A modern corporate charity, a definition:

a corporation that is registered as a charity, it pays its executives rates comparable to private sector, six figure salaries and expenses, they all live and work in London and socialise with similar status business people, they devote a large part of their work to fundraising and brand awareness in order to maintain their income. Secondary to this they provide some funding to their original founding cause. However they no longer prioritise helping people, their priority is growth in income, growth in brand awareness and growth in their salaries and growth in status, the ‘seat at the top table’. The people who fundraise are lied to extensively that the charity is being effective so that they will remain enthusiastic unpaid fund raisers. The prime role of people they supposedly help is to provide extras for photo opportunities with celebrities and politicians. They do not in any way work towards rights or political solutions so that the need for charity will become obsolete. They subsidise for-profit corporations’ activities many of whom they also hold executive positions in. Their overriding ideology is neoliberalism as that is the consensus in their peer group, social group and in the universities they were educated in. Their social media presence is predicated upon customer service models and is to improve their brand image. They are a powerful obstacle to changing the world for the better. At best they merely provide harm reduction over the short term. At worst they are active enemies of the people and issues they profess to be helping with.