Britain, NottinghamShire Black Arrow, Opposing charity involvement in Workfare ? a new local campaign

Yesterday a new Nottingham campaignhttp://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/5642 was 
begun to demand that Framework, a local homelessness and housing charity, stops using 
mandatory work placements from the Job Centre. Everyone can get involved. ---- Charity 
involvement in workfare, where benefits claimants are forced to work for free with the 
threat of cut-off benefits if they do not, is rife in Britain ? see the list of 
?providers? compiled by Boycott Workfare http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16 . The 
goodwill of true volunteers, a vital part of most charities, can only be degraded by the 
coercion of these work-for-free schemes which also displace paid jobs. Some of the larger 
charities may operate like any cut-throat business and not care how they cut costs, but at 
least some have been shamed into pulling out of workfare 
http://www.afed.org.uk/news-and-events/145-end-of-the-social-wage-radical-responses-to-the-welfare-reform-bill.html 

when their involvement has been publicised. Local charities in particular rely on goodwill 
from supporters and should listen to anti-workfare campaigners.

In this latest Nottingham campaign, a letter to Framework 
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/5639 was delivered by hand by Nottingham Against 
Workfare. The campaign asks for your support as follows.

On Sunday 5th May we?ll be raising the issue on their Facebook page and Twitter feed. We 
ask that you join us to:
1) Ask Framework to end their involvement in the workfare programme.
2) Explain to them that the Workfare programme is exploiting the very people that they 
proclaim to be supporting.
3) Share this information with as many people as you can.
4) Get in contact with us and join forces in stopping Framework?s exploitation.
Details and links for the action (including the text of the letter sent to the Framework 
Chief Executive) can be found here:http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/5642

Anarchist Federation NottinghamShire