Dogs Trust - complaint

50Twuncle

Whilst I appreciate the good work done by Dogs Trust (et al)
I wish that they would stop sending us letters asking for more money
We already give them £10 per month and to receive letters asking for more and giving us stories of abuse to dogs tugging at our heart strings - really upsets both of us........
The latest arrived this morning "OUR VETERINARY BILLS ARE GOING UP BY £400,000 - WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP" bugs the hell out of me - to start with, they could save a small fortune by stopping sending these circulars........

Mistral001

I once gave to Dogs Trust and get all that sort of literature through the post as well. I throw all of it in the bin, but sometimes read the magazine before binning it.

I am afraid many charities, forget that they are charities and start seeing themselves as businesses where raising money is almost regarded like sales. Its a pity that Dogs Trust seems to have gone down that road as they used to be quite a good charity.

Maybe we both should try to find another dogs charity to give to. At least we will know that our money will not be spent on advertising and will go to the dogs.

SueMaggie

21Twinkle wrote: »

Whilst I appreciate the good work done by Dogs Trust (et al)
I wish that they would stop sending us letters asking for more money
We already give them £10 per month and to receive letters asking for more and giving us stories of abuse to dogs tugging at our heart strings - really upsets both of us........
The latest arrived this morning "OUR VETERINARY BILLS ARE GOING UP BY £400,000 - WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP" bugs the hell out of me - to start with, they could save a small fortune by stopping sending these circulars........

Use the envelope enclosed with the appeal to send them a note asking that they not send you any further similar letters.

Check the address panel of the letter they sent you as some charities have a box to tick there so you can opt out of future mailings.

jameskye1983

my dog came from Dogs Trust and the way they deal with re homing is great but once things actually get going...
We were originally told someone would attend a meeting at our home to do a home assessment to make sure back garden is safe , secure and if the home is safe , secure. no one showed and when we contacted them we were told "" no one is coming your to far "".
We went to them instead with photographs at the ready and we were told "" dont need them "".

We had a look around the dogs they had available for re homing and we seen a pup that had just been brought over from Ireland along with 5 sisters and 1 brother.

But we often see the Dogs Trust in our local supermarket and we keep telling them we have a dog from them and the last time we met a woman there she actually turned round to mum and me and said "" well all the more reason to give us money dont you think ""

dorisday

what ive learnt from most large charities is that they ARE a business and someone gets paid to run them and salaries dont come cheap. It stopped me from giving to large charities I now give to small ones such as the local cat and dog shelter
Hate to think that for every £1 I used to give only a very small percentage ended up for the needy.

Savvy_Sue

Any charity should be able to flag your name on their mailing lists with a note NOT to send you further mailings / begging letters. If they can't, they'd be in breach of the Data Protection Act, IMO.

wymondham

I always stop giving to charities that continually post items to me - why donate to a charity that wastes it on continual postage?

kingfisherblue

My local supermarkets have wheelie bins for cat food and dog food donations, for local animal rescue centres. I prefer to give this way, instead of in cash to a larger charity, as I too have been continually asked in the past for yet more money after donating once.

emsywoo123

I run a business supplying stationery, and clearly remember to this day a few years ago approaching a well known charity that was locally based to offer to organise their office supplies for trade price (i.e. no profit for me) and was told that they "couldn't be bothered" to look at changing suppliers.

I did point out they could save ALOT of money, but they assured me it would be too much like hard work............

I stopped giving to them after that.

gravitytolls

I prefer to support local rescue centres either through cash donations in collection bins or food in collection bins. I can't bear the thought of my few pounds being spent on TV ads and spam mail, not to mention the door to door sales staff.

I once asked a door to door how much of the donations was spent on her wages? She said 'none, not one penny.' I asked 'how does she get paid then?' She replied 'each charity has a set aside amount to spend on fund raising.' She didn't seem to consider that the set aside fund came from fund raising.

Anyhoo, though I think it's pretty dire that charities should feel the need to advertise in this way, for fear of not receiving enough donations, I really don't feel that donations should be received without being able to specify the amount that you will actually be giving.

leveller2911

I stopped giving to the Dog Trust via a monthly DD purely down to the fact that they pay private companies £millions for acting as professional fundraisers.They are paid somewhere in the region of £75-£120-00 per Direct debit donator that they sign up so if you pay a DD of £10-00 a month the Charity will make no money until you have been donating for over 12 months ...

They phoned me after I started a thread on MSE about the amount they pay to Professional fundraisers trying to justify the vast sums that they along with all the other major Charities pay private companies.. I also found out from the accounts that they paid a number of people over £100k a year and others over £75k a year..

I no longer donate to them I donate to small local charities that spend every penny wisely...