As ever, last week, just after payday, settled to write my usual quota of charity cheques.  As i try to send them out on a rota, when i looked through my charity folder there were no envelopes for charities for which i had not given to in the last 3 months.

So i consulted my notebook and found there are 7 charities at least to which i have given frequently in the past, and would happily continue so to do on a regular basis who have dumped me.  They never write they never call – was it something i said? They found out i was giving to other charities perhaps?

Then i looked at the whole notebook and, looking only at those  to whom i have donated since  my last change of address, found  9 charities who never wrote back ever. You would think they would have seized on me with a glad cry, added to me a database for regular contact, even if they were only out for one thing.

In both categories i worry that charities are in an ever decreasing spiral of falling income. If government funding is curtailed, people have less money to give, and charities cannot afford to ask for donations in the old way, then things can only get worser.

Time to get with the modern age perhaps cuddle upon the wonderweb.

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