On 26/05/2015 23:36, Nightjar "cpb"@ wrote:
On 26/05/2015 21:05, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2015 18:04:30 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

harryagain was thinking very hard :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...reign-aid-fat-
cats-built-1-4billion-empire-tax-money.html

I have exactly the same concerns about many of the larger charities.
Many millions collected, but those for whom the money was collected,
see very little of the money.

Foreign aid and charity has now become big business, run by
millionaires.

You beat me to it! I was about to say precisely the same thing. The
Charities Aid Foundation is one of the worst offenders in this area.

Peeps, if you're feeling charitable, please give *directly* to those
you're satisfied are genuinely in need and NOT via intermediary
organisations!


So, if you are sitting in a sinking boat in the middle of the channel, I
should fly over and drop you a £50 note with the message 'here, hire
yourself a rescue boat', rather than give the money to the RNLI, so they
can have one ready when you need it?

Well, if I were in charge of this country, then the RNLI would have been
founded by the government, not charity. The same would have applied to
hospices for example.

If I give £25 to Oxfam on the understanding that they will use it to
provide a family in Africa with a goat, I don't really care if the goat
only cost £5 and the rest went on admin, if the family end up with a goat.


Fair enough.