Old Codger wrote
Cursitor Doom wrote
Capitol wrote

Is it just me, or are others fed up with the quantity of begging adverts
on TV? If I resonded to all of the, I reckon it would cost me over 2K
pounds a year. I do wonder how much it costs to make the advert and
screen it and fear that most of the doantion is wasted. I have a couple
of charities I support each year, and they don't spend a penny on TV.
What do others think?

I fully agree. And big organised charties are mostly scams. If you want
to be charitable, do so *locally* and *directly* to those you personally
can see are in need. Don't trust intermediaries who will pass on little
or nothing on to the cause they claim to support (the Clinton Foundation
for example passed on *nothing* of the money they raised for Haiti to the
Haitians).

The only exception I make is The Salvation Army.

I dont make an exception for them either, and a mate of mine is one of
them.

They do a lot of good work

Nope, they're stupid wowsers who dont even do
much good for the derros they do attempt to help.

And we're just having a full royal commission which has
exposed what they have got up to in their homes for kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sa...ex_abuse_cases

and fund raise by ways other than and in addition to the collection box.

But **** most of what they collect against the
wall on the wages they pay their employees.