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15 Jan 10
16:22
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£20 to Unicef,for me.
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50 Euros. terrible terrible tragedy ill do without my few pints to night.
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waiting for payday then it will be 50 squids
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Nothing.
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Why's that then BC?
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£0.00
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yr donation has a 1 in 100 chance of being of any use at all to those who need help most. its like trying to stop a puppy drowning by removing a cup full of water from a lake
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are you saying that the red cross is useless? how do you think they are funded?
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The same as BC. It's awful but quite frankly it's nothing to do with us.
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brown donated mine already, they already been given over 200million anyway
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jimmy69 15 Jan 17:45
The same as BC. It's awful but quite frankly it's nothing to do with us. Your a human being of course its got something to do with you |
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No it hasn't. I am British.
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i hope you ll never need help someday. But i respect your right not to donate. each to their own.
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Jimmy
So the only things that are anything to do with you have to be concerned with Britain? |
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I haven't really thought about it to be honest...but probably yes.
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well I hope we are never in the situation when we require foreign aid, but you would definitely deserve it just so that it opens your eyes
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I have given nothing and would recommend everyone to do the same. Charitable organisations are a huge con. The amount of money that goes in admin costs, marketing and wages is disgusting. Don't support these stupid organisations.
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Cubanpete 15 Jan 18:23
I have given nothing and would recommend everyone to do the same. Charitable organis ations are a huge con. The amount of money that goes in admin costs, marketing and wages is disgusting. Don't support these stupid organisations. Sadly I've got to agree with this.In any case it won't be left to charities to sort this out.Governments(your money) are already dealing with it. |
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Exactly Cubanpete. If you want to do something then I suggest you offer yourself for a week clearing up the mess there. Giving money is a complete waste of time.
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Big Charlie 15 Jan 17:32
Nothing. Gene Hackman 15 Jan 17:34 Why's that then BC? I don't want to. How much have you sent ? |
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I have donated ,would prefer not to say how much .
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You may find it interesting to see where some of your charity donations go.
[pre] Charity_______________CEO________________Salary ActionAid_____________Salil Shetty_______£86,527 BBC Children in Need__Martina Milburn____£62,000 Crisis________________Shaks Ghosh________£64,500 Oxfam_________________Barbara Stocking___£75,000 [/pre] And that appears to have been in 2003. http://society.guardian.co.uk/salarysurvey/table/0,12406,1042677,00.html |
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Nearly forgot
[pre] Salvation Army___Alex Hughes___£10,540 [/pre] Just to give a bit of context. |
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Can you get me Save The Childrens bosses salary so I can mention to my missus who is area rep and in my face about it all the time
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very good to give
however the % of your £20 that will get to the source will probably be £1 at best not a lot you can do about that though |
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£500 to Red Cross on behalf of canaryboy.
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i dont think those salaries are extortionate - would rather see someone well qualified and paid well to efficiently run the charity than a monkey working for peanuts
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I was thinking that. Those salaries appear modest for the organisations they run, the responsibilities they shoulder and the funds their teams raise. I have been made aware, in the past, that they do also do/did run 'executive' cars quite unnecessarily. Dunno if that still applies.
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jimmy69 15 Jan 18:43
Exactly Cubanpete. If you want to do something then I suggest you offer yourself for a week clearing up the mess there. Giving money is a complete waste of time. Anyone know of any organisations that would organise something like this? A mate of mine tried to offer his labour after the tsunami. But he was more or less told that, unless he was a medic or construction engineer, he would only get in the way and take up scarce resources. |
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Isotonic. 15 Jan 17:25
50 Euros. terrible terrible tragedy ill do without my few pints to night. well done |
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I give nominal regular amounts to a few charities on a monthly basis but I can certainly understand why people are against giving foreign aid.
Could you really see all these other countries giving the UK massive handouts if the boot was on the other foot? I think not. We're still giving billions in donations to China in return for nothing FFS. A world super power who wont help their own people but good old Blighty will keep handing out because as a nation we're all filthy rich arent we? :| Charity starts at home. |
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discussing how much you've given to any charity often indicates that your donation is, to some extent, about making yourself feel better, rather than those benefiting from your charity.
and besides, the amount you donate relative to your income is the relevant indicator of the extent of your charity, not absolute amounts. |
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surely if they need some money they will just print some like other countries
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£5020.00
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Nothing.
I would get rid of Gift Aid as well. All that UK tax going abroad. |
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It's not UK tax if it goes abroad though. :) What we should get rid of is the government sending money abroad according to its own plans. We're capable of giving our money to what we want to.
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Nothing. I give to dossers that look like dossers and charities here, privatly run animal charities, but not to any institutional charity.
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British Legion excepted.
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I get christmas cards from the I.J.C.
Every bit helps. |
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jimmy69 15 Jan 17:45
The same as BC. It's awful but quite frankly it's nothing to do with us. very humanitarian. You should be ashamed |