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At the hospital today there were folk collecting for a childrens charity......nearly contributed but something told me not to.

Half hour before youngest discharged..i was queuing for a coffee and loads of police arrived and arrested them.

NEVER take the word of the collectors and always ask to see proof...... there are despicable people everywhere.

So glad I trusted my instinct.

Please don't go on anything but cast iron proof.

Horrible way to be..but there ARE shysters out there x

sad but true Muffy

I never give to charities who phone and ask for credit card details. They must get some unwary people.

I remember the "tin rattlers" - every Friday lunchtime. Give to one...... but impossible to give to all of them. Some of the collectors got quite abusive.

as you say, sad but true. You can't support every charity so now I only support fund raising by family members and/or their children and one or two specififc national or local charities that I am interested in. Money doesn't stretch so far these days.

When my mother died I stayed in her house for about a week to sort things out.

Several times every day I got a phone call from a charity. They all said "sorry to hear about your mother, she was such a good supporter of us".

After a few days I was getting angry!

My mother was a soft touch, she often said she tried to help charities, because some people had so little and she had so much. Mum was on a pension, she wasn't rich, but she was generous.

Too generous.

I wonder what she went without, so that she could give the money to charity!

I don't think mum had the heart to say "NO" to any of them.

These days, we give locally, to ones that aren't subsidised by the government. I don't donate money to phone callers... and WE decide who we give to.

We used to have a collection tin for a local childrens' charity in reception and in the bar at the hotel.

They had booked their annual Christmas meal with me and 8 people attended and they spent money like it was going out of fashion. This raised quite a few eyebrows,

6 months later the 2 people who ran the charity were charged with misappropriation of funds!!! Thankfully it was published in the local newspapers when they admitted the charge.

When I remembered all the kind people giving money I was raging that those funds just paid for a jolly for selfish people.

That's awful Scozz.

. I NEVER do the door to door ones ...and we seem to get a lot of those here and sometimes on the phone I've found the ones wanting you to do the envelopes etc can be a bit pushy..but then I'm not easily pushed lol...but I can imagine some feeling quite pushed into it....I don't get cross though because they are just doing their job.

I think the ones that set themselves up to look genuine but aren't are just horrible because if i have a bit of change after buying a coffee I don't mind throwing it into a pot for a genuine charity....but I think that being as it was bank holiday they felt the could get away with it maybe because the hospital def had a dif feel yesterday to other days lately I've been there x

We have had the leaflets through the door asking to donate clothe/bedding/all things that could be sold as rags or sorted through.
It said they were collecting for an Air Ambulance in England.

I took the leaflet to a friend that collects for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and is genuine.
She rang the Air Ambulance Administator that she knows and took the leaflet to them.
It has turned out it is a scam big time and the police are now involved bringing the people in to charge them..

An article was in the Evening Post last week warning people that if they get leaflets through the door please report it to the police.

Its disgusting that people can use Hospital corridors and phones to con people .

Sue

In the UK, by law, those collecting for charity by this method are not allowed to shake their tins.

I ignore all leaflets and bags that come through the door. I don't give out my bank details to chuggers either, who are paid for doing what they do. I do give to a charity of my choice by dd and if I have any change I'll stick some in the occasional collecting tin that I see.

There are over 160,000 registered charities in England and Wales. There's no way that you can donate to all of them and they're all 'good causes' so the "It's for charity." that some trot out doesn't wash with me.

i would like to warn people on GR about secret pms
asking for money these may not be genuine causes
so only pay into charity bank accounts
not by some body saying
please send money for this that and another
i have fell for this myself and so have some of my friends

GR do not allow collections on this site
with out their consent and then it will say so on the thread

not everybody who says they are doing charity work are telling the truth

@Joy...I actually had an indepth conversation with someone doing that several years ago on here & they couldnt say exactly what the money was for & when pushed became rather unpleasant. They got nothing off me.

We get a lot of bags through the door & it's worth reading the small print to find the country of origin,they often sound like a UK Charity & are not (btw I don't have a problem giving money to overseas when I know what it is).

With there being so many causes I have cut the number I support but I wish I could do more especially when I see the ads on TV with children it is so heartbreaking.

i myself are a lot more careful
what and who i believe these days Carla

if its an honest collection GR will SOMETIMES allow it
if things have to be secret there's usually a reason
and its not always a truthful one BEWARE

Pms - asking for money .....What a liberty!! how awful is that....*shocked*

I totally agree with you JBA., regarding charity bank accounts much safer and honest way......

l always check the bags that come through the door on line with the charity registration website....which is very very rare now and never put money in a box in the street. l have recently started to donate on line to a charity l have been involved with for some years, any others l donate too in the shops and sell raffle tickets for 2 others.l never put things in those big bins now.

Its become a very easy way for some to make money, sadly:(((

jude :-|

Re: Raffle Tickets...check how much is going to the actual charity, I bought one last week & on reading the small print really wish I hadnt, the organisers are making a handsome profit.

Re.Re: Raffle Tickets-I was so happy when my son left school & I didn't end up having to buy them myself cause living in a small town the chances of selling them on were zilch.