## Step 4 - Reading part 2

You’re going to read the second part of a report about charity money.
Read part 2 and choose the correct answers to the questions.

by Christopher Hope
Many of the charities disputed the figures. Cancer Research said it had spent 80 per cent of its income on charity if the cost of running its shops was excluded. A spokesman for Sue Ryder said the research was “misleading in light of the size of our retail chain and the costs at Sue Ryder compare favourably to many other organisations”. She added: “These calculations do not take into consideration the additional benefits that our shops bring to the local community.” Martin Miles, Chief Financial Officer at the British Heart Foundation, said the report did not allow “for the very different financial profile of running the UK’s largest network of charity shops”, adding that 78 per cent of its income was spent on life saving research and improving the lives of heart patients. He said: “We are committed to spending every penny that is donated in a way that will offer the greatest benefit to heart patients and over the last 50 years people’s donations have funded research that has helped to halve death rates for cardiovascular disease in the UK.”
Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, said: "This is a flawed and simplistic analysis which arbitrarily defines ‘charitable activity’ to exclude campaigning.
"Yet campaigning is the lifeblood of the great British charitable tradition. We work to alleviate the symptoms of disease and poverty and to tackle the causes of such. Donors give money for both.”
A Charity Commission spokesman said: “Donors need to see how charities spend their money. That’s why charity accounts are public documents. "This report has not, however, considered basic information in the
charities’ accounts, which has led to this flawed analysis. "The Commission has looked at the accounts of
the charities named and we would recommend anyone interested in charity finances does the same.”
Source: Telegraph.co.uk

In small groups, find out about one of the following charities. Share your information with the class.

- British Heart foundation UK: https://www.bhf.org.uk/
- Sue Ryder: http://www.sueryder.org/
- Cancer research UK: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/
- Guide dogs for the blind UK: http://guidedogs.org.uk/

1. What do they do?
2. Where are their main offices?
3. When is their next big charity event?
4. Do they comment on The Hornet’s Nest report? What do they say?
   (Briefly summarize).
5. Share three interesting facts about the charity with your class.