Chuggers - when will charities ever learn!!!!

Malthusian

Maybe Bob is referring to the people that give them money rather than the charity owners who employ chugging.

katejo

Alter_ego wrote: »

Sorry Bob, I work for a large UK charity. Chugging works - I'm not making it up! Not an idiot either.

Not with me it doesn't! I personally blacklist any charity which I see using chuggers. Collection tins fine but not chuggers. I steer clear of all of them.

pdt_uk

FYI there is a new petition that has been set up on the Government website trying to ban doorstep chuggers.

codger

The view we've always taken is that chuggers could as well be flogging the virtues of a charity as the virtues of a timeshare. Charities who employ these agencies clearly couldn't care less what chuggers say or what chuggers do: it's your money they're after, not your trust, not your loyalty, not your willingness to participate.

I'm a Trustee of a major charity and despite what has been said earlier on this thread -- that it's a known fact that chugging works -- we also know that reputational damage works in its own way, too. It may not happen in the short-term, but long-term? As you sow, so will you reap.

As someone else said on here: walk on by. You shouldn't even allow them onto your radar, still less into your purse.

Alter_ego

Malthusian wrote: »

Maybe Bob is referring to the people that give them money rather than the charity owners who employ chugging.

Yes maybe.

skintpaul

report to the charity they supposedly represent. More complaints they get, less likely to keep them on.

summerlady_2

The OPs post made me feel really sad.

I did street collections for Cats Protection for about 10 years, but finished some time ago.


I was a local volunteer, with a tin. We collected cash only.


We were licenced by the council for particular days, times and locations. We were not allowed to approach anyone, stand in the middle of the path or rattle the tin. The tabards were supplied by the charity.


People approached us to donate. There were regulars who said "I wondered when you would be here" and gave a large sum, and others who just dumped their small change. We would get people who would say they hated cats - and often they were the ones who would stop for a friendly chat.


I could never have asked people for bank details or to sign up for anything. If they wanted more information, we would give a local contact number.


People have become less trusting of charities - personal details are passed from one charity to another (for money, no doubt).

ColinFishwick

I find if you never make eye contact with them same with any companies outside stores plugging there warez they very rarely ask me. If they do get asked I smile and say "no thank you" I never get into a conversation with them much as I liked to to tell them I find what they doing morally repugnant but that would just encourage them.

I will never give to charities money in this way and I find it very wrong they ask for peoples personnel details in the street on top of that the security aspect.

summerlady_2

skintpaul wrote: »

report to the charity they supposedly represent. More complaints they get, less likely to keep them on.

I'm not sure that they care. I reported one particularly persistent pair of doorsteppers to SCOPE.


The person I spoke to confirmed that they were agents on commission, promised to look into it and let me know the outcome and I never heard a word.


The agents had travelled 100 miles to get to where I was visiting, and were targeting flats for the elderly.

Pollycat

summerlady wrote: »

I'm not sure that they care. I reported one particularly persistent pair of doorsteppers to SCOPE.


The person I spoke to confirmed that they were agents on commission, promised to look into it and let me know the outcome and I never heard a word.


The agents had travelled 100 miles to get to where I was visiting, and were targeting flats for the elderly.

Did you tell SCOPE that they were door-knocking elderly people?

I would also have reported them to the Council.