
Environmental charities The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) and Groundwork UK are two of the biggest workfare exploiters in the UK. Both accept forced labour placements, often to carry out hard, outdoor, physical work, and both have lucrative contracts to manage workfare schemes.
Both charities have been invited by the DWP to help run Community Work Placements – the upcoming mass workfare scheme which involves a shocking 780 hours of unpaid work. As some more enlightened charities have stated these placements are not volunteering. Anyone who refuses one of these unpaid positions will face brutal benefit sanctions.
Groundwork receive huge amounts of tax payer’s money already from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the National Lottery. Unlike other organisations they have remained silent about their use of forced labour despite repeated criticism on social media. With the Government paying their bills, they are…
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