I'm out of all fundraising on this board now. It's been a farce from start to finish. Sitting on information which disgusts me 'to make life easier' for others. Giving money to people who'll use it against us. ****ing load of a ****e.
****ing hell this still rumbling on. People donated money 6 months ago to help women and children who needed it. If anything else is done now it goes against the original premise of the donation and is absolutely bang out of order. I wouldn't have even considered a donation if I thought it was going to be used to try and get some publicity and show people that "not all Sunderland fans are bad". You can't change the rules just because you decide you don't like the charity, after asking people to donate to it. The whole thing has become an absolute farce.
Unless I've missed something in the month that's gone since it was last brought up then yeah seems as if it's still rumbling on. @Sidthemackem @Gordon Armstrong
I presented the cheque outside The Stadium gates 3 weeks ago, and am still awaiting it being shown in The Echo I didn't want to mention it on here until I could upload the fotie and short story, but now that the question's been asked . . . . . So there it is, and I'll still upload it if it's ever published WWIN were very appreciative and The Echo have disappointed me but I'm still glad that we donated to this cause
Get ****ed then. Nobody forced you donate, The vote went up for everybody and everybody discussed it AFTER THE CHARITY MOVED THE GOAL POSTS BY USING A RAPED SCHOOL GIRL AND THE MEDIA TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THEMSELVES, your fault if you didn't vote. I won't donate on here again either, but the kids have got it now that's all that matters. Well it's all that matters to decent people.
I did vote, and was overwhelmingly outnumbered. I don't care. It's the poorest of poor form to ask someone to donate and then change what they are donating for. Lowest of the low. The charity didn't move the goalposts at all, the charity is still the charity. I'm glad they got the money, that's all. I've learned my lesson though.
My too, I won't donate again neither. Kids getting the money is the only good thing to come out of this. That charity ****ing disgusts me for their conduct.
To be honest I didn't care after realising the Xmas deadline was missed, I'm sure they got good use out of the cash but my intention was to try and change some poor ****ers Xmas. I learned that it should have been planned much earlier but nobody should be ashamed of how it's panned out, **** happens, we are a footy forum not a registered charity. We move on.
Don't get me wrong, I agree on both counts. The main thing is the money has been received, great. And I think the charity's conduct was poor over the Adam Johnson affair. But I also think it is morally unacceptable that I donated to a cause and then my money was used differently to how it was intended when donated. Hopefully the Echo never run the story and this can be put to bed.
Please don't argue about this . . . . we've done a good deed (everybody who donated, irrespective of allegiance or this lass saying something that we don't agree with) and we should be proud of it, no matter what Edit : your money (after the well documented delay) went to it's intended recipient, J.C.
Fair dos, but the only people putting doubt on how your money is being used is the Charity. Will it supplement the pay role for their Press Officer who they use to act on opportunist smear campaigns which spites both their town club who are raising money for them and at the expense of a raped young women. Our donation may never see the cause we want. What's more we'll never know and that makes my skin crawl. Back to personal donations for me.
