Charity Begins At Home

[poliphilo]

The RSPB sicced a very slick professional fundraiser onto me last night and I'm still fuming. I hate it that the charities have turned into corporate Goliaths- with swanky London HQs and highly rewarded CEOs. I can see why they've done it but I very much preferred them when they were Davids.

I was spinning off into a fantasy about how we could make money by turning the farm into a wildlife sanctuary and soliciting charitable donations and it was all coming along very nicely when Ailz shut me down because my mother was taking me seriously and getting agitated.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Are there any that don't?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

RNLI

Ethiopaid

GIRES

and others.


I have my pet charities! :o)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The first is lifeboats, right?

I don't recognise the others.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Yup, first is the lifeboats, my pet charity, who put well over 95% of their take back into lifeboats and their crews and all their people from the MD down are volunteers.

Ethiopaid is a medical charity which tries to undo the damage caused by FGM.

Gires- Gender Identity, Research and Education Society in which, for obvious reasons, I have a close personal interest. :o)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I also donate to RNLI and Ethiopaid, plus the Salvation Army. Oh, and the Air Ambulance, which is entirely funded by donations.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I got into Ethiopaid because my Meeting for Worship asked me to take that one on when we lived in London some years back and I'm still at it! :o)