Yes, it's the season of goodwill but its getting ridiculous!
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Not so long ago there were charity collectors, they rattled a tin and you threw in a few coppers to absolve your conscience.
That wasn't enough, they started wanting you to pay £3 by monthly DD. Fair enough if it's a worthy cause ( I support the RNLI)
About a month ago I hear ( I think) Sir Ian McKellen asking for something like £23.87 for a charity!! Yes neatly £25 but it gets worse.
A TV advert tonight for a charity and they want, wait for it £120. Ok it's to help a blind kid in Africa but seriously £120 !!!! And the ad says when you give the UK government will match your donation.
Blimey, in principle giving a little is fine but this has gone too far I reckon.
Signed
Scrooge :-)
That wasn't enough, they started wanting you to pay £3 by monthly DD. Fair enough if it's a worthy cause ( I support the RNLI)
About a month ago I hear ( I think) Sir Ian McKellen asking for something like £23.87 for a charity!! Yes neatly £25 but it gets worse.
A TV advert tonight for a charity and they want, wait for it £120. Ok it's to help a blind kid in Africa but seriously £120 !!!! And the ad says when you give the UK government will match your donation.
Blimey, in principle giving a little is fine but this has gone too far I reckon.
Signed
Scrooge :-)
I have a charity collection bag full of various assorted charity collection bags that they keep shoving through my letterbox at the rate of at least two a week.
They usually state in the small print on these bags that about 0.1% of all monies raised by the East End Clothing Company or whatever goes to help the poor starving disabled blind kid pictured on the front. Presumably the balance goes to line the pockets of the swarthy undesirables running the racket. F
k 'em!
I think I'll turn all the bags into festive bunting for the street.
They usually state in the small print on these bags that about 0.1% of all monies raised by the East End Clothing Company or whatever goes to help the poor starving disabled blind kid pictured on the front. Presumably the balance goes to line the pockets of the swarthy undesirables running the racket. F
k 'em!I think I'll turn all the bags into festive bunting for the street.
glenrobbo said:
I have a charity collection bag full of various assorted charity collection bags that they keep shoving through my letterbox at the rate of at least two a week.
They usually state in the small print on these bags that about 0.1% of all monies raised by the East End Clothing Company or whatever goes to help the poor starving disabled blind kid pictured on the front. Presumably the balance goes to line the pockets of the swarthy undesirables running the racket. Fk 'em!
I think I'll turn all the bags into festive bunting for the street.
OMG. I thought they were sponsored bin liners. They usually state in the small print on these bags that about 0.1% of all monies raised by the East End Clothing Company or whatever goes to help the poor starving disabled blind kid pictured on the front. Presumably the balance goes to line the pockets of the swarthy undesirables running the racket. F
k 'em!I think I'll turn all the bags into festive bunting for the street.
Cheers,
Tony
Thankyou4calling said:
About a month ago I hear ( I think) Sir Ian McKellen asking for something like £23.87 for a charity!! Yes neatly £25 but it gets worse.
In fairness, it's for one person for a night including meals, a wash and new clothes. https://community.crisis.org.uk/reserve-a-place-ge...The £120 thing is bonkers. They should have asked for smaller donations that would add up to the total amount they are hoping to raise. But what do I know? I'm not a CEO of a charity being paid £500k a year.
Hoofy said:
glenrobbo said:
I feel obliged to point out that when I mentioned the poor donkeys, I was not referring to Hoofy.
Woah(!). Don't stop them sending me donations. I'm all for receiving free money.OK then: Who would like to adopt a lively cuddly unwanted Hoofy for Christmas? Send your donations of as many ££££'s as you can possibly muster to Glenrobbo's Holiday Homes for Unwanted Pets Pie Company Limited.
I promise to pass on about 0.01% of it to ensure Hoofy gets a nice bit of carrot to munch on.
Thankyou.
Is that OK?
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