[Closed] Giving to charities

Sounds a tad ungrateful to me. I would ask them to return the cheque so I could send it to a different charity.

I got a certificate from a charity congratulating me on all the money I raised by running a marathon, despite me telling them in advance that I had to withdraw due to an injury.

j_me +1!

I think that takes the mick. While charities do a great deal of good work, I fear they are eroding the goodwill towards them, especially with door to door commission based 'sales', and street sellers.

The rate at which charities are charged by commissioning companies is obscene, and the actual money which goes to the charity is paltry.

I can completely understand your frustration.

I think OP has every right to be grumpy - what you've experienced is wrong.

FWIW I help run a charity - [url= http://www.brainstrust.org.uk ]www.brainstrust.org.uk[/url], and as silly as it sounds, saying 'thank you' in a personal way is one area we find consistently difficult to get 100% right 100% of the time. I think we do a good job given the diversity of fundraising activity going on, our limited 'back office' resource, and also the different ways the money comes in - CAF, cash, JustGiving, Virgin Money Giving, cheques, Paypal, google checkout to name but a few, but yes, unsolicited invoicing for a repeat donation? Inexcusable.

Name and shame.

Name and shame.

please can we just guess then and you will say when we are correct
Derekstarshippotbelliedpigtrust.org???
brantappreciationsociety.com?

Poor service hardly likely to encourage you to give to them in the future

some of this frustration relates to an issue I'm currently having securing access to a toilet during HTN.
We have the individuals concerned around £1100 in total and they won't let us use their bog for a couple of hours.

cocks.

I was being a little more diplomatic... and would rather use the term arseholes.

Charity? You mean business?

😯

terrahawk I have a great plan why not give them an entirely different deposit this year 😉
That is poor on their part very poor.
I once worked for a national charity and we had zero degrees of freedom over what we did

Depends what charity it is and how they are set up - its a big whinge some people have that some charities spend too much money on back room staff, perhaps the one you donate to spends too little and theres isn't someone available to send out thank-yous.

Not every office/branch is set up to deal with donations either, especially if they depend on a lot of volunteer labour, so if you've money to send in its best to call and check where you should send it to, otherwise its going to get sent around a few times before it reaches to person who can bank it. I used to work for a charity and although I could receive donations of goods I absolutely could not receive or handle any kind of monetary donation, not even to pass on to someone who could.

When I put on a little event the charity (UK Youth) could not have been more helpful. The first year we have no idea how much we would raise, how many people would come and what would happen. They gave us free run of their entire premises even opening the climbing wall and running kyaking for free.

The second year they even took on loads of the admin ordering toilets, marquees etc.

Absolutely top people, especially Louis who now runs the event!

I have to say, like so much else in modern life I too am getting somewhat jaded by charities. I have given quite a bit over the last few years while I was working. I even gave an amount to Children in Need which out of my benefits was maybe a mistake.

What really annoys me is charities who set targets, all the adverts for events that require a minimum donation. I also used to get really wound up by Wogan, pre CiN and the charity auctions. OK they raised a load of money, but they seemed to be rewards for the privileged. What would have been wrong with saying if you want to spend a day golfing with Tiger Woods, Weekend trip to Paris etc, text the following number which will charge you £10 and we will pick a winner at random. I'm sure that way out of the millions of listeners the show had they would have raised at least as much as or even more than the fat cat donations (which probably got written off against tax). I also used to fume about the fact that Sir Terry would very kindly go out of his way to join you at the gourmet dinner/whatever. This, along with his continual whining at the Beeb who had paid him a not inconsiderable remuneration over many years. Yes we all moan about our employers and are obviously free to do so. I just found it unpalettable to hear him moan on a national show while sitting collecting a big pay cheque. This was why eventually I could no longer listen to him and wasn't sorry to see him go.

Sorry for the rant and the hijack, it just all sort of bubbled up and came out.

its a big whinge some people have that some charities spend too much money on back room staff, perhaps the one you donate to spends too little and theres isn't someone available to send out thank-yous.

we just want the use of someone's toilet that is inside a building on the site of HTN, in case a racer at HTN needs a crap. Unfortunately they'll have to hold it in cos the 'charity' have said 'no'.

Don't give to receive

From personal experience i used to work for a so called charity, they where a registered one as well, so totally legit.

We did a fundraising droping little envelopes off round a deprived area of a large city, the following week we went back and collected them, i got a huge number of envelopes back, the manageer, head scammer, and her assisant, didnt get so many.

Next day was the opening of the envelopes, quite a bit of cash was creamed off by the two counting it.

Another charity, two lovely ladies who where really committed to helping people with mental health problems, working for nothing maning a shop, regional manager bint calls round, parks on a double yellow, as she though she was important, she got a ticket, and told the two ladies head office would pay it, not her as she wa sin a charity funded comapny car and it was there problem .

Local hospice advertising for a fundraising manager £26,000 pounds per year, more than a care worker or nursing auxilary gets, absolutely disgusting, , job should be done by volunteers or peopl on work experience.

Ifyou want to give to charity, call in on them and ask what they want to buy, then either raise money for the product or buy it for them .

At least you know its going where you wanted.