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Nick 50
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PostPosted: 23:53 - 30 Dec 2014    Post subject: Starting a charity Reply with quote
Sooo I have some how managed to be part of a small local team doing charitable work in the local community.

It is a very new venture and completely based on facebook at present.

I do believe it would be better to make it all official and go down the Charity route.

Has anyone started a Charity and can offer advice of things to be careful of or general start up advice?

Thanks,

Nick
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PostPosted: 23:55 - 30 Dec 2014    Post subject: Re: Starting a charity Reply with quote
Nick 50 wrote:


Has anyone started a Charity and can offer advice of things to be careful of or general start up advice?



Don't do it.
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PostPosted: 00:26 - 31 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I agree with Fisty. Dont do it.
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PostPosted: 00:30 - 31 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
It will have to involve accountants and they will bleed you dry.
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PostPosted: 00:46 - 31 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Any reason as to why don't do it out of interest?
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PostPosted: 00:58 - 31 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
because sooner or later you end up on here trying to solicit sponsorship for riding from lands end to john o groats and we have to be rude to you.

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Tracey Suntan-King
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PostPosted: 01:02 - 31 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nick 50 wrote:
Any reason as to why don't do it out of interest?


Loads of reasons. You'll have to have a Board of Trustees, Audit, Accuntants (as posted earlier), a Regulatory Framework will be imposed upon you. The charity's good intentions will be translated into "aims and objectives", targets will be set, and appraisals & business plans required.

That's just for starters (I've run charities to my shame, so have first-hand knowledge of this sh1t)

In other words, all the good will be sucked out of what you are doing and you will become pale shadows of what you used to be.

The Charities Commission is staffed by self-polluters with a clip-board/tick box mentality who've never done a good deed in their lives.

Hope that helps! Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 01:10 - 31 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tracey Suntan-King wrote:
Nick 50 wrote:
Any reason as to why don't do it out of interest?


Loads of reasons. You'll have to have a Board of Trustees, Audit, Accuntants (as posted earlier), a Regulatory Framework will be imposed upon you. The charity's good intentions will be translated into "aims and objectives", targets will be set, and appraisals & business plans required.

That's just for starters (I've run charities to my shame, so have first-hand knowledge of this sh1t)

In other words, all the good will be sucked out of what you are doing and you will become pale shadows of what you used to be.

The Charities Commission is staffed by self-polluters with a clip-board/tick box mentality who've never done a good deed in their lives.

Hope that helps! Thumbs Up


yep that is a great help thanks Tracey Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 31 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
great, I was interested in starting my own charity "condoms for africa"

basically instead of food we send them contraception, then children wouldn't die every day of hunger
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PostPosted: 16:39 - 02 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
unitynotsocrippledatmo wrote:
In most cases the more we do charity,the more we normalize a fvkd up society.


We let you live in society, I'd call that charity.

Come to think of it, maybe we should be less charitable.
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PostPosted: 11:05 - 03 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
In fairness I get the point unitcyscrppeldldf is trying to make.

The leader of the London homeless organisation (forget its name - is it Shelter, or another one?) even said that people shouldn't give to beggars because they're almost all just doing it to get money for booze and drugs. Giving money to them doesn't help anything, it just keeps them ticking along.

But to give to a charitable organisation, that's worth doing, as long as it hasn't already gone the way Tracey described...
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PostPosted: 12:12 - 03 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lord Percy wrote:
In fairness I get the point unitcyscrppeldldf is trying to make.

The leader of the London homeless organisation (forget its name - is it Shelter, or another one?) even said that people shouldn't give to beggars because they're almost all just doing it to get money for booze and drugs. Giving money to them doesn't help anything, it just keeps them ticking along.

But to give to a charitable organisation, that's worth doing, as long as it hasn't already gone the way Tracey described...


No... He's saying that anyone in that position needs a beating, that they're scum who can't be helped so instead need public punishment and ridicule.

As someone who suffers from mental illness himself, you'd think that he would see that help is required (and the majority of homeless addicts suffer from one mental affliction or another). I doubt we could beat the affliction out of him, any more than we could out of a homeless person...

That's what I didn't like about the point he was trying to make.
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PostPosted: 15:32 - 03 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
andys675 wrote:
great, I was interested in starting my own charity "condoms for africa"

basically instead of food we send them contraception, then children wouldn't die every day of hunger


I'm still pondering if you mean they will die of suffocation.
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PostPosted: 15:42 - 03 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lord Percy wrote:
people shouldn't give to beggars because they're almost all just doing it to get money for booze and drugs. Giving money to them doesn't help anything, it just keeps them ticking along.
But to give to a charitable organisation, that's worth doing, as long as it hasn't already gone the way Tracey described...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6kl17HH9s

I bet my donation wouldn't even cover a charities lunch expense.
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