"harry" wrote in message
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(I know people on this newsgroup don't like previous postings being snipped,
but sorry, to save trawling down over old stuff I have pruned it out)


There's no doubt that all the big charities have jumped to gap from
just charity to career and well paid at that.
At one time the tin rattler in the street would be working for
nothing. Now they're all on a percentage. There are beaurocrats and
fancy offices.
I have given up donating money, I think they are all too dodgy and
most of the money is used in adminisration. If you every get to talk
to some of the hierarchy, most of them know nothing about their
charity, it's just another business to them. I have spent money in
creating my own reserve. ******** to these money grubbers.
A case in point is the "Fair Trade" ripoff. They give some farmer
in Costa Rica an extra ten pence/kilo for coffee beans. The they
charge me an extra fifty pence. No thanks.
All these charities for third world countries are the same. Clowns,
idiot and crooks.

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Harry I have to agree with you on the waste of money on these charities. I
have been involved on building lifeboats and the waste, and I mean admin
waste, was so bad I cancelled my subscription to them. Dreadful story from
one of their repair depots. They had a maintenance budget and it was getting
towards the end of the financial year and the manager still had some money
left in it, so he decorated some rooms to spend it, 'Because if I don't
spend it, they will cut my budget for next year'. That is just one, I have
others. If you want to subscribe to the RNLI, do it to a lifeboat station
itself if they have a specific need/appeal for a piece of equipment. Don't
let Poole get its grubby hands on it.

Mike



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