Charity sweets

grumpygardener

Yesterday my wife bought a small bag of chocolate raisins from a Macmillan Sweets4 box left at her hairdressers. She didn't think twice about the £1 donation, Macmillan is a very worthy cause. It wasn't until she got home that she found out only 10 pence of that £1 actually goes to Macmillan. What a swindle by Sweets4, giving only a small percentage - the other 90p (less the cost of the few sweets inside) no doubt lining other peoples' pockets.

z1000

So the fuel for delivering them, the wages of the people that deliver them, the VAT on the sweets, the cost or packaging, distribution, warehousing, insurance and vehicles all have to come out of that 90p, that is also assuming that everyone is honest and puts in £1, not 50p or indeed no money at all so the theft rate is actually running at about 25% currently.
Do you know of any other business that can operate with 25% of the stock being thieved AND still donate the money?
Thought not,

BJV

MMMM.... I would think that any company big enough to be able to have a distribution center, cars, insurance, fuel, staff would also be able to negotiate the price down for cheap sweets. Therefore being able to give more to the cause that people think they are donating to.

I think well for me at least and I have seen the type of sweets the post refers to people know that they are paying more but don't mine as they think that a chunk is going to a good cause.

The reality is that it does not.

Surprisingly if this is the company you are talking about Sweets 4 Limited have just gone into liquidation. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07505351

Katiehound

I would suggest there is nothing new there- think of all the charity Christmas cards which are sold with only a teeny percentage actually going to the charity.

photome

BJV wrote: »

MMMM.... I would think that any company big enough to be able to have a distribution center, cars, insurance, fuel, staff would also be able to negotiate the price down for cheap sweets. Therefore being able to give more to the cause that people think they are donating to.

I think well for me at least and I have seen the type of sweets the post refers to people know that they are paying more but don't mine as they think that a chunk is going to a good cause.

The reality is that it does not.

Surprisingly if this is the company you are talking about Sweets 4 Limited have just gone into liquidation. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07505351

Maybe 10p a packet was more than they could afford