Collecting for charity OT

[Weatherlawyer]

Do the people canvassing for donors to charities get paid at least minimum wages?

[Richard]

Regretfully, you're under-qualified for the position.

[Brian Gaff]

There are collectors and there are the paid ones Having some knowledge of collecting for a London Blindness charity who do not actively try to get folk to sign away their dosh I can tell you nobody gets paid other than the normal wages if they are employed or in the case of volunteers zilch nil nuothing. I too get pissed off with what I call corporate collectors who seem to get all the prime sites and yet take the piss. sorry but thats how I feel. Brian

[Harry Bloomfield]

Brian Gaff explained :

Chuggers? We get gangs of them knocking on doors. I just send them on their way, or if there is time, let the dogs out.

[Weatherlawyer]

I have the ideal rejoinder for them:

"How much does the managing director get paid?"

It is generally more than 3 or 4 times the average income for tradesmen. The thing is once you earn enough to feed clothe and educate your family wi th the occasional holiday there is no need for anyone in a charity to earn buckets of cash is there?

But if there are people working for a charity who are in need of charity to start with it is all a bit top heavy.

I have usually found that the collectors have a prepared answer for my ques tion which makes their plight all the more revolting. But if they have work ed an answer out ready to say without thinking it means they have already r ationalised themselves into a corner.

So my response would be that and charity that would persuade them that thei r plight is reasonable I would just ask next if such a corrupt organisation is being run by the Clintons or the Blairs.

For I would never feel guilty about not donating to a pyramid fund. But the point is how is it possible to get dupes so readily and is it legal? If so why?

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

I tell those to piss off ......quite enjoy it .......

[alan_m]

They, and their employers, get to keep all the money they collect. No reputable charity cold collects at your doorstep.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Are there any reputable charities anymore?

[alan_m]

Very few especially these days where a mere £3 a month can save the world ... but only after the £millions spent on advertising and administration have been paid.

[Bod]

Don't forget the cost all of those free biros that mostly end up in the bin and adding to landfill.

[spuorgelgoog]

Of course the £millions isn't spent by the charity.

It's spent by the arm's-length fundraising company or trading subsidiary.

99% of the thruppence that the charity actually receives is genuinely spent on saving the world.

It's a bit like Uber's and Starbucks' UK tax returns, but possibly not as h onest.

Owain

[tabbypurr]

None of the answers so far are correct.

[newshound]

:-)

My greyhounds, unfortunately, would just lick them to death. That's if they could be bothered to get up.

[Harry Bloomfield]

alan_m wrote on 20/05/2017 :

As I understand it, not quite true...

Idea is to get you signed up to a DD regular payment deal. The chugger company gets to keep all or a proportion of the first several payments, then the charity get the rest. It seems charities do benefit, better than nothing, but better would be if all the monies went direct to the charity - as a lot of people think/ would expect.

The real winner in all of this is the chuggers and the company employing them. We get inundated with them going door to door and in the local shopping street too. So many that I put a notice on our gate

- 'NO CHUGGERS, DOGS ARE LOOSE' - That has kept them mostly away from the front door for several years.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Judging by the enthusiasm and the pressure they use to try to sign you up, they are on bonuses or a share of the profits. I don't know how they sleep at night, knowing they have pressurised gullible people to sign up to they deal - it is just so dishonest.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Really? I get all the major well known respected ones round here beggin= g for money. Red Cross, that sort of thing.

Why would they? Nobody is stupid enough not to use them first.

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Don't take life so seriously, it's not permanent.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

This stops them and salesmen and religious nuts:

(Despite the address containing "gay turd", that's not what it is, it's = random letters created by the server!)

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You've heard of "Virgin Wool from New Zealand?" It's a myth.

[Bod]

You always claim to know what *everybody* else does. We throw them because we have several good quality Biros that work. Most of the charity ones are useless anyway.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I incorrectly assumed others had a basic level of intelligence. Why thr= ow away what you are given? And they work fine for me.

If I gave you a laptop, would you throw it in the bin because you alread= y have one?

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All this "expressionism" in art, personally I think things ought to look= like things. To me it's fairly easy to tell what the artists are trying to say with their smears and swirls -- = they're trying to say they can't paint worth a damn.

[Bod]

What a silly reply.