Can I Trust Charities?

Edrof

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I just found out that a friend has landed a job at a popular UK charity. They are going to be doing a run-of-mill kind of job with occasional forays out to worldwide destinations. The thing is, they will be earning £190,000!

Personally, I wouldn't have even expected the guy right at the top of the heap to be earning that amount!

It's made me wonder just how much charity donations make it to the unhappy campers it's meant for.

Am I being a grumpy git?
 
What is his job description? You sure it's not a typo... £19k I can see (average sort of salary for charity job adverts) but not £190k...
 
£190,000 is not a typo!


I need to find out his full job description but all I know so far is in the OP. I will post when I find out more.
 
Once again, are you sure its 190k not 19k?
What job is it?

But no, I dont think all charities can be trusted. Much like South park...

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I don't get the whole "I work for a charity" thing. Working for a charity is something you do in your spare time for free.

If I give the charity my money I want it going to the cause. Not to paying a charity worker!
 
Most people higher up the food chain in charities are paid a fair wage :p
It's mildly annoying when they say to you its 'only £5 p month to save a child's life in x country', when they are wandering past you from the business lounge to first/club with BA courtesy of charity money
 
Forde said:
£190,000 is not a typo!


I need to find out his full job description but all I know so far is in the OP. I will post when I find out more.
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In which case i'd guess he is around 40-50 and has 20-30 years experience? Heading for a job managing a large part of the company or millions of pounds of fundraising...
 
It's the same people running large charities that used to be running large corporations who screwed up the economy, so imo you have to be a bit careful about trusting charities. A lot of them are just a gravy train for senior executives these days.
 
Westyfield2 said:
I don't get the whole "I work for a charity" thing. Working for a charity is something you do in your spare time for free.

If I give the charity my money I want it going to the cause. Not to paying a charity worker!
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Thing is, some jobs do really need to be paid. For example, CEO of a charity has a LOT of responsibility and is pretty much full time, so can't be done in people's spare time. In the charity I volunteer for, there are mostly volunteers but some paid workers. The wages for these come from different areas depending on what they're doing. For exmple full time support work on an ambulance for the NHS comes directly from the NHS, CEO will come from somewhere else. Money that is donated to us directly generally goes back into training or equipment upgrades though!
 
I've done some reasearch and there are limits on how much charities can take for administration. It's usually around 15-20% of funds I can't lay my hands on the sauce though.

Best charities are the local ones for footie teams or scouts or local hospice or hospital. If you fancy giving your cash away I'd nip down to your local shopping mall I'm sure there will be people there (collecting for free) for a local charity. The main ones canvassing around being paid to sign you up at 5 quid a month.
 
A lot of charities pay companies to do their fund raising for them. I.E. they pay a firm a set figure, then the firm sends their employees out fundraising which should raise a lot more than the initial figure.
 
WillyNelson said:
Which is not a run-of-the-mill kind of job!
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Exactly.

scorza said:
It's the same people running large charities that used to be running large corporations who screwed up the economy, so imo you have to be a bit careful about trusting charities. A lot of them are just a gravy train for senior executives these days.
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Personally I'd want the CEO of something like the British Red Cross or Cancer Research UK to be a professional businessman on a reasonable wage rather than someone who works part time from home.

You really expect people put in charge of multi million pound charities to do it part time from home or for average wage?:confused:
 
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