Vernon Kay

[kenbro]

I can understand the debt counselling as i work with a charity that regularly is asked by families for money towards the cost of living yet they have a 62" flat screen and all the packages sky offers and they get quite incredulous when you suggest they scale it back a bit!. on a side note the the charity regularly asks children in need and the lottery for money but is denied because we take children fishing among other things which boil down to not being "woke" enough!

I thought some adults with MH issues were eligible for fishing at taxpayer expense.
Jen.

 

[tackb]

You're assuming that none of the 90m will be going to children's charities ? Or, perhaps the trustee's of the charity are careful where the money goes too, and having a sum of money available to be used at short notice, would seem sensible to me ?

I don't think we actually think that differently about the BBC, I just don't think they have the free hand over the charities money, you think they do.

I assume nothing , it’s simply that at the moment their figures and claims doesn’t add up

we may agree on the BBC i don’t know, and the BBC as you say are or at least should be under very close scrutiny with regards to charity donations

 

[tackb]

Can admin please close this thread as I absolutely despair at some of my fellow members on here.

You know you have the option to ignore this thread ?

instead you wish to remove it for other people…………

 

[Rake Aboot]

You know you have the option to ignore this thread ?

instead you wish to remove it for other people…………

It was him that started the thread
No wondered he’s in despair mind.

 

[Automan]

Ok so which of you dissenters is brave to have a go at Kevin Sinfield the guy who's raised a lot of money for mnd that his mate Rob Burrows suffers from.

 

[sauer]

Please explain what you consider relevant, about the pay of a BBC employee, to giving to a charity that the BBC run with no BBC employees being paid for their involvement ?

If people don't want to give to a charity, that's their right, but some of the excuses people feel the need to come up with, just smack of "tight fisted" !

I stopped giving to charities years ago when I read how much of your donation actually gets to where it needs to be .
I also disagree with salaries in 6 figures of charity heads / managers etc .
As for the BBC well …. Enough said !

As for tight fisted just because you don’t donate to “ charities” doesn’t make you tight fisted ….
Every quarter I go shopping with missis and fill a seperate trolley with food and gove to local food bank … I’ve also been helping out less fortunate families at wife’s school with venison parcels of vak packed ready made for table ….
I do my bit …. If it different from yours doesn’t make it less

 

[Bo Diddley]

and fill a seperate trolley with food and gove to local food bank

I have a cousin that works for Waitrose.. her manager has stopped the store from giving joints of meat to the "food bank" charity that collects from them, he did a little undercover helping for the food bank and realised that none of the joints of meat ended up feeding the people he thought they would be feeding....

 

[sauer]

Our food banks don’t take fresh meat either worried about temps & bacteria etc ….
Dried goods , tinned goods long life stuff , toiletries etc etc

 

[Lateral]

As for tight fisted just because you don’t donate to “ charities” doesn’t make you tight fisted ….
Every quarter I go shopping with missis and fill a seperate trolley with food and gove to local food bank … I’ve also been helping out less fortunate families at wife’s school with venison parcels of vak packed ready made for table ….
I do my bit …. If it different from yours doesn’t make it less

Sauer,

But you are giving to charity, and spend a lot more time and effort than most, who just pay some money over the internet

 

[BenBhoy]

IF the donation went to british children in need then its a good cause if its wasted on people outside the uk then NO.

Absolute & total shame on you sir. Low as low.

 

[Rake Aboot]

Absolute & total shame on you sir. Low as low.

Is that you reminding him it’s the anniversary of his really ignorant statement

 

[jimmer.13]

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