To think charity street fundraisers should be banned?

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Not the ones who just have a pot and are asking for small change. The commission earning, high pressure ones employed to pressure you into a direct debit.
My friend in desperation applied to be one and said they were trained in all sorts of manipulative sales techniques and even told to pretend people had dropped money to get their attention.
Apologies if this has been done before but some new ones have just set up in my town. You physically have to move out of their way as they block your path trying to engage you and I just can’t believe they’re still legal.

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I have done some mystery shopping for charities and there are certain rules they have to follow such as not taking more than 3 steps towards you when they approach and have name badges. If they are being rude complain to the head office as they (should) take your complaint seriously.

just give them a fake bank account number. how can they make you prove it's right or not??

I just tell them to fuck off

not taking more than three steps towards you
There’s an utter twat in our local high street who literally gets right in front of people and dances backwards, right in their path, doing fucking jazz hands. You can’t even sidestep him, he mirrors every move you make. Maybe the three steps towards rule is too narrow?
I threatened to knee him in the balls if he didn’t get out of my way and he fell about laughing, calling over to his second in command to make sure he was in on the joke.

Pair of dickheads.
I complained, but didn’t even get the courtesy of a reply.

and that for the price of a takeaway coffee I could donate

Ooh, see that REALLY fucks me off. Years ago when I was properly balls-to-the-wall skint, having a couple of quid for a cup of coffee was a huge treat and I’d have been furious if a chugger has tried to shame me out of my once-every-few-months coffee. The chuggers have absolutely no idea of or care for the lives of the people on the receiving end of their bullshit, just as long as they get their commission, and for this reason alone should be held face down in the nearest body of water until the bubbles stop.

Like a PP, I had chuggers (Greenpeace) come to my door. I was in a hurry so my answer to “Don’t you want to save the world?” was “No” followed by a slammed door.

I noticed some BHF ones around recently but they didn’t come to my door (maybe I’ve been blacklisted?) which was a shame because I enjoy tormenting them.

Interesting “I’m a chugger” article here: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/04/secret-life-chugger-charity-fundraiser

Unless I've missed it, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned them blocking exits from shops. My local W H Smith's especially bad for this - they see someone about to leave and stand in the door, literally preventing you from leaving while they spout nonsense, and only real rudeness makes them move

Complaints to the manager make no difference either, which makes me wonder if the shop gets a cut?

When I rented in a poorer area of town, I had people knock on my door every few days. Lots of my neighbours were quite elderly or on low wages. I now live on a more affluent street and I have never had a charity knock on my door here.

There must be someone on mumsnet who works for a charity and can tell us why so many charities use them, when they are so universally hated.

I’d imagine they do get a cut, yes. WH Smith are renowned for this; I’ve stopped shopping there. Got sick of some arse demanding to know had I made my will, every time I went in!

If I hadn’t, I still wouldn’t be bloody doing it now in the doorway of a fecking newsagent.

I remember years back when I used to regularly read Heat magazine, a chugger who worked in central London wrote to the letters page detailing celebrities they’d approached during work, who was nice and who wasn’t so nice. I don’t remember all of them, but they said Alan Carr was rude.

A few weeks later, Heat ran an interview with Alan Carr. Alan had seen the letter, and went into a rage saying chuggers don't deserve the courtesy of anyone being nice to them and they could all piss off, he was fed up with them harassing people minding their own business on their lunch breaks.

Always stuck in my mind as it made me laugh

Who still uses WHSmith? It's amazing to me that all these high street shops are going and WHSmith survives.

I was caught unaware once and I asked for my bank account details so I gave them a load of rubbish plus a false phone number. I might add that it was the third time in a week I'd been accosted in town so was well pissed off
A friend was shouted at by a foreign aid chugger. 'Don't you care about the people in africa'. She just shouted back 'no I Fucking don't' They have a way of making you feel guilty

I once had one bellow 'don't you want to save the children?!' at me as I tried to get away. Still fills me with rage just thinking about how awful he made me feel and everyone staring at me.

They should absolutely be banned.

@CalamityJune There must be someone on mumsnet who works for a charity and can tell us why so many charities use them, when they are so universally hated.

There is. See @batvixen123 's post above. Apparently it's just fine because it "increases the donor pool". They don't care that they "increase the donor pool" by bullying, guilt-tripping, and aggressively abusing the most vulnerable people in our society.

I agree, it’s part of the reason I avoid the high street tbh. I always feel utterly harassed, especially when you have to walk past the same chugger twice and they approach you both times. I’ve been approached when it was absolutely obvious I didn’t have time to speak which is annoying and infuriating.

The door to door ones are horrendous too. I had one peer over my garden fence to ask my very young DC to tell me to answer the door .

My son with physical and learning disabilities was persuaded to set up a DD a few years ago. I phoned them up and told them that he was unable to make an informed decision and that they preyed on him. I also went to bank and cancelled DD and told them that if any money came out I would be on the case and go public.
Luckily for them they listened. I can't remember the charity but it was a big national one.

My trick is to keep walking even if they get in way, of still in way lead with my shoulder tends to hurt them more than me.

These bastard wankers are also destroying civility. Due to them we are all becoming suspicious of anyone who tries to make a polite request for directions or the time.
Bastards.

The problem is your details are worth more than the money you sign up to give.

I gave to oxfam for 20 years by DD. I kept telling them to stop ringing me and sending me letters asking me for more as I couldn’t. I didn’t want my money used for that.
They wouldn’t so I stopped giving to them.

Very rarely get approached by them these days. I have developed not so much a resting bitch face, more a fuck of or I'll kill you demeanor.

Ones who knock my door mostly get told to fuck off because I am a cynical miserable old cow.

I am nice to all people who are not trying to take advantage of me. Chuggers are not in that group so they can kiss my arse. They are more likely to get permission to bumlove Donald Trump than get money out of me.

I agree @Ihatesundays - they do just want to have your details so the real guilt-trip 'marketing' can begin!

True familycourtq.

Like a PP, I had chuggers (Greenpeace) come to my door. I was in a hurry so my answer to “Don’t you want to save the world?” was “No” followed by a slammed door.

They've got more front than Blackpool asking you that, considering that one of their senior executives had to be shamed into giving up commuting by plane a few years ago. Greepeace - yes, Greenpeace, the same Greenpeace that protests airport expansions - tried to defend it until they eventually had to back down. Fucker still works for Greenpeace. If they want to save the world they could usefully start by sacking "do as I say not as I do" twats like him.

Haven't given them a penny since that story broke (and I used to have a direct debit to them).