To not sign up to charity donations at the door.

[iMum]

A very nice, gift of the gab man just rang my (door)bell to ask me to sign up to weekly donations to the NCDS (national deaf childs association) he had an ID of sorts and with him 1 direct debit form and 1 leaflet/pack of stickers that he would only leave with me if I signed up.

I would love to support a charity like this one but I dont feel comfortable giving out my bank account details alongside address date of birth etc. So I declined.

I mentioned that I would go online and check out the charity and perhaps donate that way but he said the charity then loose 30% of it to admin costs?

Am I wrong to not want to give this info out at the door to by all intents and purposes a genuine charity caller, is this info already readily available to anyone who looks anyway?

I felt very mean but am so cautious-maybe too much?

Puppy please do have a word. it's not just chuggers and gas people knocking on doors

I'm sure you know that though. My granny got fleeced because she was polite.

bastards the lot of them.

last time i got collared by one of these he chatted me up when he failed to secure my bank details he asked for my phone number instead. I only stopped to talk to him because he was fund raising for the Red Cross, of which i used to be an attending member so decided to see if he really knew what he was talking about. I'd have been flattered if he wasn't just doing it to try and get money our of me.
I've also had someone sacked from fundraising via the phone. She was so incredibly rude to me, that i decided to report her. I was contacted by someone high up in the charity with an apology, they had monitored her calls and were appalled at her attitude.

I've worked in two charity shops and to be honest it made me very cynical about supporting big charities and now i tend to support smaller local ones, some run by people i know.

I had a right old time with one of these, was very rude and then came back a couple of days later and spoke to DH and started going on about the fact that our neighbours had been very generous!! I complained.

I have two direct debits to charities that I did via door-to-door recruitment. One was for a charity I had worked for previously and the other I just liked the idea of. I haven't had anyone unpleasant or overly pushy and others I just say no thanks.

The one thing that does annoy me is the mail I get from some other charities that I assume is a result of being signed up to one of these two charities (but interestingly not the other one).

I have no problem with third party recruitment - I can see it could be a very sensible solution to fundraising - as long as they are pleasant and curteous and not annoying and pushy.

I don't enjoy saying no to pictures of suffering children/animals etc but I suppose they have to raise the money somehow and a moment's discomfort is a small price.