Charity

gadget88

My wife was pressured into signing up to a charity lottery direct debit in a shopping mall. The leaflets mentions gamble aware and she’s already signed up to GameStop what would happen would they refuse this? I felt very bad as I got annoyed with charity worker but they are very pressuring has anybody else experienced this before and don’t these people work on commission? The charity in question we have a one off donation to two weeks ago. I’m not a fan of these lotteries? I phoned up to complain as we do like to give to charity but not in a pressured way in a mall? They don’t have these charity tins for one off donations anymore?

Exodi

Sorry what's the question? This sounds like a rant and may be better placed in the Praise/Vent/Warnings board.

Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but surely you could just ask them to cancel the direct debit or do it yourself with your bank?

Out of interest, did your wife mention she was signed up to GamStop? (not that's its relevant as it doesn't cover lotteries and she can still buy 100 national lottery tickets every week if she so desires, it only applies if they offer instant win games).

gadget88

Exodi said:

Sorry what's the question? This sounds like a rant and may be better placed in the Praise/Vent/Warnings board.

Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but surely you could just ask them to cancel the direct debit or do it yourself with your bank?

Out of interest, did your wife mention she was signed up to GamStop? (not that's its relevant as it doesn't cover lotteries and she can still buy 100 national lottery tickets every week if she so desires, it only applies if they offer instant win games).

No she never mentioned it but I think it’s a direct debit lottery 

Exodi

gadget88 said:

Exodi said:

Sorry what's the question? This sounds like a rant and may be better placed in the Praise/Vent/Warnings board.

Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but surely you could just ask them to cancel the direct debit or do it yourself with your bank?

Out of interest, did your wife mention she was signed up to GamStop? (not that's its relevant as it doesn't cover lotteries and she can still buy 100 national lottery tickets every week if she so desires, it only applies if they offer instant win games).

No she never mentioned it but I think it’s a direct debit lottery 

Then I'm not sure what you expect, and as I said above, lottery draws aren't covered by GamStop.

I'd get the DD cancelled and move on. To be blunt, I wouldn't shunt all the blame on them for this.

born_again

Keep walking & say no thanks to all of these people.
No pressure at all then.

TELLIT01

Yes these 'Chuggers' can be persistent, but just walk away.  That's what I always do.

Slight variation on the theme of charity donations, but we were on holiday last week and were walking past an RNLI station.  There were two ladies standing outside who asked us about donating.  We said we would speak to them on the way back, which we did.  I asked where the collection box was and the pretty cold response was a head shrug and "It's over there".  'Over there' was tucked away almost out of sight.  She then said "We really want people to sign up for regular donations".  I said I never do that, and was pretty well ignore after that.  I've never experienced that attitude from RNLI in the past.

molerat

A friend recently got chugged in a shop.  After they had signed up they got an e-mail from the chugging company on behalf of the charity

xxxxxxx Ltd is a professional fundraiser and is paid a fee for recruiting committed, long-term supporters for xxxxxxxxx (the Charity). 

This appeal is expected to raise approximately £6,350,000 in income over the next 5 years for the Charity. This will help the Charity to make a difference by helping people to prepare for and recover from crisis in the UK and around the world. 

The Charity expects to pay xxxxxxx Ltd approximately £2,800,000 (Notifiable Amount) for this appeal. The Notifiable Amount is calculated by multiplying the relevant fee (taking into account the gift amount) for each supporter acquired by the number of new supporters the Charity is seeking to recruit and adding any data management costs.

So the chugging company are getting 44% of the amount raised.

Aylesbury_Duck

molerat said:

A friend recently got chugged in a shop.  After they had signed up they got an e-mail from the chugging company on behalf of the charity

xxxxxxx Ltd is a professional fundraiser and is paid a fee for recruiting committed, long-term supporters for xxxxxxxxx (the Charity). 

This appeal is expected to raise approximately £6,350,000 in income over the next 5 years for the Charity. This will help the Charity to make a difference by helping people to prepare for and recover from crisis in the UK and around the world. 

The Charity expects to pay xxxxxxx Ltd approximately £2,800,000 (Notifiable Amount) for this appeal. The Notifiable Amount is calculated by multiplying the relevant fee (taking into account the gift amount) for each supporter acquired by the number of new supporters the Charity is seeking to recruit and adding any data management costs.

So the chugging company are getting 44% of the amount raised.

Yes, and the charity is getting over £700k p.a. for five years, which presumably is a lot more than they would otherwise get from other types of campaigns, otherwise they wouldn't award the contract.

born_again

gadget88 said:

My wife was pressured into signing up to a charity lottery direct debit in a shopping mall. The leaflets mentions gamble aware and she’s already signed up to GameStop what would happen would they refuse this? I felt very bad as I got annoyed with charity worker but they are very pressuring has anybody else experienced this before and don’t these people work on commission? The charity in question we have a one off donation to two weeks ago. I’m not a fan of these lotteries? I phoned up to complain as we do like to give to charity but not in a pressured way in a mall? They don’t have these charity tins for one off donations anymore?

Please don't take this the wrong way.
How hard is it to just keep walking or walk away?

My std line if they keep it up. I have my own charity.

sheramber

born_again said:

gadget88 said:

My wife was pressured into signing up to a charity lottery direct debit in a shopping mall. The leaflets mentions gamble aware and she’s already signed up to GameStop what would happen would they refuse this? I felt very bad as I got annoyed with charity worker but they are very pressuring has anybody else experienced this before and don’t these people work on commission? The charity in question we have a one off donation to two weeks ago. I’m not a fan of these lotteries? I phoned up to complain as we do like to give to charity but not in a pressured way in a mall? They don’t have these charity tins for one off donations anymore?

Please don't take this the wrong way.
How hard is it to just keep walking or walk away?

My std line if they keep it up. I have my own charity.

“No thanks”  is quicker

Ergates

molerat said:

A friend recently got chugged in a shop.  After they had signed up they got an e-mail from the chugging company on behalf of the charity

xxxxxxx Ltd is a professional fundraiser and is paid a fee for recruiting committed, long-term supporters for xxxxxxxxx (the Charity). 

This appeal is expected to raise approximately £6,350,000 in income over the next 5 years for the Charity. This will help the Charity to make a difference by helping people to prepare for and recover from crisis in the UK and around the world. 

The Charity expects to pay xxxxxxx Ltd approximately £2,800,000 (Notifiable Amount) for this appeal. The Notifiable Amount is calculated by multiplying the relevant fee (taking into account the gift amount) for each supporter acquired by the number of new supporters the Charity is seeking to recruit and adding any data management costs.

So the chugging company are getting 44% of the amount raised.

And yet, despite obviously being well aware of this, the charities still choose to use such companies.

Why do you think that is?