Support Our Soldiers - Genuine, Non Profitable Group

PHARR

Some of you may know or may not of known that the famous 'Help for heroes' charity is mainly a business in where it only donates something like 20% of their profit and money towards supporting our forces.

This is still fantastic yes but people dont see the smaller groups and the actual genuine everyday people from England who put smiles on lads faces out in Afghanistan.

Support Our Soldiers is a non profitable group and they even pay out of their own good pockets to post parcels and morale boxes out to those soldiers out in the war zone who don't receive much mail.

They spend their own time writing or emailing the guys and girls out there giving them 1 - 1 support and it definetley shows because the guys always write a thanks back.

Please take 5 minutes of your time to look at this group, its fantastic and has alot of wonderful people working for it.

Google 'Support Our Soldiers' as i cant post the link.

Many Thanks

kathy89

Thankyou paddy, i will take a look now.

Enough cant be done to support our forces imo

McKneff

I'm sure you dont mean 20% of the profit, you probably mean 20% of donations and the rest 80% is spent on admin.

Big difference.

barak

Paddy_H wrote: »

Some of you may know or may not of known that the famous 'Help for heroes' charity is mainly a business in where it only donates something like 20% of their profit and money towards supporting our forces.

Really? I don't know anything about the finances of Help for Heroes, but a quick look at the most recent accounts on the Charity Commission site revealed the following:

Financial Review of the year
During the year under review the group earned income of £45.7m (2009: £19.6m), made
grants of £41.7m (2009: £17.0m) and incurred costs, other than grants, of £7.9m (2009:
£3.5m).

http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends20%5C0001120920_ac_20100930_e_c.pdf

SailorSam

That seems to be an easy way that people can support your charity.
Anyone buying from Amazon use this link to donate 5% with no extra cost

Support Our Soldiers

PHARR

Apologies if i got it wrong, its what i heard, im a soldier myself and its just something we got told.
However SOS have made a massive difference out there in Afghanistan, When soldiers look like they don't get much mail or any shoe boxes of goodies their liaison officer notes this on the sly and contacts SOS where an everyday civilian worker, a mum, a teacher, a dentist or whatever then fills up a shoe-box of goodies out of their own pocket and send its to this solider.

This is truly awesome ordeal and i hope you take a look and maybe even donate.

Thank you for above facts and numbers and Sam thank you for that post.

heretolearn_2

I know you are trying to drum up support for a charity yourself, but you shouldn't do it by telling pretty disgusting lies about another charity in the same field. That's a serious allegation of mismanagement you made there and you should not have said something based on gossip crap. If you want to make an allegation like this, have the intelligence and decency to check it out for yourself first. I support Help for Heroes and I am neither a moron or a conmerchant to be taking money off people under false pretences, which is what you accused them of.

Help for Heroes is not a business, it is a charity. 100% of donated money goes directly to those in the forces. the 'business' side of things covers the running costs AND creates further funds to go to those in the forces.

researcher

It seems like a very worthy charity, I'll certainly be filling a shoe box for Xmas.

http://www.supportoursoldiers.co.uk/

If you intend to do so too, do check carefully the items you can and can't send, all the information is on the site.

(I'm sure the OP had good intentions, so I am not going to criticise his error).

absoluteutopia

OP im going to send a couple of boxes, i know the site has suggestions but id like to get it right. As a soldier what would you like in your box?

oldtoolie

Before you dis other charities, you might want to look at the accounts of your own.
The last accounts (2009) posted at the Charity Commission for Support our Soldiers show this:
income £283,000
fundraising expenditure £186,000
charitable expenditure less than £20,000
reserve carried over £36,000

I have doubts about a charity that spends on fundraising nearly ten times what it spends on charitable activities.

heretolearn_2

ha, so the OPs charity's own accounts show that they use less than 10% of the money they raise in supporting the soldiers!