A charity that relies in the main part on taxes is no more a charity than a prostitute is your girlfriend.

Guido Fawkes: Big Society v Big Government

Now we are reminded  that some charities are very dependent on public sector grants.

John Redwood: The Big Society and the state: can only the state look after us?

One of the absurdities of the New Labour era was the support or creation of third sector charities and other institutions that spent considerable time and money on raising money in the form of grants from different branches of government.

John Redwood: The Big Society