Charities are a rip off?

Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

We have seen the houses the BLM heirarchy have bought with money accrued from donations. There are allways adverts for charities on FB with film stars or politicians as the front man whe get paid huge amounts and now we have Capt Sir Tom Moore: Watchdog to review charity's accounts

I'm not surprised if this statement is true Accounts show the Captain Tom Foundation gave out grants of £160,000 to four charities and paid out more than £162,000 in management costs in its first year. So cost more to run that it gave to good causes???

Obviously some charities do sterling work but there are others that seem to operaten just on the right side of legality. I especially dislike these that say your donation will be doubled by the UK government but then I believe any charity donations should be up to you, not the gov donating your money.

An area that really needs cleaning up or am I just being naive?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-60319650
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I was advised long ago that if you want to do charity fundraising, find a good cause, find a thing they need then set about buying them that thing. eg an incubator for the local critical care baby unit or a new radio for the local old folks home or some musical instruments for the local band.

It's nearly impossible to squander this type of donation and makes for a good target.
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Easy-X · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Mar 2019 Karma :

Large scale charities make about as much sense as organised religion in this day and age.

Keep it local. My wife collects bread about to be thrown out from local bakeries and ferries it over to the homeless shelter... Actually there seems to be a whole "grey sector" in thrown out food. I'm assuming Tesco can't officially donate end of shelf-life stuff else they'd pick up the liability if someone gets sick. Instead it passes through several hands to get some "distance" Thinking

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Im-a-Ridah · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Karma :

BLMGNF (BLM) needs to account for its $60 milllion.

I also wouldn't consider them a charity.

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BLM is rassis
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Ayrton · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Sep 2010 Karma :

I read about that and I'm not sure how I feel about it. In reality people need to be paid and you cant expect top quality people if your paying penuts. Giving money to his daughters companies is dodgy though and I wonder how many people would have still given money if they'd known his daughter was involved in PR and used it as one big campaign to kickstart her business.

Also his other daughter works in homeopathy and specialises in "energetically rebalancing the body" according to this article. In other words a quack Laughing

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11403668/tom-moore-daughter-hannah-ingram/

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Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

Alternatively people.coul be taxed appropriately and the state administer funding accordingly but apparently that's too socialist and doesn't give people.enough opportunities to virtue signal.
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Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

Elected mps a d thier various groupings set policy, not the civil service. That includes where tax is spent.
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thx1138 · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Karma :

a lot of charities are a rip off

browse some of the jobs.....

https://www.charityjob.co.uk/

Diggs · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Karma :

I was under the impression that good jobs at charities were reserved for dim but well-connected upper class types who couldn't hold down a job in the City, the modern equivalent of joining the clergy or becoming a nun if you will...
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