British Red Cross Mail Shot

Equaliser123

Ectophile wrote: »

I am getting fed up with their "special appeals" every single month.

Well, I bet the people suffering from famine, cancer, heart disease, etc, etc are getting pretty fed up too.

giraffe69

Well, I bet the people suffering from famine, cancer, heart disease, etc, etc are getting pretty fed up too.

No doubt but charities who appear to waste money and annoy potential donors are hardly helping their cause and given there are many who need and only some who will contribute doing it better is a reasonable aim.

olias

I just take out the free pen and bin the rest.

Olias

Dave_C_2

phill99 wrote: »

Yes it does seem a waste but the fact that you are talking about the British Red Cross on a public forum means that their marketing strategy is getting through to you and your awareness of them is high.

The publicity being that BRC are wasting donations, as a result like others, I cross them off the list.

The myth that "there is no such thing as bad publicity" was dreamed up by ad men. Need I say more?

Dave

Equaliser123

giraffe69 wrote: »

No doubt but charities who appear to waste money and annoy potential donors are hardly helping their cause and given there are many who need and only some who will contribute doing it better is a reasonable aim.

As others have said, charities have to run themselves as businesses.

Personally, I give for the cause rather than taking a judgmental view on how a charity collects money.

Torry_Quine

olias wrote: »

I just take out the free pen and bin the rest.

Olias

I do find the address stickers handy.

olias

Equaliser123 wrote: »

As others have said, charities have to run themselves as businesses.

Personally, I give for the cause rather than taking a judgmental view on how a charity collects money.

Here is an interesting one............

I am aware of at least one major charity (think cute andrex puppies), that has enough in reserves for the interest alone to more than pay their operating costs. ie they are self sufficient, yet they continue to aggresively chase more and more donations..................

Olias

forgotmyname

Maybe its just cynical old me but charity is now what it once was.

I had visions of someone who had a bit of spare time or skill and give that freely and someone at the end benefits from that.

I see a charity now as why are there £60k+ cars parked outside all paid for by the charity and pay wages well above the national average.

We had a leaflet dropped through the door some time back. Payday loan type of company. Stupid amounts of interest yet it seems they are a charity to help poor people? How does that work?
Icing in the cake. The government gave them £250,000 to help them run this charity?

Legalised loan sharks funded by the government?

Sayaka

forgotmyname wrote: »

I had visions of someone who had a bit of spare time or skill and give that freely and someone at the end benefits from that.

There are plenty of small charities that still operate in that way. Unfortunately you don't hear about them much, partly because the big boys have such marketing reach these days.

bod1467

Equaliser123 wrote: »

Well, I bet the people suffering from famine ....... are getting pretty fed up too.

I am a bad person - that made me smile.