Just been cruelly woken up by a charity, that I have only donating for only 2 months. They asked the casual pleasantries before asking if I could donate more. The parasites.

My response was basically telling them to cancel my account, if my donation is not good enough then forget it.

I used to donate to RSPB for years and years. Until they backed down and coward away on campaigns about building on greenbelts.

They said houses need to be built etc. Whilst there is going to be only small plots of land, that's going to be used for nature, next to the new housing estates. The CEO's and managers of RSPB are being paid off by fat cats. Give it time the reserves will be built on or disturbed by the new house owners.

The Nugent Report from the 70s is interesting to read.

I picked up a few bits and bobs at a well known supermarket chain on Christmas Eve and charity collectors seemed to be around every aisle.

They were all from the local cubs/scout guides. It struck me as strange given what is going on in the world - I would have donated to Gaza or a homeless charity but the local scouts....really...

Local scout's raised money by doing community work and doing chores for people, in my day it was yard work.

Supermarket lobbies are full of charities like shopping centres now. I'm glad that chuggers are a thing of the passed.

I didn't mind throwing lose change in a bucket for air ambulance etc. Now it's monthly direct debits and giving details.

I do remember seeing scouts doing or military cadet's doing supermarket bagging to raise money. However I can do that myself, the old dolly dearest's loved it, when they put shopping in their bags for a donation.

I prefer giving money to charity shops, even if it's 10p in every pound goes to the cause. I get something I want or need cheaply. I can never have too many gilets or hiking equipment.

RSPCA are a charity worthy of donations. Left them something in my will.

Don't let them do operations, I have a heard a lot of botched surgeries on dogs.

I am glad that chuggers waste their time door knocking. Not many people open their doors unless it's a prior arrangement.

RSPCA did a wonderful surgery job on my cat when it fell out the window down 3 stories.Let me pay off the considerable bill over a year.

Captain Tom's fundraising stunk of BS from the beginning. He was not a Captain but the Queen made him one. I have no idea why he was raising money for the NHS when the public funds the NHS billions of pounds every year. Most of the nurses were doing nothing during the plandemic. We were told not to go to the hospital but to stay at home.

I have no idea if it's true, but someone in the pub told me that when he broke his arm during the lockdown, he overheard nurses discussing who turned it was to do the bin runs and talking about TikTok. He added that the wards were empty apart from those admitted before lockdown.

Let's not forget if you had cancer nurses put COVID-19 as the cause of death.

You never see collection buckets these days for charity, it's always people who want contact payment or direct debits. I am glad that people are not allowed to shake collection buckets these days. I don't mind taking old clothes to charity shops even if they go to the rag-man who pays about 20pence per kilo. Fast fashion is a problem because they are poor quality and they also shrink very quickly.

Charity shops also have way too many managers and the CEOs are not on a 28k after-tax salary.

I try and give to the local or regional charity shops not the big ones like Oxfam or BHF. Oxfam even tries to compete with record dealers or eBay sellers on records and CDs.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86qdq67dd5o

Not allowed to shake collection buckets these days? I better tell my carnival committee this, they still have plenty of buckets shaking at the public as the parade goes past. Never give to a collection bucket, the cash could go anywhere without proof.

Another thing I want to mention is these incessant plastic clothing and bric-a-brac bags that get put through letter boxes asking to be filled and left out. They never stop coming, sometimes a couple a day. Many are far from genuine. The fact that so many come through the door suggests that far from true charity, these are big business money makes for the companies that do it. What caused these begging bags to become a thing through doors a few years ago in the first place? I kept them and used them for other means but on a recent clearout still found a couple of hundred stuffed in the back of a cupboard, one for heart foundation had pushed about 40 through the door over time. I haven't even owned enough clothes in my entire lifetime to fill just their bags I should think.

Rich wrote:
Not allowed to shake collection buckets these days? I better tell my carnival committee this, they still have plenty of buckets shaking at the public as the parade goes past. Never give to a collection bucket, the cash could go anywhere without proof.

Another thing I want to mention is these incessant plastic clothing and bric-a-brac bags that get put through letter boxes asking to be filled and left out. They never stop coming, sometimes a couple a day. Many are far from genuine. The fact that so many come through the door suggests that far from true charity, these are big business money makes for the companies that do it. What caused these begging bags to become a thing through doors a few years ago in the first place? I kept them and used them for other means but on a recent clearout still found a couple of hundred stuffed in the back of a cupboard, one for heart foundation had pushed about 40 through the door over time. I haven't even owned enough clothes in my entire lifetime to fill just their bags I should think.

If the carnival committee is rattling a bucket you tell them straight, I used to do fundraising when I worked in a pub, there were guidelines we had to follow. I thought those donation bags were a thing of the past until recently when they came through the door. I use them for bin liners. I have never of the cancer charity before but they are registered. No doubt the drivers rummage through the bags. I have no idea where the bags go and how they are sorted out. Last week a neighbour filled up a bag and the delivery drivers yelled with glee like he had won the football pools. "That's got good stuff in there."