Donated £5 through text to save the children. Just had a guy on the phone trying to talk me into giving £10 a month. Through the course of the call, he said save the children's aim is to raise £324,000 in the next four years. He then added that this years add had cost £82,500 and ended on 31st January. I asked him would they repeat the campaign each year. He said they might. So if each years campaign costs £82,500 that is £330,000 spent to raise £324,000. And of course "some" of the money raised goes towards funding the campaign. Either he has gotten his figures wrong, or they are wolfs in sheeps clothing who won't be getting any more money from me.You think you're doing a good deed, helping children until you wonder if you are really just giving some advertising executives a lovely christmas bonus instead 
All this came up because I had asked could I not just give via the website when I wished, and he said no we loose money if you do that and I asked why. He did say several times "I don't think I'm making sense". And when I seemed a bit 
over £82,000 he gave me a full "disclosure" stating he was legally obliged to tell me he was ringing on behalf of listen, the company that runs the campaign, not save the children. Can anyone shed some light on all this?