Does anyone donate £2 a month to charity?

I sponsor a child and also give to Save the Children. Would also give to Medicine Sans Frontieres, i'm skeptical of a lot of charities but I like these.
 
pfft charities really offend me how now they almost all want direct debit! WHAT! some of them even come around your house trying to push it onto you i can deal with it but for an old person it must be awful just the other month i had some teenager from the red cross trying to bully me lol.

i said sure leave the form with me and i will fill it in and send it off he then starts trying to tell me how to fill it in before attempting to get the info out of me so he can fill it in for me :mad:
i tell him straight leave it with me or get lost but not so polite, he says sorry we have to hand the forms in! WTF! are these people on commision?
 
arknor said:
pfft charities really offend me how now they almost all want direct debit! WHAT! some of them even come around your house trying to push it onto you i can deal with it but for an old person it must be awful just the other month i had some teenager from the red cross trying to bully me lol.

i said sure leave the form with me and i will fill it in and send it off he then starts trying to tell me how to fill it in before attempting to get the info out of me so he can fill it in for me :mad:
i tell him straight leave it with me or get lost but not so polite, he says sorry we have to hand the forms in! WTF! are these people on commision?
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A lot of the people signing people up are on commission.
 
Interesting the amount of people giving money to dogs, rather than cancer research for example. Still, who am I to judge? I give nothing to charity.
 
Direct debits of £5 a month each to NSPCC, Cancer Research, MSF, Oxfam, Water Aid and Unicef.
 
Most money given to charities now goes on advertising and administration. If I wanted to pay for admin I'd hire a secretary.

It is the government's job to care for its people and thus organisations like the RNLI, nspcc and rspca should be wholly funded through taxation saving them millions each year in running events to attract donations and advertising.
 
fini said:
Most money given to charities now goes on advertising and administration. If I wanted to pay for admin I'd hire a secretary.

It is the government's job to care for its people and thus organisations like the RNLI, nspcc and rspca should be wholly funded through taxation saving them millions each year in running events to attract donations and advertising.
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but then some people would lose these nice houses and flash cars, im sure they are quite attached to there multi-million pound headquarters aswell :rolleyes:
 
dont give money to charity at all, doubt i ever will. Though i help out at the local animal rescue centre once a week and coach rugby and football to kids each week all for free
 
Over Clocker said:
...same to the RSPCA each month.
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rodo said:
O...probably RSPCA too since I have some kittens from a rescue centre and know how hard they suffer to fund themselves.
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I'll be cold in my grave before I'd donate to the RSPCA. I took a sick and dying cat to them and they turned me away saying: "Take it to a vet"

I wrote a thread about it here and I'll never forgive them.

big_white_dog84 said:
For example I think Mountain Rescue and the RNLI should be fully funded by hillwalkers and watersports enthusiasts / sailers rather than by donations from the general public.
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I support Mountain Rescue. You do know that they and the RNLI rescue more clueless people such as people climbing mountains in trainers and jeans and idiots in dinhys with beer than experienced enthusiasts?
 
I stopped giving money to charities once I read the complete Financial review for the Red Cross.

It annoyed me how little of the money actually gets to where it's supposed too, so I now give my services to the people that need them when I have the time.

At least that way, I know it's not getting wasted on someone else that doesn't need it.
 
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