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Old thread but IMO it's got relevant again...

We got the woman with the unpronounceable name who dresses like a hanging basket allegedly dishing money out to the wrong people....we got a charity which is spending its tin rattled collection money intent on taking the NHS to court unless it gets its own way (does anyone expect that when they put money in a tin it will be used for this and not to ease suffering????)..we have a disabled woman who has sold poppies for years, raised thousands and is pilloried, in public, by jobsworths because she carries a 'float' where she offers to give change to people who only have notes in their pocket.

Don't even get me started on the RSPCA and how much of your cash goes in admin/management costs, or how some charities are making so much money that they give their staff bonuses year on year, pour millions into websites, social media, tv adverts and flyers because they are not allowed to profit, yet still rattle their tins outside supermarkets asking for more...

Tonight it's the annual tug at your heartstrings night, where a TV station paid for by you, is sponsored by various companies getting free advertising (on a supposed advert free channel), where you are asked yet again to put your hands in your pocket by performers, many of whom have tax havens/loopholes/clever accounting or are unashamedly plugging their latest ventures..

Yep...I'm sick to death with charities too..

And the problem is...some charities actually need to be supported, and these guys don't get a look in because of the 'corporate' charities (case in point,,as I write this the Adchoice link at the top of my page is the WWF 'adopt a tiger for christmas for £3 a month')