To dislike red nose day

[jdoe8]

Just seems to be people doing it for their own personal gain (even if that is just to feel good about themselves), more useless plastic that will end up in landfill and take ages to degrade and more junk food to a nation where 70% of adults are obese or overweight.

I wouldn't mind but its hard to avoid if you have kids, its pushed onto them both at school and in the media.

Suspicion of the charities is at least more understandable than people moaning about it being a mild PITA at school.

But i bet most of the suspicious people dont do anything alternative.

I'd like to see all the celebrities and companies involved in Red Nose Day pay their taxes in full like the rest of us have to. I reckon 20% of all their total gross income would be far more than any 'donations' raised especially if gets gift aid included. The wealthiest people always seem to be the most reluctant to pay tax.

This is a credible website I often recommend about the most affective ways to donate to unglamorous, underfunded but thoroughly-vetted charities, that do things like provide bed nets against malaria, pills against parasitic worm infestation etc etc. The website divides things up as Global Development, Animal Welfare etc.

www.effectivealtruism.org

Silent I agree totally.

They do tend to be the rather has been type of celebrities too.

I hate it too.

Knowing that a lot of the stars used to get paid to take part in the past doesn't make me warm to it tbh.

DDs school doesn't take part (Catholic school) because of some of the investments involved and also because they do lenten fundraising every Friday in lent towards smaller specific chosen charities.

I used to think it was a bit bah humbug but actually as DD has moved up the school the kids have become really involved with seeing what the charities do and where their money goes. Last weekend's homework was to research and do a factsheet on this week's charity - The Book Bus.

Much better than nagging me to go to sainsbury's to buy a red nose!

Each red nose gives 60p to charity. I saw them on sale for a pound.
That's quite an overhead.

Is it? Have you ever run a business? I'd guess not.

Is it? Have you ever run a business? I'd guess not.

Where do you think the rest goes? On Lenny Henry's house?

I don't think it's hard for those with a say in investments to say that the money should absolutely not be invested anywhere near, for example, arms companies.

It is hard, actually. Easy to say, hard to put into practice. Several institutions have been tripped up by this recently, the Church of England for one. What they need is really expert staff and advisors to avoid unethical investments. Which costs money. Hence, overheads.

I say, celebs stay at home, donate what the trip would have cost and we, the public will donate what we can, based on our own judgement, to our charity of our own choice.

Yes, but it doesn't happen, does it? If it did, charities could stop having to divert resources to fundraising and just sit and watch the money rolling in.