UK Charities

It'll make me even more angry. :p

I get very crabby about charities, the amount of advertising on Freeview for charities is insane! Personally, I would like charity and gambling adverts banned, or restricted to x amount per day.

Watch ITV3, the channel which targets older demographic, its very sinister and undoubtedly preying on older audiences - if you donated to each you would be bankrupt within a day. Also donations are creeping up and some asking £30? Crikey, I thought you donated what you wanted?

Charities are a very personal thing, if you want to donate; it should be of your own volition without being constantly made to feel guilty. You don't need it rammed down your throat every 8 minutes.
 
LCG-xyz said:
Which UK charities spend the most on the actual causes they represent and not on 'administration'?
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I doubt they’d have much left over after they paid the big cheeses salary.

Average pay for chief executives at the biggest charities has risen by £15,000 since the data was last analysed in 2019.

Research into pay at the UK’s largest 100 charities by income, to be published in Civil Society Media's Charity Finance magazine next week, shows that the median chief executive salary is £170,000.

This is up 9% compared with 2019, when the average chief executive salary at the largest charities was £155,000. In 2017 the average salary was £150,000.
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www.civilsociety.co.uk

Average pay for bosses at biggest charities rises to £170,000

www.civilsociety.co.uk www.civilsociety.co.uk
 
Ninco! said:
It'll make me even more angry. :p

I get very crabby about charities, the amount of advertising on Freeview for charities is insane! Personally, I would like charity and gambling adverts banned, or restricted to x amount per day.

Watch ITV3, the channel which targets older demographic, its very sinister and undoubtedly preying on older audiences - if you donated to each you would be bankrupt within a day. Also donations are creeping up and some asking £30? Crikey, I thought you donated what you wanted?

Charities are a very personal thing, if you want to donate; it should be of your own volition without being constantly made to feel guilty. You don't need it rammed down your throat every 8 minutes.
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It angers me that they play the kids starving/dying of thirst ones at teatime and on kid's TV channels no less.

I find myself screaming internally when they say 'mtumbe walks 10 miles to get dirty water'

Mtumbe lives in a mud hut, stop being stupid and move the damn hut.


200sols said:
People still watch TV with adverts?
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My kids watch the kids channels so yeah.
 
Resident said:
I find myself screaming internally when they say 'mtumbe walks 10 miles to get dirty water'

Mtumbe lives in a mud hut, stop being stupid and move the damn hut.
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This. I’ve yet to find someone who has also said this. Can we be friends? I take charitable donations for the privilege.
 
I know if you buy Christmas cards from a charity shop, a better chunk of money goes to charity over cards you get in supermarkets and other shops - charities are lucky to get a few pence
 
Resident said:
It angers me that they play the kids starving/dying of thirst ones at teatime and on kid's TV channels no less.

I find myself screaming internally when they say 'mtumbe walks 10 miles to get dirty water'

Mtumbe lives in a mud hut, stop being stupid and move the damn hut.




My kids watch the kids channels so yeah.
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Mtumbe watches Charity X install a well and pump every other year. 30 seconds after Charity X’s team leave the village, the local warlord and his boys rock up to strip the new well of its pump and pipe work whilst waving AK-47s at the villagers.

Mtumbe has come to realise that having an AK-47 means that you can have as many wells as you want.
 
I think it was Anne Widdecomb on some game show, want to say The Chase, the celebrity version, they all donate their winnings to charity. She pipes up and says her charity was Donkeys in Bethlehem.

What a ****
 
Terminal_Boy said:
Mtumbe watches Charity X install a well and pump every other year. 30 seconds after Charity X’s team leave the village, the local warlord and his boys rock up to strip the new well of its pump and pipe work whilst waving AK-47s at the villagers.

Mtumbe has come to realise that having an AK-47 means that you can have as many wells as you want.
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Mtumbe then survives long enough to have multiple children of his own, who also live in a mud hut and have to walk 10 miles a day for dirty water, thus perpetuating and exponentially increasing the amount of suffering.

Life tip: if you don't want your children to grow up having to walk 10 miles to get dirty water, don't have children if you live in the middle of a desert 10 miles from the nearest water!

To the OP, best bet is to find a local charity to support which is actually run by the people on the ground rather than some executive CEO who would probably struggle to tell you what they even do!

We have a local cat rescue charity (basically a guy on his own who has built a cattery in his back garden) and the local scout group who we donate to when we can, in both cases I know the money is going directly to the cause rather than buying someone a new yacht.
 
Ninco! said:
It'll make me even more angry. :p

I get very crabby about charities, the amount of advertising on Freeview for charities is insane! Personally, I would like charity and gambling adverts banned, or restricted to x amount per day.

Watch ITV3, the channel which targets older demographic, its very sinister and undoubtedly preying on older audiences - if you donated to each you would be bankrupt within a day. Also donations are creeping up and some asking £30? Crikey, I thought you donated what you wanted?

Charities are a very personal thing, if you want to donate; it should be of your own volition without being constantly made to feel guilty. You don't need it rammed down your throat every 8 minutes.
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I stopped donating years ago when a chugger for a well known charity (can't remember which) stopped me in the street and asked for a donation. I offered to donate a one off amount right then and they refused it, saying they could only accept me setting up a monthly direct debit. Cheeky buggers. No wonder they got the chugger nick name.
 
Hades said:
I stopped donating years ago when a chugger for a well known charity (can't remember which) stopped me in the street and asked for a donation. I offered to donate a one off amount right then and they refused it, saying they could only accept me setting up a monthly direct debit. Cheeky buggers. No wonder they got the chugger nick name.
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Personally I will never ever donate to a charity if approached, ever. Some of the ads doing stuff like exploiting children in pain to manipulate emotions, etc. should be banned and tells you everything you need to know about those charities if that is their approach.

I donate regularly to a local charity which I know most of the money goes to where it is actually needed and also have Amazon Smile setup to donate to a local charity as well. Also donate to friends causes, etc. where they are directly involved with or the people operating the charity/cause.

Back in the early 2000s I worked for a company who did IT for various charities - it was an interesting experience - so many charities I definitely wouldn't donate to after seeing a bit from the inside of how they are run and use their money and also seeing first hand experience the difference a good director, etc. can make even when that means paying them an industry competitive salary.
 
Is giving money to beggars on the street called charity?
I was in a local supermarket store a few days ago. A beggar approached a woman and asked if she could give money or food. The woman agreed to purchase food for the beggar.
The young female beggar selected some expensive food items.
Then suddenly, another beggar also approached the woman and asked for food too.
 
Recorded something on TV and skipped the ads. Every single ad was for a charity. If you donate each of the charities advertised for "just £x a month" - you will be paying about £150 a month.

Glad chuggers are getting few and far between.
 
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