We were down in South Wales this weekend and I went in to the local Tesco Extra where they were collecting items to donate to the homeless for Xmas - they had wine on offer - buy 6 or more get 25% off ... I bought about 18 bottles (stocking up for the holiday) saved over £20 - so went back in and bought items on their charity list - mainly the own brand stuff - Pasta, sauces, tinned fruit, tinned fish ... and a couple of small boxes of Toffifee they had on special offer (£1 for 12) - effectively half my saving - given that I would have bought the wine anyway it did make me feel quite good to 'put something back' ... every little helps In terms of broader charities - I make quite small but regular donations to charities that combat the diseases that have impacted my family - Marie Curie, British Heart and British lung ... When I was working in London during the summer I used to walk from City Thameslink through Holborn and down to Tottenham Court Rd each day ... loads of people sleeping rough and begging ... some telling experiences - my other half had told me not to give money but to either give food or offer to buy food if I felt sympathy for particular individuals ... was quite an education - the genuine homeless were sincerely grateful and jumped at the chance of a subway, McDonalds etc - the ones that didn't and got shirty and insisting "money, money" I told to do one ... presumably members of begging gangs ... one woman (possibly Albanian - really couldn't say for sure but from that part of the world) got quite irate and was able to demonstrate that she had learned quite a few English words that I would not have expected
I’m not so sure about that. Sometimes folk are not aware of how bad other’s or animal situations have got so a reminder is not always a bad thing.
There's a reminder and then there's people who do charitable work and then go around telling everybody about it. That's just feeding their ego, it's all about them.
I have to say I increasingly don't give to charities. Which is not the norm for me Over the years I've found out stuff about charities that has made me think majority are a scam
My advice would be to see with your own eyes who really need the help. **** big charities, their CEO's make a fortune. You'll be lucky if 10p of your pound makes it to the actual cause you're donating to.
There’s people who glorify it, but also the glorification of it makes the charity more money, such as fundraising balls. The more you brag about them the more exposure they get, especially if people are bidding on luxury/exclusive raffle items. People who give £50 to good causes then put it on Facebook are just ****s.
10p would be a bonus with some. It's as little as 2p from the pound. Many run in debt as they pay sales people more than what those people manage to gather I was part of a charity group, my Mrs basically was the biggest fund raiser for them. It's a kids charity and we used to get the local schools etc to do days and events and give ALL the money to the charity We git an email, by accident, from the CO telling people not to book 3 star accomodation for the AGM coz they had "plenty of money so make it 5 star". It went on to mention champagne dinners etc Just reminiscing is making me angry ****ing ****s
Agreed - you do here horror stories about people are making money out of charity. Why I like the idea of giving a little in person.
Just an anecdote A friend of mine has projects in rwanda etc and he was telling me that he gave a kid a note (as in money) and the kid threw it away My friend was taken aback so asked the kid why he had thrown away the money he had given him. The kid was confused and asked what money Basically these kids are so poor they hadnt seen paper money only coins
Look at the back of charity christmas cards in supermarkets and garden centres, etc. Some of them give less than 10p in the pound to charity.
That's what I'm getting at. The pricks who buy a homeless person a ****ing sausage roll and then take a photo of them to upload to social media with a big paragraph about how they spent time with them and listened to their story etc.
Yeah, its shocking. Every morning I come into work now, I see big charities collecting money in the Market square and down the bottom of Durham on the bridge. It's literally every ****ing day. There's homeless people sleeping in shop doorways being ignored, why don't the charity hand them the days takings
Not if you met her in a pub and 'she' propositioned you to go outside with her and sample her cherry pie ... that's just a case of way too much alcohol and very, very, poor judgement indeed ...
If I meet an attractive homeless young woman I will often allow her to give me a BJ so that she feels that she has really earned the money ... DISCLAIMER: Not really serious - for those that are easily offended - sometimes I will reluctantly agree to a hand job instead
