On 06/06/2015 11:04, Nightjar "cpb"@ wrote:
On 06/06/2015 10:47, charles wrote:
In article ,
Nightjar cpb@ insert my surname here.me.uk wrote:
On 05/06/2015 23:57, wrote:
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The flipside is that without all that there would be far less good work
done...

That is debatable. Have you ever seen them collecting for the RNLI?


I haven't, but the RNLI do have flag days.


Indeed, but the collectors are RNLI volunteers and supporters, not
employees of professional collecting companies. All the money donated
goes straight to the RNLI.

There are two ways of looking at that though. People often feel uneasy
when not all the money collected goes to the charity. However the better
fund raising companies will be able to take what is donated, and spend
it on bigger higher profile events and promotions, that in turn drag in
far more money than the sum raised in the first place. Of that they will
take a sizeable cut of the profits.

So you may end up with a situation where you could have 100% of
donations (say £5k), or let the fund raisers speculate with the money,
and say generate £20k - of which they take £10k and you take £10K.



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Cheers,

John.

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