(21-08-2012 20:18 )chrisdaniels Wrote: Thank you
What I have to is raise a minimum of £3750 - A minimum of £1,700 will go directly to Marie Curie Cancer Care
Well good luck to you, I hope you get well over £5000 because if you hit your minimum target, £2050 of the money you raise won't be going to your charity. So you's be spending more on your trip then on the charity with the money raised. Which seems cockeye logic to me. Unless you all chip in and pay for the trip out of your own pockets.
I don't mean to be negative I just have a cycnical nature charities at the moment.
I have absolutely no doubt that people such as you are attempting to raise money for your charities and it's comming from a good place, but i see those tv charity raising and celebs things or charity shops I wonder.
I walk in to a charity shop there's normally a paid manager in every shop. Now has managers these people are getting massive wages easy 20k and above. Then, in all but the warmest weather the heating seems to be on full. Then in the shops round me, the stuff on the shelves seems to be the same tat day in day out; I just can't help thinking how are they covering the wages and fuel bills.
Pretty much people will be giving their old stuff to charity thinking the money raised will go straight to those in need, when in fact most of it will go in wages and utility bills. I know i had a massive clear out a few years back, massive amount went, ps 1's super vhs and alsorts, I never saw any of them in the shop I gave it two baring a few dvd's.
Then have you ever noticed how the managers of these places tend to be upstairs not doing a great deal whilst leaving most of the work to the volenteers? I also heard that these so called managers not only take the best donated stuff for themselves, family and friends, a lot actually abuse their possition and steal thousands of pounds worth of money form the shops.
Wait, why has this turned into a rant. I do apologise.