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Just found out my sister sponsors one of them snow leapords. £3 per month.
Just recieved a letter saying that the direct debt did not get paid this month and they will try to take payment along with a charge of £18.50 on the 10th of March. Failure to keep up you payments may affect your credit rating.
Unreal!!!
Got me thinking about charies and found out some intresting facts.

A lot of charities charge 10-60% to administrate donations.
Some American onec take upto 92%
Last year children in need got £75million in donations, £47.5million spent on admin, wages, advertising, legal fees, pension and investments.
Sounds unreal but not as bad as some where nothing goes to charitiy.

Fees for high street 'chuggers' eat up millions donated to charities | Mail Online

Or our ex prime ministers tony blair faith foundation:
£3.608Million in donations £3.25Million in admin.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...x-mystery.html

If you do donate to charity might be worth checking how much of your cash actually gets there.
 
I stopped giving donations to bigger charities a couple of years ago when I found out that most charity bosses earn six figure sums and have huge fancy offices. I now give to local smaller charities that are run by volunteers,every couple of months I buy 40/50 pounds worth of cat and dog food and give them to a local animal sanctuary or the local cats protection,and give to a local hospice. Chuggers normally get a two word answer.
 
I has a guy in Gateshead with about 4 teeth ask me for some change for his cider when i was down there at a retro event, i gave him a quid, probably got a whole bottle of White Lightning with that :lol:
 
IDCHAPPY said:
I has a guy in Gateshead with about 4 teeth ask me for some change for his cider when i was down there at a retro event, i gave him a quid, probably got a whole bottle of White Lightning with that :lol:
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Agree about local charities some local charties only get by with local donations.
As for the homeless guy!!
I was working in the South African Embassy in Trafalger Sq. Was asked for some spare change by a guy lying down on street. didnt have any, but did actually get him a fiver out of the cash point machine he was lying next to.
Got pulled up by a bike cop and asked if I was buying drugs. Explaned situation, He said to give donations to "Shelter" charity for the homeless. As he was not a card registed member. Told him sleeping bag was proof enough for me.
Ironic really and quite sad. Yes you could get a fiver out of a cash machine in the 90s.
 
The world has gone mad with charities.
I remember Live Aid, and was probably the first time I had ever heard of Ethiopia.
There is now over 200 registed charities for Ethiopia alone. Google it and see.
Every private school and university has charity status and most public school is now getting Foundation status so the rich can make money off us. Right now, over 160,000 Registered charties in the uk alone.
 
One of my customers runs a local charity and he's making a fortune from peoples good will. I am sure its al legal and above board but he must be on at least 100k and he only seems to work part time.
 
thompsonbrown said:
The world has gone mad with charities.
I remember Live Aid, and was probably the first time I had ever heard of Ethiopia.
There is now over 200 registed charities for Ethiopia alone. Google it and see.
Every private school and university has charity status and most public school is now getting Foundation status so the rich can make money off us. Right now, over 160,000 Registered charties in the uk alone.
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facts arent quite right re public schools, you certainly arent paying towards them in any means or form.
 
imo, most people that give to advertised 'charity' are those who earn too much, feel guilty and need to portray a sense of self worth to others who may be watching or those within ear shot of a conversation.
hence why there are 160k charities about, all 'providing a service' for the cause....giving those people well paid jobs and creating an industry of 'the feel good factor' when we all know the receivable monies are a fraction of whats collected!! crazy.

imagine a parent who has lost their job after ill health, cant pay the bills or feed the kids for 3-4 days & desperate, it is seen in India and the u.k, they ask people to please help them, only difference is in the u.k you will be arrested for 'begging' because we all know people here in the u.k are well off and do not live in poverty!!

does my head in
 
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facts arent quite right re public schools, you certainly arent paying towards them in any means or form.
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Public schools like the comprehensive I went to we do pay for mate.
Lets say I want to set up a Free school like "Ark schools" The goverment give me £4M for every £1M I put in upto a value of 16million.
Then I have to lease the school to the Department for Education for a min 7 year contract. Every child that comes to school the goverment give Approx £5000 per yr per pupil. So that school is a Charity/ Foundation status. but set up and ran with Tax payers money. The best part is after 7yrs That school that cost £20M is 100% owned by me. I could sell it as I not only own the school but also the land. I know It sounds Crazy but check it out through Department for education site.
 
Public schools are the vernacular for private schools in the good old uk, if your referring to a comp as a public school you have it all wrong unless your in America where the reverse is true, still with me :) When your chatting about academy status for schools you need to consider what is actually being made available to those running them. you may think that after 7 years you own it all, but the problem is the monies actually then being given to you per child doesnt match up too well with the costs required to run the school successfully, hence why the government is now taking them back in hand as happened with 10 last week.

15 years ago I was a bursar for an lea school of 1750 kids and we got something like 1000 per kid per year on average to run the school, pay staff, repair buildings etc against a public school pupil who's parents were paying around £10000 to £12000 to keep their kid educated along with the taxes to keep the kids in my school educated.

The pot of money hasnt changed from the government, just the way they allocate it and sadly it wont work long term as it isnt enough.
 
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