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Large charities bureaucratic and ideologically monochrome, says ex-Tory leader

The audience at Third Sector magazine's "Britain's Most Admired Charities" awards this week, including many from large well-established charities, got a bit more then they were expecting.

From Communtiy Newswire, 4/11/05:

Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has launched a blistering attack on the nation's big charities, claiming a "cosy relationship" has developed between the giants of the voluntary sector and the Whitehall departments who supply them with grants and contracts.

Speaking at a charity awards event in London last night the MP for Chingford and Woodford Green said Britain's big charities had increasingly come to mirror the civil service in their "risk-averse, bureaucratic, ideologically monochrome and politically correct" mindsets.

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