Why you should question all charities before giving
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The Great British rake-off... what really happens to the billions YOU donate to charity: Fat cat pay, waste and hidden agendas
More than 195,289 charities in UK raising close to £80billion a year
Many have become 'hungry monsters' using money to feed own ambitions
David Craig's new book exposes the truth about Britain’s charity industry
Recent inquiry found there are too many charities to keep track of activities
You could donate to the £16.3 million- a-year Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the £13.4 million Breast Cancer Care or the £10.6 million Breast Cancer Campaign… and the list goes on. This duplication is hugely expensive.
For example, all charities with an income over £25,000 have to file independently-audited accounts with the Charity Commission at a cumulative cost of £252 million in accountancy fees alone. Some people are beginning to understand this.
The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, Prostate Action and Prostate Cancer UK laudably decided to merge, with the result that money spent on charitable causes and scientific grants doubled from £8.2 million to £16.5 million, largely due to significant savings in management costs.
The figures are astonishing. There are more than 195,289 registered charities in the UK that raise and spend close to £80 billion a year. Together, they employ more than a million staff – more than our car, aerospace and chemical sectors – and make 13 billion ‘asks’ for money every year, the equivalent of 200 for each of us in the UK.
But many charities have become hungry monsters, needing ever more of our money to feed their own ambitions. And while registered charities claim that almost 90p in every pound donated is spent on ‘charitable activities’, many spend at least half their income on management, strategy development, campaigning and fundraising – not what most of us would consider ‘good causes’.
The six biggest anti-poverty charities have 142 staff being paid £60,000 a year or more and 17 with salaries of more than £100,000. In all, about 16,000 charity staff are paid more than £60,000 a year and perhaps 3,000 are getting more than £100,000.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835947/Th...
More than 195,289 charities in UK raising close to £80billion a year
Many have become 'hungry monsters' using money to feed own ambitions
David Craig's new book exposes the truth about Britain’s charity industry
Recent inquiry found there are too many charities to keep track of activities
You could donate to the £16.3 million- a-year Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the £13.4 million Breast Cancer Care or the £10.6 million Breast Cancer Campaign… and the list goes on. This duplication is hugely expensive.
For example, all charities with an income over £25,000 have to file independently-audited accounts with the Charity Commission at a cumulative cost of £252 million in accountancy fees alone. Some people are beginning to understand this.
The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, Prostate Action and Prostate Cancer UK laudably decided to merge, with the result that money spent on charitable causes and scientific grants doubled from £8.2 million to £16.5 million, largely due to significant savings in management costs.
The figures are astonishing. There are more than 195,289 registered charities in the UK that raise and spend close to £80 billion a year. Together, they employ more than a million staff – more than our car, aerospace and chemical sectors – and make 13 billion ‘asks’ for money every year, the equivalent of 200 for each of us in the UK.
But many charities have become hungry monsters, needing ever more of our money to feed their own ambitions. And while registered charities claim that almost 90p in every pound donated is spent on ‘charitable activities’, many spend at least half their income on management, strategy development, campaigning and fundraising – not what most of us would consider ‘good causes’.
The six biggest anti-poverty charities have 142 staff being paid £60,000 a year or more and 17 with salaries of more than £100,000. In all, about 16,000 charity staff are paid more than £60,000 a year and perhaps 3,000 are getting more than £100,000.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835947/Th...
I only have a problem with waste and duplication.
I do really get angry when a so called celebrity exhorts me to give.
First I think, are they getting paid, and how much is the advert costing to screen. Then I think, you are worth an awful lot more than me and most people watching this. If you think its such a good idea, why not just give a big donation yourself.
I do really get angry when a so called celebrity exhorts me to give.
First I think, are they getting paid, and how much is the advert costing to screen. Then I think, you are worth an awful lot more than me and most people watching this. If you think its such a good idea, why not just give a big donation yourself.
Here is celeb to my liking: giving her own money rather than exhorting us to give ours:
Lily Allen: Band Aid is smug and I’d rather donate actual money
Lily Allen has become the latest artist to criticise the Band Aid single in aid of the Ebola crisis, revealing that she refused to appear on it because she considered it smug and preferred to donate “actual money”.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/23/lily-...
Lily Allen: Band Aid is smug and I’d rather donate actual money
Lily Allen has become the latest artist to criticise the Band Aid single in aid of the Ebola crisis, revealing that she refused to appear on it because she considered it smug and preferred to donate “actual money”.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/23/lily-...
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