Charities that don't use chuggers?

stg123

Wondered if anyone had a list to hand of charities that don't use chuggers.

I'm doing a big cycle ride and want to set up a JustGiving page.

My first thought was to give money to Macmillan nurses, but I've found out they use chuggers, which I'm totally morally opposed to.

My next search was Marie Curie, but turns out they had their chuggers' shady practices uncovered by the Telegraph - so much so that apparently they're being investigated.

Does anyone know of charities that have sworn off this sort of thing?

I'm not really keen to discuss the pro's and con's of chugging, I just want a list of good charities. It's my personal belief that it's wrong.

leveller2911

I stopped donating monthly to The Dogs Trust when I became aware that it would take up to 18 months of me paying £10-00 a month before any of the money went where it was intended. They pay a marketing company anything between £100-£200 for every DD they sign up.

My advice is support a small local charity close to you.There are thousands of small charities doing amazing work and they will spend your money wisely. I now donate to a small local Charity and I can see my money is being spent wisely.


I believe nearly all of the larger Charities pay chuggers so it seems its a race to the bottom.Each paying these companies more than the next charity,sooner or later none of the money will get to where it was intended.

All the charities should be made to clearly state on all advertising that some of the money you/I donate will go to profit making companies.As you say its just plain wrong and deceitful.

Errata

Does anyone know of charities that have sworn off this sort of thing?

I doubt your local Hospice uses chuggers and it benefits those with cancer just like Macmillan and Marie Curie does. Give it a call and ask.

Savvy_Sue

It tends to be the large national charities who use chuggers rather than the small local ones, so pick one close to your heart.

PlutoinCapricorn

There is no definitive list. If you have heard of them, it is likely that they fundraise in this way as all the big names seem to do it.

I would start by choosing a cause that I really care about, then find a shortlist of candidates and ask them whether or not they use face to face fundraisers:

"What type of charities use face-to-face methods to fundraise?

Face-to-face fundraising is used by a wide range of UK charities, from the largest national charities such as Greenpeace and Cancer Research UK to smaller, locally-based organisations, such as Staffordshire Wildlife Trust and Framework Housing Association. Some rely upon face-to-face fundraising for the majority of their voluntary income, while others use it in conjunction with other fundraising activities. Either way, face-to-face fundraising has been a critically important fundraising method for the UK charity sector."

http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/guidance/about-fundraising/face-to-face-activity/face-to-face-fundraising-the-facts-and-figures/

Opinion

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/guidance/about-fundraising/face-to-face-activity/face-to-face-fundraising-the-facts-and-figures/

Quote from the above website:

"...who seem to relish the contact with a fundraiser who can convey their passion for a cause in a more personal manner."

I've known a few chuggers and none of them had ANY passion for what they did, nor did they care about the charities were raising money for. All they cared about was the fact that they were paid a good commission and that every other weekend the company would throw 10 of them in to a minibus, drive them 100 or so miles to another town/city and put them up in a hotel for a couple of nights. They'd do a couple of hours work, go out on the !!!!, go back the hotel then do the same again the next day.

That's passion for you.

paddyrg

RSPB?
Your local animal shelter?
Oxfam and NSPCC claim to have dropped chugging too

Savvy_Sue

And I will say again, they use chuggers because IT WORKS! If it did not work, they would not do it. I dislike the practice, but then I dislike some other forms of fundraising, but if they are effective, charities will use them.

DS3, who was not renowned for his generosity as a child, is still donating to a charity which chugged him soon after he turned 18 - he's nearly 25 now.

You know and I know that it would have been more cost-effective for him to have come home and set up a standing order direct with the charity, but I know he wouldn't have got round to this.

Mistral001

leveller2911 wrote: »

I stopped donating monthly to The Dogs Trust when I became aware that it would take up to 18 months of me paying £10-00 a month before any of the money went where it was intended.
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I once sent a donation to the Dogs Trust and I always thought they were a respectable charity. I got a call from them the other day. They asked me to take part in a survey, but the survey quickly turned into a high pressure pitch for donating by direct debit. Well they lost my Trust.

CKhalvashi

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

It tends to be the large national charities who use chuggers rather than the small local ones, so pick one close to your heart.

I had the local Air Ambulance on the door the other week, and tried not to let me out until I'd filled out a 'survey', before attempting to invite himself in. I had my children in the back of the car, waiting to go to my mothers house, and didn't want to be separated from them with what could be anyone at the door!

He threatened to speak to the police regarding an assault (I had to push past him to get out the front door), but we haven't heard anything, and we know most of the police locally, so I'll assume I'm ok!

My neighbour (also a Cllr) told him to sod off when he couldn't produce a pedlars license, or she'd call the police, to a great deal of spiel about how us 'upper class conservative bunch' don't feel that charities should benefit (week before the election, she had a Conservative board outside her house).

I don't mind donating for charity (and we raise 6 figure sums each year for the community between the two of us), but I don't like charities taking the mick!

CK

Errata

What on earth are you waffling about. Charity collectors aren't selling anything and don't need a pedlars certificate.
As you and your neighbour are both "Councillors" I'm sure you will have reported the inappropriate behaviour of the collector to the Air Ambulance charity. Won't you? And reported the alleged "assault" to the police yourself. You wouldn't want to bring your "Council" into disrepute. Would you?