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Over the years I like to think I've done loads of work, donating and other things to help charity, but apart from local stuff, run by people who really care and who channel all the funds to where they're needed, that's it.
Every time I see an emotive ad on TV, or see a shop NOT selling something of value my other half or I have donated, it makes me angry.
Most of all though, I've taken to having a look at the accounts (which are freely available, if occasionally tough to actually locate, online).
As an example, CancerUK employs 219 people on salaries of between £60,000 and £250,000 a year.
I wonder how much the people who they beg/emotionally browbeat from earn even a fraction of that.
Another example, the much smaller charity, Sense (which helps deaf/blind people) has 11 people on salaries of over £60,000 a year, together with a paragraph justifying it.
They all do it.
Like the NHS, with the 1000's of pointless ridiculously paid 'Managers'.
There are LOADS of experienced, able, willing and talented people, who really care about these causes who would do the same jobs for a maximum of say, £40,000 a year and release millions of £'s to where those who worked for it or donated it, intended for it to go.
Every time I see an emotive ad on TV, or see a shop NOT selling something of value my other half or I have donated, it makes me angry.
Most of all though, I've taken to having a look at the accounts (which are freely available, if occasionally tough to actually locate, online).
As an example, CancerUK employs 219 people on salaries of between £60,000 and £250,000 a year.
I wonder how much the people who they beg/emotionally browbeat from earn even a fraction of that.
Another example, the much smaller charity, Sense (which helps deaf/blind people) has 11 people on salaries of over £60,000 a year, together with a paragraph justifying it.
They all do it.
Like the NHS, with the 1000's of pointless ridiculously paid 'Managers'.
There are LOADS of experienced, able, willing and talented people, who really care about these causes who would do the same jobs for a maximum of say, £40,000 a year and release millions of £'s to where those who worked for it or donated it, intended for it to go.
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Following the demise of the Lads mags, I've decided to sponsor an out of work glamour model.
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I have to agree Study. I'd like to think I'm a compassionate sort (away from the forum) but it was on the radio the other day about all these scammers who rattle their tins under your nose who cream off the lions share and leave the actual charity with about 20 pence in the pound. We're now down to sponsoring a young girl in Africa, Donkeys in Palestine, a couple of other animal charities and we give to the Sally Army. It seems to have become something of an unsavoury racket with plenty of these firms.
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In the 21st century there is no compassion, only business,war and greed !
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I totally agree with you study. Especially about the donating to shops. Every time I move, which is often, I donate loads of good stuff to shops, so the last time I checked and I could not see hardly any of it
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Save a fortune on your laundry bills by giving your dirty shirts to Oxfam. They will wash and iron them and you can buy them back for 50p.
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An ex girlfriend of my ex boyfriend was always giving him stuff that she got from the charity shop she worked for. It is very annoying to think that the stuff you could have sold for serious money ends up in an employee's pocket
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They published charity top earners and it was a disgrace how many were on £100K+ a year.
Lots of them had come from business and were already millionaires so should be working for free and volunteering imo |
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On a serious note, maybe anything half-decent goes on ebay where they may well get a better price than in the shops.
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AFTERTHOUGHT • December 28, 2015 10:44 PM GMT
In the 21st century there is no compassion, only business,war and greed ! I agree with you there Afterthought |
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wages are a scandal
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i_agree_with_nick 28 Dec 15 22:54
Save a fortune on your laundry bills by giving your dirty shirts to Oxfam. They will wash and iron them and you can buy them back for 50p. |
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that was funny
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Stolen from Viz (nap)
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“good writers borrow, great writers steal.”
 Happy New Year Mike/Guys.  |
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Total agreement with o/p and to some of the smaller charities a gift of 20 or 30 quid is desperately needed. Still not convinced? Two words 'Kids Company'.
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Problem now is you know if you sign up to one of these charities say £5 a month or something of that ilk the charity will then give your information to dozens of other charities who will then bombard you with loads of junk mail, I think the whole process has become very divisive, yes they may be charities but its just become " big business "
With these large salaries only a fraction of the money donated goes to where you would expect it to go. |
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There are more than 195,289 registered charities in the UK that raise and spend close to £80 Billion a year.
Together, they "employ" more than a million staff – more than our car, aerospace and chemical sectors – and make 13 Billion ‘asks’ for money every year, the equivalent of 200 for each of us in the UK. In England and Wales there are; 354 charities for birds and 255 charities for animals. A 2013 parliamentary inquiry into the charity sector found there were so many charities that the Charity Commission for England and Wales was struggling to ensure that most registered charities were genuine, rather than tax avoidance schemes or political campaigning groups. The inquiry said the Commission, which receives more than 900 calls, letters and emails every day, didn’t have the staff to check whether our donations were actually going to real charitable purposes at all. |
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Plenty going to daesh
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I attended a charity tennis tournament last year and I'm convinced it was rife with corruption.
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Why did an Englishman win?
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Churches are charities - give generously !
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I agree.
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I played in a tennis open event up here a few years ago now and got through to the semi in both singles and doubles. They were so determined that a sassenauch wasn't going to win that they abandoned the competition and I never got paid out.
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There was a funny one on the radio a few days ago. Right wide boy. Can't remember the exact details but he'd set up a company and employed his family and if memory serves me right they were collecting money to give to the company with some fancy pull your heart strings title like, "Childrens Lives Hanging By A Thread." Of course they didn't tell the gullible who they were coning that it wasn't a charity. The interviewer pressed him several times how much they'd given to charity and every time he straight batted it and said they had donated to, "Childrens Lives Hanging By A Thread" which of course was this company with him and his family getting the spondies.
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I got a semi in the mixed doubles once...
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As long as you didn't try to return service with it.
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Oh please. short tennis skirts and cotton panties - I am trying to bet on the footy at the moment!!!
Not sure what the others were wearing Errr!!! |
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Mobo, do you contribute to all those charities for FGM? I wonder if some of them are scams? What do you think?
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they just didn't like you EO !
Fury over £234000 salary of the top boss at Save the Children www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Fury-234-000-salary-boss-Save-Children-Charit... 2 Feb 2014 - Fury over £234,000 salary of the top boss at Save the Children: ..... Paris Hilton looks downcast in head-to-toe black after back-to-back trips to ... Statement on CEO pay | Save the Children International https://www.savethechildren.net/statement-ceo-pay Save the Children International's CEO, Jasmine Whitbread, earned $368,260 in 2014. As CEO of Save the Children International Jasmine Whitbread is the head ... How We Pay Our Staff | Save the Children UK www.savethechildren.org.uk/pay-at-save-the-children At Save the Children, each of us is driven by our mission to build a world where all ... Our principles are to pay our staff a fair salary that is competitive within the ... the Chief Operating Officer, the HR Director and the Reward Manager, all in an ... |
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every few years there is a scandal over pay .... and then it appears to be forgotten
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I picked on Save the children as it was my charity of choice until a similar scandal erupted
... it appears they have gone back to scratching each others backs WHO ARE THE TRUSTEES ? |
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give to people you know - big issue or local food banks?
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Apparently Cafod seem to be operating in a similar manner to Save the Children. They had a delegation travel abroad recently on a jolly that cost a large amount in expenses.
I've stopped giving to charities completely as they are now all tarred with the same brush as far as I'm concerned. |
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David Milliband paid $600,000 per annum by refugee charity International Rescue. The whole thing stinks.
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wtf is milliband going to do for them??
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The same as Blair did as middle east peace pudding ambassador
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