Why are taxpayers paying for lobbyists to lobby the Government?

The following bodies received  funding from the Government or Local Authorities in 2012.   They also lobby the Government!

ActionAid                                                            £4,466,000
Action on Smoking and Health                                £150,000
Alcohol Concern                                                     £209,336
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development         £9,034,000
Christian Aid                                                      £12,240,000
Child Poverty Action Group                                      £90,000
Disability Rights UK                                                £517,965
Family Action                                                     £14,654,000
Fresh North East                                                     £713,000
National Children's Bureau                                   £1,572,118
Oxfam                                                               £23,700,000
Save the Children Fund                                     £54,255,000
Shelter                                                                £2,569,000
Stonewall                                                                 £79,000
War on Want                                                         £162,544

Some of these bodies campaign as political lobbyists.   All spend some of their monies on campaigns or lobbying.   Is this right?

COPOV Forum 6th September

Forum

11am - 2pm Saturday, 6th September 2014
(coffee served from 10.30am)

@ All Saints Church Hall, Oval Way, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. SL9 8PZ

AGENDA :

The Conservative Party

Party Organization – Constituency News – Reports.

“Education Policy” by Stephen Parker

Referendum on Scotland’s Independence

Voter Engagement and Turnout

An inquiry by the Political and Constitutional Committee of the House of Commons

Do we need a new “Magna Carta”?

Politics Today – What concerns you most?

The History of Democracy in the United Kingdom

       A short lecture on democracy – the Peterloo massacre.

Any Other Business

1pm Lunch
      A ploughman’s lunch will be available free of charge but a donation towards      our costs of hall hire and lunch would be much appreciated.

Directions: Go north through Gerrards Cross on Packhorse Rd, passing Ethorpe Hotel.   Take 1^st left into Orchehill Avenue, then 2^nd right into Oval Way.   All Saints Church is on your left past Thorpe House School.

Date of next meeting: Saturday November 1st – Forum, Gerrards Cross

All are welcome and do bring a guest

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E-mail: johnstrafford@btinternet.com 

The COPOV barbecue

Good company, fine weather - what more could you want/

More reality on climate change

Climate Change

Watch on YouTube.   Click above.
The second part of Cllr Derek Tipp's lecture to the COPOV Forum of 19th July