March 9, 2010 at 3:15 pm
After my last post regarding the RSPB’s support for the Robin Hood Tax, I have just read the following story and feel it’s about time this charity got a grip. This is an outrageous persecution of a clearly honest man just doing his job.
JournalLive – News – Todays News – Auctioneer charged over wild birds [...]
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February 10, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Watching the lunch time news I spot rent a quote actor (Bill Nighy) spouting on that the answer to the country’s problems is to increase the taxes on UK banks. I’m not sure how increasing tax on these organisations, who will only pass the additional costs onto their customers (most of us) or cut [...]
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January 15, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Crikey is it really over a year since I was last here!.
Like most who have seen the news reports of the Haitian catastrophe, my instinctive reaction was to reach for the mouse with payment card to hand.
Over the past few years – the Tsunmai, Darfur atc. I have gone straight to the DEC site and [...]
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November 7, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I’m a big Radio 4 listener so Friday mornings mean Desert Island Discs. It was an interesting programme this morning’s guest was Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty , an organisation whose work I admire in defending our individual liberties against the authoritarian tendencies of the current government.
Rather late in the programme she mentioned that Liberty was [...]
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October 3, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I don’t appear to have a lot of discretionary money for one off charity donations these days. This is not because of the credit crunch, just that over the past few years regular giving has gradually taken up most of what I can offer. The sum that’s now left after the regulars tends to go [...]
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July 8, 2008 at 5:54 pm
The annual report season is upon us.
I seem to receive as many glossies these days from my regular charities as I do from those institutions supposedly looking after my finances. I have a random sample in front of me and thought I would share my thoughts on these;
Village Aid – a small local charity to which [...]
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March 18, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Whilst I appreciate that existing supporters are an important source of new funds for most charities, there comes a point that being constantly badgered for extra cash may lead the supporter to question their continued support for that organisation. I have reached this point with the Woodland Trust.
Over the past two weeks I have received [...]
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December 24, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I know it’s fashionable to decry Christmas cards for the cost and waste, but I do enjoy receiving them. I even enjoy the enclosed circular letters from old university friends telling me of their wonderful lives and gifted children.
From a quick perusal of the cards around me it would appear that charity cards now dominate, I may be [...]
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November 16, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Warchild works with former child soldiers and others affected by a conflict in many of the world’s main war zones.
A minnow by comparison with the British Legion it also has been running an extremely effective campaign. In Warchild’s case to support its ongoing work in Iraq, where it is the only child protection agency working in [...]
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November 14, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I have been struck by the effectiveness of this year’s Poppy Appeal.
The poster campaign and the involvement in the press launch of a young war widow and the 22 year old vetran blinded in Iraq gave this campaign (for me at least)an immediacy that others may have lacked. It felt that an important shift has started, as [...]
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