November 20, 2008 at 5:19 pm
In this time of credit crunch and media hype I can understand charities getting more aggressive with their fundraising schemes.
I would like however to meet the fool who has come up with the latest idea of going door to door ‘begging’.
My first knock on the door came a few weeks ago. I was on my [...]
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October 16, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Approached on the street, asked to help the charity by giving a monthly donation , explained that I wasn’t in a position at the moment to help out and spent the next 5 minutes being made to feel like I was scum because I said no.
Fella was very in your face and said “It’s ok [...]
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October 15, 2008 at 4:28 pm
As in my previous post I mentioned how I was approached to spare as much cash as I could for Oxfam which I did.
A few days after confirming my details I received a package which contained a thank you letter (comparing me to Emmeline Pankhurst and Nelson Mandela!!!!!),a huge picture of the world ,a pie [...]
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September 19, 2008 at 10:59 am
One very rainy ,windy Friday afternoon a couple of weeks ago I was approached in Newcastle by a rep for Oxfam asking if I would be interested in someone contacting me about setting up a direct debit for a donation every month .
Normally I wouldnt say yes but I had heard of the charity unlike previous times [...]
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September 4, 2008 at 10:23 am
A lot of charities rely heavily on The National Lottery to help fund them in running costs , projects etc but recently I heard of a charity close to my heart having its lottery fund withdrawn as they are concentrating on funding the Olympics.On further investigation it would seem they are not the only one. £410m [...]
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March 18, 2008 at 11:03 am
OK just a quickie because its a pet peeve of mine. Charities DO NOT send loads of books of raffle tickets with 12 tickets in each at £1.00 a ticket. They do not sell. 50p is about right. I cant sell them at £1.00 each . Want a ticket ,they are a pound each-No . [...]
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March 11, 2008 at 10:46 am
After a lean month in February where I received nothing of note from any charities I received a letter from Help The Aged .
At first I thought it was a normal letter requesting funds for their latest project until a little piece of plastic fell out of the envelope.
At first I thought it had just [...]
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January 1, 2008 at 12:18 pm
The little letter arrived yesterday about its cruelty at Christmas appeal.
Basically it is a request for funds to help look after the many animals dumped through the festive period.
Enclosed was a photo of one such case . A cat dumped in a box by a busy road.
What makes this campaign good is the fact they [...]
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December 6, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Their Newsletter arrived today updating us on the three small steps campaign that I took part in a few months back.
Also enclosed with the latest campaign postcard (which I will complete later) was a questionnaire about which campaigns you were involved in and which issues the charity deals with and which ones you personally feel [...]
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December 6, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Received their winter newsletter today(I don’t remember subscribing to it but hey!).
On the front cover is a lovely grey pony so I flicked through it to see what its about.
In between the pages of happy smiling people and happy cases of successful rescues are some quite frankly horrific photographs of dead animals and their ‘alleged’ [...]
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