To detest children in need?

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The show that takes my precious eastenders away from me NOT what it stands for.
The whole terry Wogan/gabby roslin thing makes me want to rip my eyes out ..
I don't need to watch a bunch of non slebs doing shit to know what's happening in the world.
However I do give a good wedge every year... I'm not a total fucker!

"It doesn't need to touch you in any way"

bollocks! its compulsary unless you make your child stand out by being the only one not in PJs.

You cant go to the bank without it in your face

couldn't even go to the local soft play today because it was CIN day so higher prices but you get a minging spotty cupcake and some money goes to CIN

you can't avoid it!

I do help children that are actually in need BTW, both with my time and money. But being on a v low income I fecking hate the compulsary element of CIN, we give money that we don't really have to causes we really believe in, I also give a morning a week to a good cause, I don't have spare cash to give to one I'm not choosing too!

I was about to post a very similar thing OP. It's naff and dated and they tried to make DS1 go to school in his pyjamas. He didn't think so, and neither did his 2 close friends. I mean they are nearly 7, do they take them for fools?

I bought one t shirt for dd this year and one ears headband last year. That's all. So shoot me.

I only bought those because dd likes it.
So shoot me.

I do direct charity work with a local charity whose cause I feel very emotive about. I do pro bono stuff with them as its directly connected to my profession. This involves dealing directly with service users and direct support. They arnt entitled to CIN finding because you can only get start up, not continuation finding but hey - that's another thread/rant.

No colley. It was to all those that feel CIN is a nuisance for disrupting them. In any way at all. Spotty cupcakes in the supermarkeet? How fucking dare they?
We could have a debate about political propaganda amarylisis. We could discuss the rights and wrongs of public donations to fund vital services. That wouldn't actually help the children and families who benefit from CIN would it? So that isn't actually the point. The point is: CIN raises money and awareness for people who are in desperate, fucking need. It doesn't help all of them. It doesn't actually touch it. But it helps some. Those some are ridiculously grateful. Should they not be? Should they say 'no, we don't want your money, we'll manage'. Except they won't. Manage.

FWIW I have managed not to shell out a single penny

YANBU to dislike watching CIN on TV - if you don't like it, switch over.

YABU to complain about people raising money for good causes. You don't have to give if you choose not to, but the reason they do this kind of appealevery year is because it works. Lots of people do give, and lots of people do benefit.

The comments about foreign aid are irrelevant as all of the CIN money stays in the UK.

And as for Terry Wogan, he's a national institution. Don't knock him!

and the reason I didn't start a thread was due to this ^^.

AND LEAVE MY DAD ALONE!!!!

Sir Terry, actually started a collection at CIN few years ago my dh was in band. Terry put in £20 to start it off and took it back at end of collection. He was being paid £7 then. I'd gladly give 1% of my income to CIN if he and all the others slebs matched it.

Ah ok tufty I am very aware my own issues with CIN are embedded in the very dark past and probably unlikely to ever be resolved (as I said very long story that my family get revised every year)

aksherly, it's not CIN I detest as much as the awful night of 'entertainment' that accompanies it. I would give some cold hard cash if they weren't soooooo awful

Ha Ha I meant 7k,

"It's not compulsory! Give 1p. Give £10. give nothing. Turn over. Miss soft play for a day, go to the park. Just stop moaning about something that ....."
.. you forgot "don't send you child to school that week"!
So in a deprived area where families really are in need we are piled with huge pressure to give money we don't have or else our children are visible scape goats! lovely! but hey some shite celeb did a song for free so we really should do more!

dd's school support it, the young people get involved.
even though they are CIN

if you don't like it turn over.

And no you don't HAVE to buy spotty socks or any of the fundraising shite.

Teaching kids about helping those less fortunate then themselves is a good reality check.

I like the fact that CIN supports loads of small struggling UK charities -no govt is ever going to have enough to fund all of them.

So how much did you have to pay for your children to go to school in their pyjamas?

My childs school is in a deprived area, no pressure at school though, but everyone had spotty/own clothes day and donated.

Its pretty much passed me by this year.

.....and I love TW

a quid Tufty but mine rebelled

We paid 50p, but I also put some money in the bucket at home time. [not loads, just my pocket change-couple of quid]

It was a £1 for mine too but if we couldn't afford it I would have given what we could afford. It is not compulsory and stop pretending it is.