Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

TANKER

The thing i just can't forgive her for is her dress sense

"But there were also concerns over how public money was being spent by the charity after it was revealed that some of a £3m emergency restructuring grant – awarded a week ago – was spent on overdue staff wages."



http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/05/kids-company-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-confirms-charity-closure

He is a Hays look alike!

Charities--------too many are run for the benefit of the officials and not the cause they hide behind.
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Have you tried running one?

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have you ?

have you ?

to take over 130k a year to run a charity is a dam disgrace .
most people work in helping people for nothing to take more than a living wage is
no more than being a crook .
she did nothing only spend the money winning and dinning friends jollies
and paying family wages well above the living wage and the white workers in Bristol
as little as possible

she should be charged with fraud

No I haven't tried running a charity Fred.
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Fury over £234,000 salary of the top boss at Save the Children: Charity chiefs' huge wages must be reined in, say MPs
High earner, thought to be Jasmine Whitbread, among 20 earning over £100k
Another nine on six-figure salaries at charity's UK arm
Surpassed by highest paid employee at Marie Stopes - who earns £290k
MPs today condemned the pay rates and secrecy surrounding figures

the charity is for the directors .
never give another penny to charity

My son's American University tutoring was correct:

1. If you are going to set up your own business, then try to set it up as a charity. The tax treatment is amazingly generous.
2. Pay yourself a generous salary and expenses and live well out of it.
3. If you don't want to bother with 'set-up costs' then go and work for someone else's charity, preferably the bigger the better. All the awkward questions will hav ealready been asked and the answers dealt with satisfactorily.

Lastly,

Most 'chuggers' earn around 50% commission on donations fixed to 'direct debit bank payments'.

'Chugger' (noun)

British informal defintion:

A person who approaches passers-by in the street asking for subscriptions or donations to a particular charity:
As in "when you have chuggers outside your shop, people just cross the road"

How much do chuggers cost?

It would be interesting to know the total amount the government gives, on behalf of the taxpayers, to all registered charities.
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"No business can make money without spending money and fundraising is no different.

The real danger behind this story is the perpetuation of a myth that charities run solely on the goodwill of free volunteers and should never spend any money on anything other than the good causes they support.

Yes there is wastage in the sector but we need people educated about the reality many charities live in rather than the continuation of a misguided view many people have."

And then there is also the 'abuse' committed by those of poor morality who are closely associated with charity work and may or may not have power to direct financial gain not only towards their charity but also towards themselves and their complicit associates.