Charities

The Fear

The Fear

A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
Great site this, enter the charity you are thinking of donating to, they then send you a report and you get to see how many pence in the pound they donate to the cause.

I think the charity commission recommend £0.85

I was gutted to see Acorns was around £0.63 (a few big salaries)

http://www.charitychoice.co.uk/charities

Enter the charity, click, then 'send report'
 
Long story ,but my father owes me £200 to Acorns when he gets back from holiday tomorrow.I too am gutted and he would be absolutely furious,but I`m not going to tell him.
£74 of his sponsorship money NOT going to the kids.
 
This is the sort of report you get.

One I did the other week had 93p to the cause.

I'm gutted about Acorns, if you look on the charity commission site there are some very high salaries there, the Chairman is on over £100 000

Feck, it is 61p in the pound:

http://choice.charityfinancials.com/700859/1028/
 
I know of a person who works (in senior role) for oxfam in Sri Lanka is on a package of £200k plus
 
I don't really have a problem with these big salaries - these are huge (multinational in some cases) businesses and need to be ran as such. It's a full time job that requires the best possible candidates and that surely requires a salary competetive with equivalent roles in non-charity organisations?
 
Not really McGrath, not when the same people take all the standing ovations.

It should actually be totally declared and up front, you shouldn't have to go around looking at sites like the above and the charity commission one.

If they were giving over 90p (or as charity commission indicates in their best practice, 85p) to the £ then fine, whatever, but 61p? The other I looked at today (a brain tumour charity 73p) they are doing something wrong to have such high expenses and love 'to the cause' %

There are an awful lot of people in the corporate world not on salaries as high as some of these but as someone I know who works in the charity industry said, there is a very nice living to be made within the charity filed for some (some) at the top.

I don't think they should be on paupers wages either McGrath, so do take your point, but certainly none over what the Prime Minister gets (and many are)
 
By definition charities are not businesses. Something charities should remember.
 
Will never give another penny to charities after a number of the big ones took my late mother for literally thousands, when it was pretty bloody obvious that she was old and suffering from dementia.
 
Oh mate, sorry to hear that, saw a programme on these sharp practices, terrible stuff.
 
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