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This has come so quickly for many charities, which do not necessarily have the management infrastructure to be able to ameliorate these fiscal changes very quickly. Therefore, many of them will have to look to bigger charities to help them or get in professional help to cope with the significant changes around letting people go or making people redundant and not employing new people. That will be very difficult, and it will detract from the core functions of those charities. That is my concern: it is that the excellent work being done by so many hundreds and thousands of charities across the country will almost turn into a cul-de-sac, with some very difficult decisions to be made around cutting budgets and core services to some of the most vulnerable people in the country, such as children who are carers for sick parents, who may be terminally ill, and for people with cancer. Those are the particularly difficult cases that those charities are helping with.