permission for the single-storey structure to be built on the tennis courts at the Grade II-listed home, as first reported in The Sun.
Jesus, it doesn’t sound like they lacked any money, and they still dipped into a charity for this.
Tom embodied the ‘greatest’ generation…his daughter embodies the boomer generation
I wonder from time to time how many “charities” there are that exist whose biggest outgoing is the wage of the person who set up the “charity”.
Charities have such a weak definition in the U.K, for example Nuffield Health is a “Charity” but you’d be incredibly hard pressed to point out something charitable, it’s basically a £1B private medical club that doesn’t pay tax.
I don’t think there should be barriers to entry for small charities, but we should be able to assess how much actually makes it to the “cause” at a glance.
Makes me sad because it was one of the things that helped my Dad during lockdown (even though he didn’t make it out the other side) and we donated like so many other people.
