Charities nagging for more money....

janninew

Norbertsmum wrote: »

PLEASE report these people!
The charity that is employing them will be mortified at the tactics they are using. They are employed on a comission basis so want you to sign up, but they also have strict set of guidelines they are supposed to work to. Mentioning you car and ring will certainly be seen as over-steping the mark and will lead to disiplinary action being taken.

Don't worry that you don't know the chuggers name as the charity will know which person is working which street at any given time and day.

I did think about reporting it, but thought there would be little point! The man from the cancer charity was representing one of the largest and well known charities in Britain and I was not impressed with how he came across. Will look into reporting him, hopefully what he said to me isn't the norm!

pinkshoes

mathsmaster wrote: »

I think if you go through life only doing nice things for others because you expect to be thanked, you are kind of missing the point. If you genuinely cannot spare one pound a month all you had to do was use the bin but, then again, perhaps you were already over stretching yourself with the fiver?

You obviously didn't read the OP, as they didn't say anything about expecting to be thanked.

The post is about a seemingly ungrateful charity that as asking the kind donor to up their donation by 20% before they've even started!!

Personally I would cancel the £5/month direct debit, save it up, then donate £60 a year to a local charity of your choice, who will no doubt be MUCH more grateful.

I do not donate to any charity who pester for money. Nor do I like the large amount of money they pay to their staff. Local only for me.

simax

pinkshoes wrote: »

You obviously didn't read the OP, as they didn't say anything about expecting to be thanked.

The post is about a seemingly ungrateful charity that as asking the kind donor to up their donation by 20% before they've even started!!

Personally I would cancel the £5/month direct debit, save it up, then donate £60 a year to a local charity of your choice, who will no doubt be MUCH more grateful.

I do not donate to any charity who pester for money. Nor do I like the large amount of money they pay to their staff. Local only for me.

Thank you pinkshoes, that was exactly my point. I hadn't even started yet!

Mathsmaster, I could afford it a hundred times over a month easily, but it's not the point. I chose to donate an amount, and before I had even parted with a penny, they are spending other peoples money trying to get more out of me.

I know it was only an increase from £5 to £6, but it's not the point, and I cancelled out of principle.

CHR15

^^ Good for you too.

I sponsored a Donkey once, holy moly, I could have bought my own Donkey if I add up all the postage for the junk mail I have received since sponsoring the stupid thing.