"Baz" wrote in message
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in
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You hear so many stories about these charities these days...

RNLI paying millions for a new office block with subsidised meals and
telling sailors that risk their lives for nothing they have to
purchase their own lights from Halfords because they can't afford to
supply specialist ones.**
RHS employing a number of new managers (18?) and sacking 100 gardeners
because the wages bill has gone through the roof.
RSPCA as above post and more similar going back some years.

I think these are all run by people whose families would have sent
them into the Church in the olden days, they all seem totally
incompetent. They have all certainly lost sight of what their
organisation was set up for and what the priorities should be to
achieve that.

** RNLI if you want to give to them then give it to an actual Lifeboat
Station, in their own pot at the station, that goes to that lifeboat
station and does not go in the general pot to pay for the new Head
Offices and staff.


Following your above comments I googled and found astonishingly that of
the
monies collected only a small % as little as 4% actually goes where donors
money is intended.
Can this be right?
Why do we not see this on the front page of our papers?
We are off topic now I know but this is something we all need to know.

As someone who works for a charity [SENSE], I was going to keep out of this
[apart from agreeing on the RSPCA] but ...

think about those donation bags that come through your door almost every
week. We employ our own part-time collectors who put out the bags, then go
back and collect them and bring them into the shop. Many charities use
something called Clothes Aid. Very little of the value of the goods you put
in those bags goes to the charity. They also "collect" any charity bag they
see, theirs or not.

Sadly, not all charities use their donations, in money or in kind, to the
best of their ability.

--
Kathy