'MSE to donate £35,000 to the campaign for financial education in schools...' blog

Former_MSE_Helen

This is the discussion to link on the back of Martin's blog. Please read the blog first, as this discussion follows it.

Read Martin's "MSE to donate £35,000 to the campaign for financial education in schools – a political donation" Blog.

Please click 'post reply' to discuss below.

jamesd

Thanks to the trustees and patron of the MSE Charity as well as its advisory panel, if involved. Good move, assuming it's acceptable under charity law, no sure what that says about this sort of thing. But I assume that the trustees and Martin checked that already.

MoneySavingUser

How many of those millionaire MP's are matching the donation?

MSE_Martin

jamesd wrote: »

Thanks to the trustees and patron of the MSE Charity as well as its advisory panel, if involved. Good move, assuming it's acceptable under charity law, no sure what that says about this sort of thing. But I assume that the trustees and Martin checked that already.

This isn't via the MSE Charity (that's a separate thing in its own right) its a direct donation via MSE technically to the charity PFEG

jamesd

Thanks for the correction. That neatly sidesteps any chance of an issue.

magpiecottage

Good move.

I have seen teachers successfully persuade the Financial Ombudsman Service that did not understand that one of the projected maturity values on their endowment illustration was not enough to pay off the mortgage

(e.g. £27,000 is not enough to pay off a £40,000 mortgage).


If teachers really are that thick we are in big trouble!