# Maternity Alliance to close

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/11/25/maternity-alliance-close/
- Published: 2005-11-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Guardian reports that campaigning charity The Maternity Alliance is to close
because of lack of funds.
The demise of the charity, which championed the rights
of pregnant women, was blamed on the government’s move away from core funding to
project funding.

Director Nancy Platts told The Guardian: “We are the equivalent of the small shopkeeper
being squeezed out by the big supermarkets. The government, by making us bid for
project-based income, is not recognising the very important gaps we filled.”

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