Charities sending unsolicited trinkets following donations

Brie

You should see the fireworks too when a volunteer discovers that one of their colleagues is actually a paid employee of the charity!  The language can be completely uncharitable!!!

(ex employee of a charitable organisation)

RogerBareford

Carrot007 said:

RogerBareford said:

But if a large company is getting £20 million a year with £1 million admin costs but a small one is getting £100,000 a year with no admin costs then you could say the larger charity is more effective unless you can get 200 of the small charities to raise funds for the same cause.

Many large charities use less that 1% of donations for the actual cause. Of course you can look this up. I think it should be required in bold font in large latters on any beggin letter.

If they are a begging charity they are probably not worthh donating to, there are many better options and depending on what it is maybe something local.

Yes i can definetly beleive that some charity's are as poor as that and one of the reasons i have never donated to a large charity and probably never will.

PaulBrighton2021

I made a one off donation to GOSH, and specifically opted out of future nags.. but they still same.. the postage alone must have  wiped out what I gave.. grr