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To my cynical eye, too many charities are more akin to woke businesses than charities. It's a pity because we've donated to charities and also raised money for them in the past, such as standing outside supermarkets with collecting tins. We wouldn't do it now.
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Agreed. The fact that, say, RNLI give more money for swimming lessons in Africa than they do to lifeboats and crews in the UK was my special wake-up call
It is not only sad the way charities have developed into businesses with all the revolving door CEOs that go with it on silly salaries, but it goes further than just not giving to all the woke ones.
We like many have left money in our will to charity, the wills have been changed three times in recent years as one after another of those charities has gone woke, there are now none left, even the last local one became 'assisted' by government funds and got itself a CEO on a salary yet managed with volunteers very successfully before, so no more charities.
I'm in the same boat as wiggia, the RNLI was definitely on my list until they started sacking volunteer lifeboatmen over saucy tea mugs. The final straw being the swimming lessons. Some years ago I stumbled on the Fake Charities site, this started my taking a closer look at the way charities were run. Help the Aged and another similar organisation merged some years ago, they stopped doing what it said on the tin and became insurance brokers. They do appear to be a way of employing otherwise unemployable graduates. I wonder how much so called foreign aid is apprehended by these charities before it gets to where its intended.
Now I hear that our last redoubt, the good old Sally Annie, is going woke. So no chance of a cuddly toy Swingle Singer for Christmas.
A few years ago I had a friend who actually started a charity - a home and school for disabled children in India. She raised money here in the UK and sent it to a Catholic priest who ran the show. There were virtually no overheads, and so I thought this was a good charity to support. Disabled kids in India, right? Life doesn't get a lot tougher on this planet. I paid a modest amount by standing order - but that goes a long way in India - and was able to salve my conscience and fend off requests that I donate to some bloated bureaucracy.
Then came the news that the Indian priest had been siphoning off most of the money and spending it on hookers.
While cancelling my standing order I was nevertheless able to console myself with the thought that Indian whores probably needed my money more than the CEOs of major Charities...
First it was the RNLI, then it was The Salvation Army, then ...
And yet not so long ago we donated to charities by deed of covenant, we always put money in the collection boxes, my wife did door-to-door collections for a couple of national charities. No longer: not a penny for national charities, or for educational institutions.
Maybe we'll give to the sort of local charity where we might hear pretty quickly if they've become too woke.
I suppose it's a consequence of a generation of otherwise unemployable university graduates seizing control. Well, bugger 'em.
I always check the salaries of charity directors before giving. >£100k pa? No chance!
I pay taxes.
Our betters ensure that the charridees get plenty from that
So I have no choice.
However I would buy a saucy mug from any charity running an alternative sea rescue service.
Graeme - yes, the fall of the RNLI was certainly a wake-up call.
Wiggia - I'm surprised they manage to attract volunteers, but if our local charity shops are a guide, they still do.
Andy - it's a pity about the Sally Army, I hoped they would resist it.
Sam - you are probably right, Indian whores probably did need your money more than charity CEOs. They may well have been supporting family members.
dearieme - yes, bugger 'em. It's a pity though, I feel mildly deprived by it. On a positive note, all spare money goes to the family.
Ed - that's my line in the sand. Plus being woke.
Doonhamer - so would I. It would be good to see.
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