Charities cold calling for increased donations

It started with a fiver a month, then they wanted a tenner - agreed on £7. Then they wanted £20 a month so I cancelled everything, and told the guy on the phone exactly how much money went to "charity" and how much went to administration - disgusting. He was pretty surprised (or pretended to be), and I suggested that the amount actually going to good causes was far too much, and they should spend more on call centres.
He hung up.
 
Teledude said:
Thoughts?

We give a tenner a month to battersea dogs home and they have just cold called me asking me to double my donation?!

Not chuffed I must say and I know others who will cancel because of this.

Where would you sit on this matter OcUK?
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If someone asks me for more then they get nothing. I'd cancel immediately.

I'll never donate though. Would rather go physically volunteer overseas building houses or something.

 
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doofski said:
RSPCA did it to me and i cancelled my direct debit with them.
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The charity didn't contact you.
More than likely they passed your details to a company they employ to chase people to get more money out of them.

Same with all the chaps who,call at your door, they get paid directly for each person they sign up, BY THE CHARITY, when I looked into it, it was over half a years subscriptions was wasted on being spend on the recruiting company who then ring you back after 12-18 months and ask the same stuff, can you give more, and if that fails, ask you to increase by a smaller amount.

It is a hideous way to raise money, those raising it are not linked to the charity or their goals.
I cancelld four charitable donations due to these calls, each time writing to the charity to say why.

I doubt I will give in any such manner again as a result of this behaviour.
Might be sucessful for them overall, but convinces some to never pledge again.
 
if they ask for me to increase my donation i immediately cancel. that was i can feel like a decent guy who gives to charity, but no longer does because of the charity looking to raise more donations from a simple phone call that would have been fine to say sorry no i don't want to increase me donation amount per month.

no guilt for me but the great feeling knowing i'm a charity giver that doesn't do it because of them being cold heartless money grabbing *******s looking to raise money for the hungry/dying/whatever :)
 
I hate the ones that come to your house and ask for donations, we had two in one day this week. My mum said she didn't understand the first one and about 6 hours later a second one turned up who asked if my parents were in. He must have thought that I wasn't old enough to make donations at the age of 20.
 
i cancelled my donations to nspcc when they started doing it to me

would rather have seen the money going to helping children rather than hiring people to sit on a phone all day calling people and begging for more money...

completely put me off charities.
 
The people who come up with these ideas must be retarded

I had a similar experience , sending me letters asking for more money then
a phone call , I just cancelled , aholes
 
I made a donation to RSPCA and they called to say thanks then wanted me to set up a direct debit. I said no at the time because I'd just set up a donation for cancer research. The lady kept saying oh ok well how about this much and I'd explain I can't right now "ok how about this much" I'd explain and again I'd get " oh ok well thank you and if I could just tell you how the money goes to use...(5mins later) so could you donate this much?!"

I was tempted to get rude with her but I didn't. My mum gets calls from Cancer Research asking to increase, even before my dad died she said no and now they call and she says "no I'm sorry I can't my husband recently died of cancer and money's already tight" they apologise and then say "ok how about increasing it to this much" it got to the point where my mum said "look if you're not happy with the amount I'm currently giving then I'll stop it altogether" and then they panic and stop pestering her until the next time.

If I get it again I'm not going to bite my tongue.im happy to help charities but not if they continue to bully me/my mum for more. The issue with cancer isn't just needing funds for research etc one big problem they also need to sort is the speed in which people get treatment after being diagnosed. My dad had to wait 8 months. By that point it was too late.
 
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I Used to donate to Friends of the Earth on a direct debit. I cancelled for this very reason. They where going through a rain forest in paper every other month pestering me for more money.
 
I would love to know how much of the donation actually ends up going towards the cause these days. Big charities are just big businesses now.

One thing I would ask the person calling, is how much they give to charity.
 
I had a cold call, they asked if I wanted to hear a sob story, i said ok but I'm not giving money

Girl told said sob story, put it on speaker phone and cooked away, at the end of she asked for monies. I said no. She got very rude.

Cold calling as a charity is OK in my book, long as it isn't repeated.
Them getting rude isnt
Them calling if you already give to them? I would cancel too tbh. They must make a net profit tho. Otherwise they wouldn't
 
daz said:
I would love to know how much of the donation actually ends up going towards the cause these days. Big charities are just big businesses now.
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All charities have to publish an annual report detailing their expenditure, just have a look for it on their website.

Most charities expend 70-80% towards their cause.
 
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