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Are charities a business?
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Old 21-12-2015, 20:27   #31
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Re: Are charities a business?

my good lady asked me "what about the begging letters" my reply was "just keep sending them out"
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Re: Are charities a business?

you should add "are some businesses"

having run a charity that cost me money i can certainly say it wasn't though every one who we wanted grants off ( excluding children in need and comic relief ) wanted us to run more as a business, where as we were more concerned that the kids had a good time and safe place to learn and play.

what i would say is if you think a charity is making money for the people running it look at their accounts they are available if they are a charity

i saw a lot complaining about children in need and their reserves personally i would say they need bigger reserves than they currently have after a quick run through their accounts.

its easy to criticise but most of the people who do the hard work for charities do so at their own expense or for very little rumination.

if you can do better have a go and volunteer as someone who ran one for nearly ten years it is well worth it ( as long as the wife doesn't find how much you spent on it any way lol )
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Old 21-12-2015, 22:38   #33
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Re: Are charities a business?

This is always going to be a contentiuos subject.

Consider a local Hospice, run as a charity that must spend the majority of donations on running costs etc. Yes they do get a certain amount form Government but the rest must be raised locally.

That is just 1 example of 1 charity where wages and running costs are neccessarily where the money is spent.

Notwithstanding the above I do think a lot of the National charities are run as a business where it would appear more is spent on administration than on where it is supposed to go.

I only support local community charities now. That's money well spent.
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Old 31-03-2016, 00:50   #34
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Re: Are charities a business?

Might be Irish but I agree with the sentiments

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Old 30-06-2016, 22:57   #35
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Re: Are charities a business?

Public trust reaches an all time low. The reason, the media, not the foul little practices the media are reporting

http://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/28/.../#.V3WGSXRwbqB
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Old 10-07-2016, 04:49   #36
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Re: Are charities a business?

Another example of the poxy rspca thinking they're above the law

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ermission.html
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Old 10-07-2016, 05:16   #37
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Re: Are charities a business?

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Another example of the poxy rspca thinking they're above the law

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ermission.html
"An RSPCA spokesman said: ‘The court ordered the RSPCA to provide information about the whereabouts of the two remaining cats. This is being done.’

Not good enough, they should be returned.
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Old 10-07-2016, 06:09   #38
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"An RSPCA spokesman said: ‘The court ordered the RSPCA to provide information about the whereabouts of the two remaining cats. This is being done.’

Not good enough, they should be returned.
Returned alive if possible to please
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Re: Are charities a business?

i am not a fan of the RSPCA ( should be spaying for free and not putting well animals down ) but in this case I think they may be get the wrong end of the stick.

the sister handed them over and the RSPCA is not a pet sitting service . Did the lady have a plan in place for her pets to be looked after if she was ill it doesnt seem so . We as a family have things in place for looking after our pets and those of other family members just as we have for our kids. With out that I would rather the RSPCA found a place for them rather than the possibility of them being in kennels for months If there was no Family or friends to do it.
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i am not a fan of the RSPCA ( should be spaying for free and not putting well animals down ) but in this case I think they may be get the wrong end of the stick.

the sister handed them over and the RSPCA is not a pet sitting service . Did the lady have a plan in place for her pets to be looked after if she was ill it doesnt seem so . We as a family have things in place for looking after our pets and those of other family members just as we have for our kids. With out that I would rather the RSPCA found a place for them rather than the possibility of them being in kennels for months If there was no Family or friends to do it.
Would you rather the rspca killed them if they couldn't find a place. Imo they're the worst charity around, there's only two I refused to work for out of all of them, rspca and rnib
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Old 12-07-2016, 18:41   #41
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Re: Are charities a business?

that is a loaded question but i will try my best to answer as i said i think they should be spaying animals for free ( they get a lot of money ) and i don't agree with putting healthy animals down ( wouldn't be as many if they spayed more )

However I wouldn't want my animals kept at a kennels indefinitely either i have seen ones after a year they are not happy our last three cats from them were ones who had been in the longest at the center near us.

Also though we have spent thousands over all on our animals on operations for various conditions we only did so if the vet said it was likely to give them a good chance at a good recovery to be active and happy i wouldn't want them saved just because you could.

But as i said we have in place though family and friends who would look after ours and vice versa for family animals, If this lady was so worried she should have had this too which might have been her sister and it was her sister who asked the RSPCA to help. Which as i said is not a pet sitting service.
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Re: Are charities a business?

WTF is this, how anyone thought this a good idea is beyond me


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...igators-snoop/
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WTF is this, how anyone thought this a good idea is beyond me


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Re: Are charities a business?

It's the tip of a very rotten sector. Kelvin Mackenzie's column in my red top continues to expose charities for selling rip off deals to their donors on energy, insurance etc. whilst recieving bungs from big business for every rip off deal they sucker people into.
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Re: Are charities a business?

Is fining them a good idea, might be better to fine the actual people responsible rather than taking it from the funds people have donated, on the whole though anything than regulates them a tiny bit is to be welcomed imo

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