Complexity In Charitable Funding - A tale from the front line
Forwarded Verbatim from my brother, a mental health recovery volunteer based on The Isle of Wight... Between 2016 and 2017 a group of mental health service users and volunteers from Quay House, a mental health recovery centre in Newport on the Isle of Wight, got together to try and solve a problem. The problem they were trying to solve was that people with disabilities were having their benefits stopped, and being put on JobSeeker’s Allowance, not because they’d suddenly become well, but because the government was making cut-backs, and part of those cut-backs involved tightening up the criteria regarding which medical conditions qualified for financial support, leaving thousands of people in a very precarious place. By precarious, we’re talking about people with serious health conditions, who may have been out of work for many years, that are having their sole source of income reduced from £106 to just £73 per week, while having pressure put upon them to take the first job they se