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Real-life MMD: Should expenses count as donation?
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should expenses count as donation?
I organised and completed a sponsored walk for charity with around 20 others. By the time we’ve collected all monies we'll have raised around £1200. I had to spend around £50 on raffle prizes, ticket books, poster printing, fuel etc on top of my donation. Would it be morally wrong to claim that £50 from the total or should it be classed as part of my donation?
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I organised and completed a sponsored walk for charity with around 20 others. By the time we’ve collected all monies we'll have raised around £1200. I had to spend around £50 on raffle prizes, ticket books, poster printing, fuel etc on top of my donation. Would it be morally wrong to claim that £50 from the total or should it be classed as part of my donation?
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Personally, I don't think it would be wrong. You could have simply saved yourself all the trouble and just donated £50 to whatever charity and not bothered with the sponsored walk. Instead, you have gone to a lot of effort (well done you!) to motivate others to donate to the cause and I for one wouldn't complain if you reimbursed yourself for your out-of-pocket expenses from generating the extra donations.0
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I would like to think the charity would have warned you that there was a certain expected level of expenditure you'd need to have, and therefore you would have gone into this forewarned. If they did warn you then no, if they didn't then yes put in an expense claim.0
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Yes, it would be wrong to take it from sponsorship money. That money was donated to the charity and if it was done well gift aided. You can't just take money away from that. You should have thought about the expenses earlier - asked for a raffle prize donation instead of being sponsored, shared the expenses with the others.
I understand your reasoning but morally you can't decide in retrospect to divert money for expenses.0 -
People who give to charity are assuming their money goes to the good cause, not to a printer.0
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I think it would be morally wrong to take your expenses out of this money. The people who sponsored others will have expected the full amout to go to the charity.Lost my soulmate so life is empty.
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when you were setting things up or offering to do things for the charity you should have made it clear that apart from any donation you were personally making that any expenses incurred on their behalf would be taken from any donations with of course itemised receipts and only on this condition would you supply your free services.
If you did not do this in advance then you should not take any money to cover your outlay.
If they were told in advance and did not like the idea then you should have asked for printing ect money in advance if not forthcoming suggested that as you cannot afford it they maybe better off getting somebody who can. pointing out that a professional charity collection company would take more than just expenses and leave to them to decide.The richard montgomery matter0 -
The charity you have chosen to donate to probably mean something to you, and you wanted to support them any way you could, so look at this money as a donation towards the cause you support. Other friends/family members probably donated similar amounts, so can't you afford the same? In the grand scheme of things, the money was well spent, and think of all the good it did!0
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you have already made your own donation but cant afford more and are now giving your time.Tizzytiz93 wrote: »The charity you have chosen to donate to probably mean something to you, and you wanted to support them any way you could, so look at this money as a donation towards the cause you support. Other friends/family members probably donated similar amounts, so can't you afford the same? In the grand scheme of things, the money was well spent, and think of all the good it did!The richard montgomery matter0 -
It all depends on what you told people who participated and donated. If you said "all donations will go to the charity" you should not take any expenses out before sending the payment. If you said "all profits [or all proceeds] will go to the charity" you can take the £50 out before sending the payment.0
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I would say you should consider those expenses as your part of the donation, or more likely they helped you collect the amount you needed to.
Then again, it seems charities do have a "what's in it for you" part to fundraising now.
Happens all the time
1. You raise £2000 for said charity
2. You get a free prize be it a free holiday to walk the great wall of China, an entry into the London Marathon, etc.
When you sponsor anyone you should consider how much money is going to go to the charities actual aims. Chances are next to nothing.
So in a way £50 isn't all that wrong, but I wouldn't do it. In the same way I don't steal from church collection boxes0
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