pslewis

Here's some big name charities and the pence out of every pound they spend on their charitable objectives.

Charity
Amount (per £1)

British Heart Foundation
83p

NSPCC
75p

British Red Cross
85p

UNICEF
75p

Action Aid
73p

Cancer Research
80p

Save the Children
85p

Barnardos
82p

Railway Children
76p

Interseting reading ....

PaulC72

TBH I am suprised they are that high, most of these charities pay some high salaries to top people for the image and that has to come from somewhere.

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I think that is pretty impressive.

Wonder what Oxfam is? I once read they are one of the worst at this.

Chop

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iTrader: (7)

What about those people who come round our local & collect for charity in those little tins? Great cause although they're always p*ssing themselves with laughter when they leave

TX.

Chip

Its nice to see such a high percentage going to the charities. All to often these days you hear of some charities where very little actually goes to the good cause that it was meant for.

Chip

Leslie

Very good point Dave, but I wonder how we can find them all out.

Glad to see such good percentages going to charities in Pete's list. There must be a lot of good being done anyway.

Les

GC8WRX

i want to know how much of the amount you might sponsor goes into the pocket of the harrassing ***** who stand in the high street asking for a fiver a month via direct debit!


they are on commission cos i asked a fit girly once!


Its almost blackmail and should be banned!



I should be able to walk doen my own high street with out scruffy students trying to guilt me into giving money away!

SJ_Skyline

Part of the reason why I stopped running for charities, combined with at least 3 of the charities Pete mentions living off account (i.e. having so much that they fund their activities from interest payments from their investments - my source used to manage one of the aboves accounts).

That said, I'll be "Santa Dashing" in aid of my local cancer hospice.

tony de wonderful

I only give money to 'tangible' charities i.e when I see some person collecting who looks like an old dear or someone else similarly trustworthy etc. Then I'll put a couple of quid in.

Also like the lifeboats.

Totally despise the charities who use those street mugger *******.

David Lock

The lottery collect a huge sum allegedly much going to good causes. I think the tickets should have an extra box with say half a dozen choices and you tick the one that you support. Should be easy enough for their laptop to sort out. dl

boxst

I am surprised it is that high. I worked for two charities years ago as an IT trainer (they bought our software) and they were shockingly wasteful.

Someone above mentions that they pay well, my experience was that they didn't pay that well but hired several people to do a simple job and all of those people did the job very badly. Which means they would then hire an incompetent manager to look after them.

It put me off giving any money to charity at all.

Steve

dpb

Seems an unlikely high percentage to me - id be more than happy if it were true.

The top charity bosses are of course very well off

Leslie

As I understand it, those collecting for charity are not allowed to harass the public by trying to press their case. They are not even allowed to rattle the collecting boxes.

I would have thought that anyone who was harassing the public was not to be trusted anyway.

Never heard of charity collectors being paid before. Mrs Leslie is a poppy seller and she would not accept any money for her efforts let alone having had anything offered to her.

Les