Grabby Justgiving pages.

[MrsMingech]

I've never experienced this before but it dawned on me that it must happen quite a bit.

Someone local to me ran out of money when building her extension and has put up a Justgiving page to raise the money to finish it.

It's raised about £30 the last time I checked and not budging.

Anyone else experienced CF JG pages?

I was hoping someone would enjoy it. 😃

There are 1000s of young girls with gender dysphoria worldwide currently trying to ask people for money on crows-funding platforms for top surgery (aka having their breasts chopped off). I find this so distressing. These are young girls :-( platforms like JustGiving have no morals.

'My elderly father is walking around his garden to raise money for nurses what are HEROES please give me £30 million pounds'

I remember cringing at the one Amanda Knox and her husband did for their themed wedding. Not because of any prior judgement about her but just the last thing I’d fundraise for, and then adding to it how much bad publicity she was already dealing with.

It's so weird. I've never seen one of these on my Facebook! They seem quite common however!

In general I dont see a problem with them. It's usually pretty clear if someone is being cheeky, even outrageously so, so you can give or not as you please. Almost universally I dont please.

A certain "celebrity" chef in my locality set up a justgiving page during lockdown, as well as taking all the furlough, grants etc available to them and having some very generous contributions to an extension on their premises from local building firms (basically a freebie worth tens of thousands)... this chef has now liquidated that business and started up a bigger, fancier project elsewhere.

I get just as annoyed at the gullible mugs who donate to these CF's as I do at the CF's themselves.

The most memorable for me are:

That family who went on TV about unschooling and living off the grid and tried raising funds to be a yoga teacher or something

A friend who wanted to be in an exhibition. They had been specially invited apparently. Except it was clearly the art equivalent of vanity publishing, as their art was like that of a vaguely promising ten year old. To make things more ridiculous, the exhibition was online because of covid, so it was literally just paying to have their pictures included in a slide show and online book with a short bio. I did feel sorry for them in a way as they were clearly taken in by the spiel about what a fantastic opportunity it was.

An ex friend who raised money for private MH treatment for her child. Would be a worthy cause obviously, but so much of it was hugely exaggerated, there has been constant lying from this woman about all aspects of life. Plus similar to other stories on this thread, it was especially galling knowing what else she spent money on knowing that sympathetic FB friends (and charities at Christmas etc) would pick up the pieces.

Absolutely agree about all the funding for “top surgery”. It’s terrifying for many reasons. :(

@homeedregret

I have a relative who is a very keen runner and made it a lifetime goal to run every international marathon. He cleverly got around it by doing it for charity. So Action Cancer or whatever would say you have to raise at least £3k to enter (this included flights and accommodation) so he'd set up pub quizzes, bag packing, car boot sales etc 'for cancer' and everyone thinks he has a heart of gold. He's gone all around the world free of charge due to the kindness of others, who think they are raising large amounts for charity. Once the expenses are paid the charity would be lucky to get a quarter of the amount raised.

My ex colleague wanted sponsorship for a charity skydive. She had to raise so much in order to get the skydive free. Other people were saying how amazing she was. I just felt she wanted a free skydive, but maybe I’m horrible and missing the point.

About 20 years ago, before just giving was around, our next door neighbour had a street party to fund raise for a prosthetic leg for her husband. He had had an amputation due to poor blood supply.
They raised a couple of thousand puunds, unfortunately they never got him the leg because he continued to smoke and had to have his other leg amputated.
Nobody liked to ask what the money was eventually spent on.

[quote Bangolads]@Whawasthat more fool you for being proud and silly my dear.[/quote]
I don’t think I was silly. It was difficult enough telling my children their dad took his own life while they were waiting to be picked up by him without washing my hands of the funeral.

I think patreon is a bit different. I am subscribed to a few.
I was already listening to an episode a week free, for £2.50 a month its advert free, episodes come a bit early. There's an extra episode a month, and then a spin off show each week.

Even when I don't use the patreon bonus episodd stuff it seems reasonable to spend £2.50 on 5 hours of content a month that I enjoy, that goes straight to the makers . Realistically once the level of content is that high then they tend to give up jobs etc, and for me it's the price of a magazine a month and less than one visit to the cinema

@jackieh1987

'My elderly father is walking around his garden to raise money for nurses what are HEROES please give me £30 million pounds'

I didn't actually donate to that because I thought it just showed how pathetic of a country we were that we had to raise money for a government funded department by asking an old man to walk in his garden. Kind of glad now considering what ended up happening..

@allofusaredead all of the money raised by Captain Tom’s walks went to NHS charities (whatever they are). Not a single penny went to funding the NHS.

I worked with a young lad who did the ‘going on holiday to raise awareness of mental health’ bollocks. He did it twice. I must say he did put huge efforts into fundraising the first 2 times. The 3rd time it seemed he thought he could just ask, he got basically nothing.

I had an ex friend who sent me a go fund to send her son on an acting course in London he has been ‘specially invited onto’. Except looking at it, if you had money basically you got a place. He needed flights from Australia though and she knew ‘we had money’. He also never went.

Patreon is completely unregulated. You can make promises and give nothing and they won’t do anything about it, your problem. There’s actually someone fairly well know who does this, just takes the cash. They need some regulation putting in place.

So, you're telling me that if I create a page for my new kitchen extension and post it here, that none of you will donate...?

I listen to a lot of podcasts and and surprised how many people subscribe via Patreon. I suppose it’s no different to setting up a band, gigging and becoming successful.
But many of the hosts have full time jobs which they talk about and then it seems donations are used to buy equipment? Definitely finding someone’s hobby however good the output is

But in this case you have the pleasure of listening to the podcast or watching the youtube video. You are getting value from your contribution.

@BobHadBitchTits

So, you're telling me that if I create a page for my new kitchen extension and post it here, that none of you will donate...?

Are you having granite worktops and a quooker tap? I would consider it then

A friend set up a page for contributions for a new wheelchair for DS and raised £800 which was a huge help towards the cost. I did feel horribly cringy about it though. I only put towards people I know, never a stranger. Far too much opportunity to scam people.

@HELLITHURT

Of course!

Why should I limit myself to just what I can afford?

My favourite is from a time in the last millennium, before Justgiving, Gofundme and the rest. A woman gave birth to premature triplets in a hospital where I worked. Triplets are unusual and the local media reported the birth, then followed it up with several weeks of heartstring-tugging appeals for money from the parents because raising triplets is expensive. Those of us who knew that the parents rarely visited the babies in the months they were in the neonatal unit and that the babies were going to be discharged into foster care with a view to adoption because of the parents' substance misuse and chaotic lifestyle could do no more than roll our eyes because we were bound by confidentiality.

@ShamedBySiri

Dr Christian Jensen is a cracker. He got stung for libel and thinks his fans should pay up. Currently standing at £10,210 which is well short of the £125,000 plus substantial costs due.

A bit of background for anyone who missed it. Looks like the final bill may be in the region of £425k

Arlene Foster libel costs TV doctor £425,000.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/245465be-bf1b-11eb-a904-b6ed9daa84aa?shareToken=acda07968ff90478cbba31601b173cb55_

I forgot to say - quite a few of the donations are from people who object to Arlene Foster and who have chosen inventive and/or witty names and happily paid £5 to make their point.

OMG to think I used to like Christian Jensen! What a cheeky git!

@BobHadBitchTits

So, you're telling me that if I create a page for my new kitchen extension and post it here, that none of you will donate...?

I'll donate a couple of tiles.

I got conned at work with someone from different department and their sponsor-me crap…. She wanted the money before the event ...

@Puzzledandpissedoff

This is another thing I don't understand. Back in the day you'd write down the names, do the activity, and then collect the cash based on your results.

Within the net it's even easier now, but no - folk seem to want cash upfront.

This. ^

Some years ago (maybe 7,) a couple of little girls aged 9-10ish, knocked my door around 11am on day, asking me to sponsor their 'sponsored walk' around the canal path from one point to another - 7 miles altogether. One said 'most people are paying a pound a mile.'

I could see 2 adult women who I assumed were teachers, walking with around 12 other children and they were all knocking on doors in my street (many didn't answer.) I said 'umm OK then, give me your sponsorship form and I will give say 75p a mile.' (around a fiver.)

One girl said 'we have already done it so we need the money now. Today is our last day to collect the money off people. So we need it now.'

I said 'but I don't have any money in the house. Only a pound coin and a bit of silver change in my purse.' 'That will do' said one. I was stunned but handed the money over. (£2.15 in the end.) The two girls stood there and watched me tip every last coin out of my purse, took it, didn't even thank me, and walked off...

I am pretty sure it was genuine, although, as I have nothing to do with the school or any of the teachers or mums there, I never found out. But I said to myself, that is the last time that will be happening.

My favourite was the guy at work who did a sponsored slim, put more weight on instead, and told us all "You can still give me the money if you like"

LOL what a cheek! As you say, it's a bit odd how people want the money upfront these days, and I do wonder with many 'sponsored things' how much money some people keep for themselves.