To no longer donate to charities

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Issues akin to those being reported in the papers of ‘One Young World’ mean that when you give money now, more often than not it seems to go into the pockets of profiteers. I do still help out locally giving my time that I can spare to projects in my area and I’ll give extra in scenarios where I know exactly to whom my cash is going. I’m so saddened that people are being conned to lining the pockets of wealthy greedy pretend do-gooders - more than anything else recently this has made me realise how f@cked our Country is. So bloody sad.

as for the 'important sponsors will refuse to come to Manchester' for a meeting that is a complete load of nonsense, and even if it's true, use Teams or Zoom instead. But if they won't travel for a meeting, they aren't going to be very committed anyway.

I think Water Aid is a great charity. A simple idea. Clean water for all. And such powerful outcomes. I am sure they probably spend a lot on admin, salaries etc - but the outcomes are so good

I agree. My employer recently asked for suggestions for a new firm charity and I suggested Water Aid (it also had to fill certain criteria, which Water Aid does).

So, all charities should be located where you live "out in the sticks"?
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In fairness, the charity I worked for was out in the sticks, for the very reason that it cost less. They have/had a small office in London that was rented, that could be used for meetings and had one member of staff permanently based there and a couple of desks for anyone who needed to work there for a day or too. It did make my job a bit trickier though - I’d have preferred to have been based from that office tbh.

Are you normally so ridiculous, where did I say that, I was just making the observation for a bit of conversation, heaven forbid, because (here's the full drawn out version) my charity is HQ in London and the journey for me was 2 train changes to Euston, walk for a mile, Underground 3 stops then another walk to the function venue which was close to the HQ building. Total journey time 4 hours, then stay in Travel Dodgy and back home the next day. Cost of £220.

So, all charities should be located where you live "out in the sticks

well they don't need to be in expensive London locations. Much cheaper to have your main office elsewhere and use a Wework in London for all those meetings with MPs.

Have you seen the costs wework are charging?!

I used to work for one of the bigger charities. We had beautiful central London premises backing into one of the great parks - because the Queen was our patron and we paid peppercorn rent for the property.

At least - they were beautiful on the outside, but the upkeep was poor and they were really poorly designed for office working.

Howevrr we would have been paying more to have rented a purpose built office block in Basingstoke.

Quite. Our charity aspires to go national and has a solid Birmingham project. But all the trustees and management are based around London, and can't see further than their own back yard.

Birmingham would be a great flexible location for charities to be based. Easy travel to the rest of England, good access to Wales, and flights to Scotland.

I have stopped all giving because I am disgusted at the antics and how cavalier some are with donated funds.
For example, RNLI are no better than the despised traffickers, they are not rescuing peoplethey cross into french waters, they go right up to the french coast to collect illegals and traffic them to the UK. Is this what the donors expect?
Now we have the Red Cross of all groups who are using donated money to coach illegals on how to deceive the home office and the courts, even to the point of buying them teddy bears to make a 25 year old look under 18. Surely these people should be prosecuted.