Setting up a Charity to change the general public view...
Discussion
I am 20 years old and I am due to sell my car within January hopefully to start up a Charity, or a Business of some sort, I should have around £15,000 to play with.
I really want to help good causes out, there is a public outcry in regards with the way charities are run, such as the misuse of the funds the general public donate on paying their ceo's 6 figure salaries, wasting the money on advertising & other stupid things instead of using the money for what was esentially donated for.
I was thinking of starting a trust to begin with as it seems less complicatied from what I seem to grasp of.
I strongly believe that is a market out there for another Charity to start up, cause a stir, bang heads together, and really change the way the bunch conduct themselves with the use of funds being donated to them.
Basically the charity will be a non profit one and it will essentially be set up to provide 100% transparcey on all donations being taken in, with a promise that funds will be used in a certain timeframe (weeks - 3 months) and to be used to sit on and invest in portfolios, like Children In Need and many other's do.
Instead of handing out cheques to good causes, the trust will buy the resources, example: Hospital need equipment - We contact the supplier, buy the equipment and give it to the hospital.
Obviously it's early days but do you think something like this could really take off and work?
I think the hardest part will be starting off, knocking on doors and convicing people to part with their money where the majority have lose faith in all of them. The difficult part is proving and showing that this one is different.
I really think though it will only take one, or two famous or sort of an influenced figure out there to credit the work the charity does for it to really take off.
What are people's thoughts on this? I personally think it's a fantastic idea, the public are outranged but from the record taking Children In Need took in the other day on BBC (They could lie about the figure mind you) it seems people still don't mind parting their cash to these existing rob merchants even though they are clearly set up for the financial gain and not for the intending purpose of their existence.
Kind Regards
I really want to help good causes out, there is a public outcry in regards with the way charities are run, such as the misuse of the funds the general public donate on paying their ceo's 6 figure salaries, wasting the money on advertising & other stupid things instead of using the money for what was esentially donated for.
I was thinking of starting a trust to begin with as it seems less complicatied from what I seem to grasp of.
I strongly believe that is a market out there for another Charity to start up, cause a stir, bang heads together, and really change the way the bunch conduct themselves with the use of funds being donated to them.
Basically the charity will be a non profit one and it will essentially be set up to provide 100% transparcey on all donations being taken in, with a promise that funds will be used in a certain timeframe (weeks - 3 months) and to be used to sit on and invest in portfolios, like Children In Need and many other's do.
Instead of handing out cheques to good causes, the trust will buy the resources, example: Hospital need equipment - We contact the supplier, buy the equipment and give it to the hospital.
Obviously it's early days but do you think something like this could really take off and work?
I think the hardest part will be starting off, knocking on doors and convicing people to part with their money where the majority have lose faith in all of them. The difficult part is proving and showing that this one is different.
I really think though it will only take one, or two famous or sort of an influenced figure out there to credit the work the charity does for it to really take off.
What are people's thoughts on this? I personally think it's a fantastic idea, the public are outranged but from the record taking Children In Need took in the other day on BBC (They could lie about the figure mind you) it seems people still don't mind parting their cash to these existing rob merchants even though they are clearly set up for the financial gain and not for the intending purpose of their existence.
Kind Regards
Rick101 said:
What wage are you planning to take?
Absoloutely nothing. I will jugle part-time work and college.12 - 18 months if things change which means I need to put full-time hours in, hard to say obviously with the donations but a few hundred?
I am looking into any Gov backed funding for charities to start up Office space/low buisness rates and so on but info not very clear.
Website can be taken care of. I also have a good friend with contacts with prweb.com argubably one of the biggest PR companies in the world. £2K+ PR's, let's say I pay only a few hundred....
Many thanks on the responses, some really useful information taken on board and has taken me be back actually. I do not think now would be advisable to start one up until I've actually done some core volunteering work for an exsisting charity and learn the ropes before jumping into the deep blue sea.
Also see now as pointed, it's a bit pointless starting up a trust/charity without having any specific cause for fundraising/creating awarness.
Many thanks!
Also see now as pointed, it's a bit pointless starting up a trust/charity without having any specific cause for fundraising/creating awarness.
Many thanks!
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