Now that just takes the biscuit

[shezz]

I often donate to charity always have done, i have DD going out each month to cancer research, and to our local air ambulance.

So when the Heart Research Institute rung up about 3 months agao about a raffle they were holding

I went ahead and brought a book at 10.00 per book.

Tonight out of the blue i gets a phone call thanking me for buying the tickets and that the draw will be taking place this friday only i could increase my chances if i buy another 3/4 books


Told them sorry but i'm skint and dont get paid again till xmas eve


Well what do you know, i go in my emails and talk about throw it in your face, i have an email from them, email content is just there logo

but the title of the email

made me really annoyed and doubt i will enter next year when they phone up and guess they will


Raffle NON Sale‏

From: hri@insightfundraising.org You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junkSent:15 December 2009 19:54:26To: cherylmimms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

cheek of it

[ejean9]

im lost..they emailed you to say you hadnt bought any ?

[shezz]

thats what it looks like, and in bold

[ejean9]

thats what it looks like, and in bold

i would email back with a stern "how very dare you"

[astral276]

What happened to the good old days when charities were grateful for a few pence in little envelope? Nowadays they want a minimum donation paid on a regular basis - preferably by direct debit.

Too many charities outsource their fund raising nowadays as well. All these bags for clothing that drop through your door (on an almost daily basis) are not from the charity named but from a company collecting in the name of the charity. Too much is being creamed off before the money generated get to a charity. I know fund raising costs and a charity would have to meet those costs if they did it themselves but it just feels too 'commercialised' now.

[CarnoustieCats]

Sounds terrible but I am getting meaner as I get older - Lifeboat of course, and choose some local ones - but some of these 'biggies' are so arrogant and seem to think they are due something cos 'it is for charity'

[cornishmaid1961]

I get really cross when I donate to a charity and then they bombard you with mail begging for more.

I like to support lots of different charities but there are a couple where I have sent a donation and the amount of stuff they have sent me afterwards must have used up the entire amount I sent to them in the first place ! They are both large well known charities too I'm afraid they won't be getting any more from me.

My donations will be going somewhere where I know it won't all be used on admin' and will be used to actually help people !

[buttons-and-bows]

I don't like being accosted in the street or being phoned when I am having my evening meal.

[CarnoustieCats]

If they stand smiling with their tin in the street I give - but it they shake the tin in my face ohhhhhh where I would love to stick it....

[tonyreddevil]

Remember some of these charities Have Leaders Sometimes( "Who Are Fat Cat Fund Raisers")