Peckham 1:33 Wed Dec 12
Charities. Do you donate regular what's your preferred charity.
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Out of curiosity how many WHOers donate to the Royal British Legion and poppy appeal?
They have 300 million in the bank. But they do good work that most public would not know.
Fuck all to do with West Ham but who has a generous mob.
Coyis
Have faith in El Pel
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Gavros
1:37 Wed Dec 12
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Get a poppy every year, as everyone of course should.
I like at Christmas to give a donation to the smile train, which fixes cleft palates for children in poorer countries. Just £150 can change a child's entire life prospects around.
https://smiletrain.org.uk
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lowermarshhammer
1:50 Wed Dec 12
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Poppies.
Essex Wildlife Trust.
BTO
RSPB
Wild Trout Trust
Polycystic kidney disease.
Prostate Cancer
The above get a few shekels.
Take unwanted clothes to British Heart Foundation, sometimes Oxfam, someone's got to pay for their world wide whoring exploits.
Hate, no HATE, the fact that many people at the top of charities earn a fucking fortune. What the fuck is that all about. Hate the fact that if you make a one off donation to a charity they spend a fortune haranguing you for more.
detest chuggers, they can fucking do one.
Kid I sat next to in Biology was on television chugging for Parkinson's Disease. Fair enough, he's one of the world's leading experts in it. Hadn't seen him.for 30.years. Sent them some.money,and contacted him on Twitter and reminded him that he used to copy my homework, the clever cunt.
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Alfs
2:30 Wed Dec 12
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I don't trust a lot of charities anymore. They should be forced to advertise how much of the donations actually go to the causes they represent.
I was once stopped by a (quite beautiful) chugger a few years back who wanted me to sign a monthly donation to Amnesty International. After hearing her spiel I said I'd do £3 per month, only for her to say "Sorry, there's a £7 per month minimum".
She wasn't that beautiful.
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Westham67
3:33 Wed Dec 12
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We donate to and orphanage
And we buy food for the stray cat and dogs that live at the local temple
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Guy Gibsons Dog
3:50 Wed Dec 12
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Not just the salaries many get who work for them, have a look at where their offices are located pretty most are in prime office space in central London, why can they not be based in other cities.
Oxfam and Sue Ryder are one of the few that are not based in Central London, anyone seen the properties that the Salvation Army own
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daveyg
4:40 Wed Dec 12
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RNLI
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Sydney_Iron
5:51 Wed Dec 12
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Have sponsored a kid via World Vision for nearly 25 years, well im on kid number 6 at present! a Bangladeshi, his last photo had him with his big ruck sack on, looked like he was off on a mission!!! Hopefully im not inadvertently sponsoring terrorism?
Also donate each month to Save the Children, RSPCA and PCYC and give the odd donation to the Cancer council, heart foundation and an organisation that helps restore sight to those in the 3rd world.
Its all tax deductible here, so bit more incentive to give a bit more.
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Mike Oxsaw
5:55 Wed Dec 12
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RNLI are fucking LOADED. They don't need my money.
Wherever I happen to be working, it's LOCAL charity that gets my attention. Not hard to find, research then decide who gets what.
Less chance of a percentage of my donation going straight to "administration costs" before the real target gets a sniff.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
6:48 Wed Dec 12
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I set up a number of micro loans through lendingwithcare.org
£15 here or there to help a group in the developing world by equipment for a business for their village etc. Every so often you get 80p back or so. Removes dependency and goes against the massive industry that charity has become.
There was someone on here a while back exposing the likes of children in need and cancer research. Feels like a big scam backed up by emotional rhetoric making it impossible to question without sounding like a bigot.
There is research done that looks at the value of donations compared to impact made on the world - Against Malaria have the biggest impact by far so if you want to pump money then pump in there or find a local charity where they don’t have £200k a year CEOs pretending they can earn far more in the private sector. They can’t.
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Mex Martillo
7:15 Wed Dec 12
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NSPCC and Red Cross
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zebthecat
9:31 Wed Dec 12
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RSPB and Sussex Air Ambulance
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bertie
9:40 Wed Dec 12
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My mate used to audit national charities and he always said not to donate to them but to donate to smaller local charities. As what he saw in terms of waste and do Gooders taking the piss was staggering.
He said one of the main charities had an internal mission statement that was to be bigger than another charity. You would have thought their mission would have been to help people.
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Grumpster
9:43 Wed Dec 12
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Essex Air Ambulance and the RSPB monthly.
RSPB will just be for a year before changing to something else.
Give the odd random donation to Cancer, as I see that as the most important charity seeing as it affects the most people.
And always the text donation thing to whatever is on TV. Even the kids one and I hate kids!
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BRANDED
9:47 Wed Dec 12
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Woodland trust
Childrens society
Shelter
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Russ of the BML
10:00 Wed Dec 12
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I do local now.
Essex Air Ambulance
St Lukes Hospice
Although I do Barnardos when I get the chance.
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Grumpster
10:16 Wed Dec 12
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On the original message though, I do buy an old style poppy every year for a score, as I may not be rich, but £20 a year to pay for the sacrifice of 100 years worth of forces personnel is small fry and I'm in no doubt that many do even more for such a worthy cause.
I never see anyone else in my team wearing one and seeing as a couple of them are millionaire lawyers, I'd be disappointed if they weren't giving anything, though at the same time not surprised as a lot of people born with a silver spoon in their gobs just don't live in the real world.
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LeroysBoots
10:42 Wed Dec 12
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I donate frequently to the Sullivan & Gold retirement fund, thing is neither of them want to retire !
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LeroysBoots
10:44 Wed Dec 12
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Charity should begin at home anyway
I donate money to my Mrs for putting up with me
And sometimes I give to the local hospice in East Sussex and the Air Ambulance
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Vexed
10:54 Wed Dec 12
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National Deaf Children's Association
Ronald Mcdonald House Chariy
Centre Point (although I'm going to fuck these clowns off for continually bombarding me with further begging letters written by cunts like Stephen Fry)
Poppy appeal (which I will also be fucking off once all the WW2 folks have popped their clogs - won't be popular don't care)
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wd40
10:57 Wed Dec 12
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https://smiletrain.org.uk
smile train is excellent.
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