Election thought of the day: Tackling hidden inequality in the voluntary sector
In addition to PM David Cameron 's missing words in his all speeches, the PM has not been able to address the problem of inequality in the voluntary sector.
· The UK voluntary sector is a system that exploit ordinary people, young people and other unemployed people in the name of volunteering.
· In the UK voluntary sector, there are also higher earners who spend their time in fundraising to keep their salaries high and the funding they get are kept in reserves without being used to provide services
· The rest of the employees are on low pay, sessional and part-time jobs, consultancy jobs. They are not enrolled to any pension scheme.
· The voluntary organisations run by Black, Asian. Muslim and Minority Ethnic Communities have been the most affected by inequality in the voluntary sector because of the discrimination in funding system of the voluntary sector prevent them from accessing to funding. However, these groups are used by well funded larger networks to attend meetings, workshops, conferences that could a whole day without any pay or provision of transport fees.
· Since the PM David Cameron took power, more than 80 % of the voluntary organisations run by Black, Asian. Muslim and Minority Ethnic Communities have closed down. This can be checked on the Charity Commission's website where annual returns provided by BME organisations show NIL in the annual accounts of the last five years.
· Since Mr. David Cameron took power, many Trusts and Foundations, Government Funding programmes and Big Lottery Fund which is the largest funder for the voluntary sector scrapped all funding schemes that were targeting Black, Asian. Muslim and Minority Ethnic voluntary groups. In 2010, The London Councils withdrawn funding from all BME organisations that were funded for projects that were supposed to end in 2012. Since then, no other funding programmes for London Voluntary sector has been launched by London Councils.
Recommendations:
· All leaders of political parties should pledge to tackle inequality in the voluntary sector
· Volunteers, unemployed people, Black, Asian. Muslim and Minority Ethnic Communities should be paid at least £ 50 per day when attending meetings, workshops and conferences organised by other larger voluntary organisations. Local authorities and other Government Institutions.
· All leaders of political parties should pledge to fighting discrimination in the funding system and programmes of the voluntary sector.
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