Save the Children? SAVE YOUR MONEY INSTEAD! Grrr!

[5129frederick]

Today's Daily Mail ran an interesting article on Neil Kinnock & Co. giving the reasons why he is so much against the reasons for pulling out of the EC.  How, since having been made a Lord he has been lording it up almost as much as Bliar with the Kinnocks pulling in not one, but SIX different pensions.  

However that is not what caught my eye.  His son Steven married a Danish MP who lost her job last year.  Short of a few bob she managed to land herself the position of London based Chief Executive of Save the Children.  Has nothing to do with the fact that she married into the Kinnock Dynesty, has it?  No doubt she felt it was a worthy cause, one close to her heart.  Nice little earner, too.

It comes with a salary of just short of - you wait for this:

£240,000.00 p.a.  

That's right.  Not too short of a quarter of a million pounds per year when you take into account all the perks that go with it.  That's one hell of a big bite out of a cherry and that's just ONE person's salary!  It caused such a stink the charity was forced to issue a statement in order to try to justify the expenditure.

You want to help the save the children?  Fine.  Buy a few packets of crisps or some bananas.  God help anybody shaking a tin under my nose in the name of charity!

[captainbovine]

I'm getting a bit fed up of all these charities that are now trying to get you to text £5, seems they keep taking the £5 every month if you don't cancel right away.....

You never hear of these rich people, footballers, famous types, etc putting their hands in their pockets, do you?

[bitsnknots]

We are always saying that CB.  It's ridiculous.  

[hightara]

so true

did have a chukkle at my sons expense............ he was waiting on a friend............buying goods.

now this son.. ..... is tee-tootal....

a lady passed by and threw money in his coffee.

random post but It still makes me .......... Bah ha ha

[5129frederick]

A few years back I had a professional fundraiser pester me in the street raising money for XYZ Charity.  For want of nothing better to do I listened to the well presented speech which they had to learn parrot-fashion, said with all the conviction of the patter that comes out of a secondhand car salesman.  Finally after he had had his say and was ready to take all the necessary details off me, I commented on his conviction.

"This is obviously a matter close to your heart.  Whatever you're donating per month, I'll do the same."  He snatched the paper out of my hand and accused me of being a time waster!  

Spoiler

[cee-dee]

Have a read of this?:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36498061

[5129frederick]

Just read it - all in the name of charity.

[5129frederick]

It's a known fact that before anything get's put up on the shelves, it's looked at carefully by those in the shop first.  Anything worth having is 'bought' there and then and never reaches the clothes rail.  You'll then find it up for sale on ebay three weeks later at a higher price.  What can be done?  Absolutely nothing.  Because it has been paid for nothing has been done in a clandestine manner - technically.  It's just one step away from a ring and, like a ring, it's nigh on impossible to prove.

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@captainbovine wrote:

I'm getting a bit fed up of all these charities that are now trying to get you to text £5, seems they keep taking the £5 every month if you don't cancel right away.....

You never hear of these rich people, footballers, famous types, etc putting their hands in their pockets, do you?

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I don't know about the other groups you mention but it is unfair to include footballers, (and football fans for that matter), amongst those who don't 'put their hands in their pockets').

Most, if not all, professional footballers are heavily involved in one charity or another and/or take part in community projects.

Criticise them however much you like for their behaviour but this is one area where in general criticism is not justified.

[upthecreekyetagain]

That article got it absolutely right - why do we in the West buy so much then 'throw it away' whilst it is still useable?

Having thrown stuff away it's a bit rich to then criticise someone who recognises it still has value - charity shops, (and other recycling projects), are as much a sop to our conscience as they are a sign of our good intentions.

[5129frederick]

Personally I throw nothing away when it comes to clothes.  On the very rare occasions I go out for a meal, I'll wear the same suit as I did at my wedding thirty-seven years ago and, dare I say it, because I look after it, it still looks the same and feels the same as it did in March 79.  Better still is the fact that flairs are now making a come-back so I'll be "with it" once again - oldest swinger in town!  I've also got cable stitch tank tops.  Like Princess Anne with her clothes and hairstyle, why change?

[capt-james-locker]

this is the same charity or should I call it big business that gave Tony Blair of all people an award for helping children, you just couldnt make it up.