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Today I had a young man from Scope ringing mu doorbell...he actually woke me up. He then rang my neighbours doorbell. She is 92 and disabled..how ironic.
I told him to leave my road and he was abusive. I am so peed of with these chuggers. You get them in the local pubs and I would love to know how much actually gets to the charity.
I told him to leave my road and he was abusive. I am so peed of with these chuggers. You get them in the local pubs and I would love to know how much actually gets to the charity.
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So if you collect for Charity you shouldn`t be allowed to buy a pint
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Not surprised he was abusive if you told him to leave YOUR road.
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is it legal to put up a sign saying you charge a fee for answering the door?
time is money. a solicitor wouldnt talk to you for nowt, why should we have to talk to bellends who knock on our doors without any authority for free? |
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Not a lot goes to charity , everyone takes a big cut down the line and the needy are left with scraps. Once offered a Piano to International Aid
,someone came round and said it wasn't good enough, cheekie fckrs. Wtf do Cancer Research do with all their money , still the same old Radiotherapy ,chemo treatments. If they found a cure they'd be out of a job. |
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This is a sales job like any other, the caller is on commission just the same as Double Glazing or Electricity. Cold calling like this should be banned its wide open for scams from bogus callers.
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I worked voluntarily in a charity shop for a short while.
Donated stock worth any money was quickly pilfered by the elderly staff and manager. After confronting a couple of these thieving foooookers, I was told that because they worked for nothing it was one of their 'perks', and that I should do the same!! |
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That's awful Emden. We've discussed this before on here.
My friend worked in a Sue Ryder shop, there policy, at the time, was that if something had been on display for a week and hadn't sold, then the staff could buy it for the marked price. That is how it should be in all charity shops |
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When certain customers (well heeled, well dressed women) brought in their bagged donations, the staff used to be literally fighting to open them so they could get first choice.
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Saw a street collector using the contents of his tin in a bookies once. In fairness to the old girl behind the counter, she told him to sling his hook.
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maybe he had a good tip? wanted to triple the charities takings?
admittedly, he was probably just pinching the lot.  |
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i really do think all charities should be banned. its the one thing germaine greer and i agree on. govt money should be used for stuff that needs it. but obv people would moan about their taxes going up, even though theyd only be going up by the amount people give to charity anyway. a lot less, cos there wouldnt be loads of 2nd, 3rd and 4th middle men sponging most of it.
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charity helps nothing. it just makes everything worse. the only point it serves is to give people a nice warm glow cos they think theyre helping. if no charity existed and the govt put taxes up by a very modest amount to pay for things that need money, everybody would be a lot better off.
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apart from people who work for charities that is!
theyd have to get a real job. |
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Where do all the millions raised go to??
Cancer charities. Third world charities. Do things really ever change?? |
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a lot of people who work in charity shops sell the good things on e/bay
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Since being directed here from the sanctuary of the darts forum several months ago... "take it to chit chat." What's chit chat?
I often read through the posts and find the advice given to others to be top class. The interlect has way passed my expectations and this part of the bf forum certainly has some interesting characters. The "I'm going listen to every single No 1" thread being a particular fav of mine. It's the only thread i've commented on on CC until now as I feel a profound duty to stick up for charity shops and its workforce. Charity shops/charity workers/blaggers and scroungers, one and all. Whilst there's some valid points on this thread there's also some sceptics within. I've done a lot of work for charities from darts comps & exhibitions to working in a shop. Charity shops are not much different to your high street shops. Intense pressure from above to meet targets, bills to be paid, overheads to be covered, sell, sell, sell, and go find more volunteers so as to not pay any more staff other than the manager and assistant manager? Even those in paid positions are expected to work 50/60hrs per week, 6 days a week, on a 35hrs contract! (That's a lot of gambling hrs to give up for free). Dan made me laugh...the bloke with a charity tin in the bookies...shocking really. When I take money from our shop to the bank (£100.00's at a time) I often say to the girls i'll stick a ton on the fav in the next race. The joke wore thin long ago but...  I can assure you our stockroom is rammed with so many bagged donations on a weekly scale you wouldn't believe it. The response isn't let's see what we can pilfer from this bag, it's usually "not another bag." It's a conveyer belt of madness and certainly no freebies. We get 25% off the marked price and being first point of call, first dibs on many goods. You'd be surprised how much tat people donate. A fair percentage of all goods gets binned without a 2nd glance or opinion. All in all, charity shops are worthwhile places to shop and there's many a bargain to be had. P.S. Not all door to door bag collectors are paid staff - Many volunteer. Believe me, if you've done courier work it really is just another parcel you want to collect/deliver asap. Robbing charity bags could be something the lower end of society might do? Your genuine charity worker, paid or unpaid would be mortified at the thought. P.P.S. This is another reason why charity shops only want people who want to work/volunteer there, not forced to by the out of touch DWP morons. Oops, mustn't get political just yet. That's my soap box stand for the night. I shall slope off back to the darts forum and lurk from within  |
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trust no one
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bar your Labrador
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two very attractive girls came to my local one night selling little metal badges said to be for charity at £3 a shot
when asked if they had any credentials to prove the money was going to charity. one produced an official looking laminated badge on a ribbon round her neck saying that she was authorised to collect for charity In the district of south of Tyneside. they made a sharp exit into the car parked outside with the engine running driver at the ready for a sharp get away when it as pointed out they must be lost as south tyneside was 30 miles away. 100 percent certain they were on the fiddle and that antics like this put people off donating to genuine charities |
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Darts good post but you better tell the Government that charities don't want the unemployed because business doesn't want most of them.
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This is a depressing thread.I donate to 5 charities by standing order.As best I can recall only one of these was as a result of a 'cold call',presumably because of signing up to a previous charity.I realised at the time that I had been contacted by an agent who would be on commission but assumed that it be on a one-off basis.Does anyone know if the agent takes an ongoing percentage of my donation?
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I THINK yes iamajambo.. having had an indoors chat with a door collector for DD's only and a newbie leasrning the ropes.
I've had several DD's on the go such as Scope, Wales Air-ambulance, St.Johns, Red-Cross for training fund, and a forgotten other.. but also many doubts. The whole thing is far too murky imo. Lets pay direct into a continuously visible account.. let us see the outgoings from that account. Let them justify the expenditures. Trying to access any clear info about director's emoluments and fund-raising expenses etc. is nigh on impossible - and only single-figure percentages actually reaching the desired destination is just too depressing for words. DO we really want to donate £20 a month for £2 to go the needy? |
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(the other was one of the cancer charities)
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The Main Cancer research charity is a worthy cause ,funded research has practically wiped out many diseases Small Pox ,Polio
etc ,how much collected actually gets to its target is another question ... Tbh we are not far away in this country from collecting for the POOR ... |
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casemoney - there are already food collection points in nearly every town.
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There are always going to be administration costs to run these charities. 80% of donations given to Action Aid gets through to the people, which is very good.
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Well done jambo, good on you mate.
p.s. lend us a fiver  |
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Book goes to a charity shop, decent ones looked up on Internet if worth anything then put to one side , taken home and then listed for sale.
Know for a fact this happens regularly in charity shops up and down the country. |
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your right there
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I'm back for another nibble...
Several charity chains have rather small shops, so the example RickiBobby gives may be true, but i'd like to think it's isolated. However, the larger charity shops such as BHF (where my grubby hands handle the goods) are so busy I wouldn't forsee it happening. In fact, in our shop it's the opposite! When we come across some of the more "interesting items" a check will be done online for a price. The difference being our goods go on the shop floor, not out the back door. How many other shops put items worth £100+ up for sale like we do? Honesty and integrity is key to working for charity shops. Big love to all who donate and volunteer for the cause  |
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Honesty and integrity good in any line of work. Most working at Charity Shops ( the volunteers not the paid employees ) are doing it for the right
reasons and have my respect but they need to sniff out those who are scamming( and there's plenty) as they are dragging reputation of some charitable organisations into the gutter. Those connected with third world charities who are getting decent high wages through donations are utter hypocrites- do it for the love of those starving or not at all. |
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I received a letter from my charity HQ thanking me for "helping cut costs" (I added that bit) being a volunteer. In the process they made a retail profit of £35m last year. £35m!
The shareholders are no doubt rejoicing at their windfall and the same time laughing at us volunteering mugs The CEO sure doesn't work for free... http://www.bhf.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-directors/simon-gillespie.aspx |
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Emden 29 Jun 14 18:57
I worked voluntarily in a charity shop for a short while. Donated stock worth any money was quickly pilfered by the elderly staff and manager. I used to get up at 4-45 a.m. to go to an ATM in East Ham before going to work on Saturdays. The Oxfam shop was a few doors away from The Woolwich. Never saw a Saturday when immigrants weren't rifling through the bags dumped outside the shop. |
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http://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30327261/jobsurgent-street-fundraising-for-homeless-people-10-ph-basic-plus-benefits
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