DEI Has The Charitable Sector In Its Sights Now...

Charities are hiring staff with “privilege rather than potential”, according to the author of a report highlighting the stark class divide in the sector. Working-class people are less likely to be hired by charities than by employers in the public and private sectors, said the EY Foundation, which supports young people from low-income backgrounds to progress in professional roles.

The fact that charity worker can now be considered a 'professional role' in the first place is a sign of how far the industry has fallen, but no-one seems to want to point this out.  

Working-class people also find it harder to climb the career ladder inside charitable organisations, with the report highlighting how charity chief executives are twice as likely as the wider population to have gone to private school, rising to three times as likely for the biggest charities.

Duncan Exley, the author of the report, said charities were missing out when teams hired within their own social circles and class bubbles, which the research showed tended to skew towards the most affluent third of people.

They've become something so far from their origins that we probably need a new term for them. 'Charity' conjures up an image of grey haired retireees baking cakes to raise money for a small local issue and that's so far from the truth of what the largest are like that they are now targets for the rapacious DEI movement. 

One issue identified was that most charities were not even tracking their own progress on how many working-class employees they had and which roles they held. Of the 100 charities studied in one piece of independent research that went into the report, only one reported on the social class of its staff members.

And as a result, they must now spend the money they receive in donations for their cause on the kind of insane overheads that have crippled all other industry. 

Exley, who is the author of The End of Aspiration? Social Mobility and Our Children’s Fading Prospects, said there were endless hurdles for working-class people in the sector. These include a lack of progression from volunteering to a salaried job, having nobody to advocate professionally for them, and a lack of access to London where most large charities are based. Furthermore, he said it was simply not widely known among working-class young people that it was possible to have a well-paid career in the charity sector.

There's a real problem. It shouldn't be.