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Organisation Utilising T-Shirts to Attain Charity Status

A man in Penrith is trying to achieve charity status for his organisation and is using T-Shirts to help raise awareness of the issues he is promoting. Clive Arnold started the organisation UK Carers in 2005 and has already received almost a million hits on the website. He now wants to get charity status for his organisation so that he can help make more people aware of how many people actually care for their friends and family. He is appealing for help from the public to help raise the cash to become a charity. Clive Arnold says, “To become a charity we need £1,000 or the firm pledge of that amount to have the application go through. Some of our members have offered to donate a week’s worth of Carer’s Allowance, but I really don’t want to do that – £46.95 doesn’t buy much as it is.” He added, “Being registered as a charity would give us credibility – show that we know what we are talking about. Other caring charities have paid employees who don’t have any real insight into what carers go through or how it affects their lives.”

Clive cares for his wife full time as well as campaigning with other members of the organisation for the rights of carers as also lobbies the MPs for the rate of Carer’s Allowance to be increased as a recognition that carers actually work as a full time job. He does not benefit from the charity and uses all the funds he raises from T-Shirts, car stickers and badges. He says, “For what we do, a social services care worker would get a set amount of hours, pay and holidays. Carers do the job 24 hours a day and we have to do everything ourselves.”