Hannah Ingram Moore. AIBU Not To Be Surprised At Charity Commission Findings?

[Curtainqueen]

After the bulldozing of her luxury spa I really am unsurprised at the findings that her and her husband did after all benefit significantly from the charity and repeatedly had their hand in the till. Did she honestly believe this would never come out?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qdq67dd5o

I understand they even dragged the kids on TV interviews to garner sympathy while mummy was turning the tears on about how awfully she had been treated.

My FIL thinks I'm an absolute mug for giving up an afternoon of my time each week to work in a charity shop. Why on earth would you work and not get paid for it? See also: giving blood, running the PTA, volunteering at large sporting events. He has very odd ideas about a lot of things but is not alone in those ideas.

I think deep down people know that charities are a good thing and are doing valuable work. Many people - i'd argue most - have benefited from the work of volunteers even if that's just being able to get their kid into Brownies, having a team of litter pickers making their local park tidier, or attending a football match and seeing the first aid volunteers helping someone who's fallen. A lot of people feel threatened by volunteers - they know that they are contributing and giving back to the community. Rather than actually put themselves out and get involved and comtributing, it's easier to sneer at the "PTA mummies" or the thieving charity shop volunteers, or the fat cat bosses, or the nasty Brown Owl.

Then along comes a bad apple like this woman and the sneerers have their confirmation bias firmly boosted - see I was right, they ARE all thieving do-gooders, charity is rotten to the core! 🙄

‘Better staff common rooms’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That isn't how NHS Charity works. It can't be used directly for patient care unless being raised specifically for an item. And to build a ward, you need to build a hospital first. There generally aren't many large spaces in hospitals where wards can be added.

At the time, yes NHS staff did need money spending on things like 'common rooms'. They weren't able to leave during their shifts, and many MANY were working in pretty awful conditions. So a couple of comfy chairs for them to rest on during a lunch break made a massive difference.

The hospital I was working at received a donation, and it was used on buying pyjamas, underwear and personal care items for patients as that was a massive problem during the lockdowns.

People who donated to the Captain Tom Foundation are absolute mugs, it was clearly dodgy from the start but every just HAS to virtue signal around the latest trend don’t they

As a charity CEO I must be doing it all wrong, no fat cat living off a top notch wage for me

It’s a bit unfair to tar all charities with the same brush. If charities are dodgy we hear about it. The Charities Commission requires charities to be EXTREMELY transparent, and before I donate I always check out a profile int he CC website

I do

The whole thing was stage managed from the start. There was an old woman near me baking and cooking like mad for the housebound - bit of coverage in the local paper but that was it. Loads of people did tremendously good, kind hearted acts in the pandemic and didn’t get a knighthood for it.

The woman near you didn't have the BBC behind her, bringing her kitchen to the nation every morning on breakfast news.
Whereas Tom trudging round his garden followed by every movement by him and the daughter thereafter....remember her in the Royal box at Wimbledon taking applause....I was WTAF...
She became inflated with her self importance