Right or Wrong decision?

[hoggy952]

Just been reading about the man who dressed as a snail taking part in the London Marathon. He was hoping to raise ?100k but only managed ?20k....a decent amount.

I think its a disgrace, he is always fund raising and has raised over ?5m over the years.

The excuse they gave, is that they incurred too many costs! Rubbish!

BBC News - London Marathon snail crawl man Lloyd Scott sacked

[smirnoff_rules]

~~~~in shit holes sitting at there desks doing ~~~~ all but counting the money

[cgscott]

Wrong. As smirnoff said too many bigwigs that get paid for running charitys and this poor guy gets the sack because he didnt meet a target.

Society's ~~~~ed. The countrys ~~~~ed.

[barrowmanandrew]

so how does that work?

is he (was he) a full time worker who gets paid a wage to do stuff for charity?

what advertising did the charity do prior to the marathon?

so what they saying, if he raises more money, they don't want it?

[hoggy952]

These charities are fund raising businesses. They are not volunteers but paid employees and they take a handsome salary before the folk that they are raising cash for see a penny.... As with any business if you don't perform you get the boot.

Personally, I see these charities as pretty low, my interpretation of a charity is that the staff are volunteers and only expenses are taken from the fund.

If the beneficiaries see a penny in the pound, then they are doing well.

[barrowmanandrew]

These charities are fund raising businesses. They are not volunteers but paid employees and they take a handsome salary before the folk that they are raising cash for see a penny.... As with any business if you don't perform you get the boot.

Personally, I see these charities as pretty low, my interpretation of a charity is that the staff are volunteers and only expenses are taken from the fund.

If the beneficiaries see a penny in the pound, then they are doing well.

i had no idea,
i thought charities were basically run by volunteers.......

how gullable am i..

[patkins]

Well there was nothing very charitable about that organization.
Yes indeed, most of these orgs. have overpaid pen pushers at the helm with a pittance going to the actual intention.

[cgscott]

Have a look at this.


Salary survey: charity chief executives' pay sorted alphabetically | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk

Nobody works for nothing. Big money in charitys. Hence the reason they never off the streets or away from your door.

I only pay to 2 charitys. And they both focus on our country alone.

Salvation Army salary. Salvation Army 10,540 GBP
Barnados 100,000 GBP

[smirnoff_rules]

l remember chatting to a bird selling roses years ago in the pub and she was selling them or a ?1 but only buying them for a few pence and her and boyfriend were making 500 notes a week for 3 days and only had to give the charity 5% of the takings

[thc4me]

Did you know that a so called "charity" only has to give 15% of it's over all profits to the named project to be clased as a "charity" !!!
I think this has gone the same as everything elce in this once GREAT country of our's the people at the top are just taking the piss out of us all gready,selfsh,~~~~ing,coonts

[Snowy79]

A lot of Charities are one big con. I remember about 10 years a go there was a program on the TV about some of the household name charities and the money they had in the bank. Loads of them could have solved the problems they were set up for if they spent the money but the money was being spent on wages and collecting more money.

I was out in Tanzania last year and talking to a guide that had lived out there for 18 years. He regularly met up with some of the Charities as he was English but spoke a few African dialects. He was saying some of the true Volunteers would be sent home if they completed projects too quickly as the Charities wanted regular photos being sent showing kids dying of aids and staving. The reason being so they could get even more Charity money.

[Canker_Canison]

These people have a lot to answer for when it comes to profits from everything they touch.... Cobra Group.

Used to work for them selling Gas & Electricity a few years ago. Generally over hyped high pressure sales when you work on a commission only basis.

There are a group that set up in the town, can't remember which charity they were collecting for. It's amazing the look you get if you ask them if they are part of the Cobra Group. It's like you've discovered the secret recipe for the Big Mac sauce & need to be silenced.

[Kalipo]

I dont give to charity.. never have never will.. simple..

This is a prime example of that fact.. if someone or something needs ?100 for instance.. ?300 would have to be donated to cover everything..

Charity begins at home..

[Katherine5]

wrong

Wrong. As smirnoff said too many bigwigs that get paid for running charitys and this poor guy gets the sack because he didnt meet a target.

Society's ~~~~ed. The countrys ~~~~ed.

Of course wrong!!! we expect all beautiful things

[cablefreejunkie]

l remember chatting to a bird selling roses years ago in the pub and she was selling them or a ?1 but only buying them for a few pence and her and boyfriend were making 500 notes a week for 3 days and only had to give the charity 5% of the takings

i guess you should never buy a bird roses then
on a serious note there are about 160000 registered charities in the uk with an annual turnover in excess of ?52 billion,,no wonder there at it,,every high street up and down the country is swamped with young people giving the sob story about this and that cause and trying their damned hardest to get you to agree to a monthly direct debit
no doubt they are just causes but when you delve a bit deeper and see how much actually goes to those that need it, its a disgrace,,where do you draw the line ? give nothing at all