I feel completely ripped off when I discover that my charity is being plundered by so called management types and their so called admin costs!

As a consequence I make sure that I am giving What I can to an organisation who matches my charity with some of their own, namely in volunteer administration. i.e. doctors without borders? And we seem to stand out as a country were those with the least are the most generous?

I think that charity should begin at home and should wherever possible circumvent traditional agencies and their almost inevitable admin costs; but particularly those super wealthy "political" organizations, who reap a veritable fortune from rich estates and wills!

And that conduct commercial enterprises, using volunteer labor and who the compete unfairly with other commercial organisations who have to pay wages and tax!

For mine that means I give more directly to those who cross my path that I can help directly, without any of it skimmed off by mealy mouthed "bagmen"!?

I really like the idea we had of adopting a hand to mouth pensioner or some other cruelly disadvantaged person, and let them know it's Xmas.

A better outcome than some deserted and completely alone old lady, being dead in her apartment for over a fortnight; and only noticed because the stink of the rotting corpse finally alerted, couldn't give a rats neighbors, to the fact that she was no longer with us?People die prematurely for the reason they no longer have anything to live for?

I mean we seem to be going in the other direction and stealing from the most disadvantage and from megre money in some cases squirreled away for years to pay for their funeral?

What does that say about us,and can anybody go lower than that?
Rhrosty.

When I receive land line phone calls from people wanting charity donations, I often use an argument that government social security would provide charity organisations all the funding required. That people hired to collect charity donations have merely been given a job. That any collected charity donations won't be forwarded to charities. Collected moneys will be go into government balance sheets.

Charity collections receive money from people who can afford to part with money. Charities are an ideal why to remove spending money from people who can afford to part with money.

This argument, using charity needs limited ability to collect money, and that charity organisations can be corrupt having too much money or poor, unable to provide services, allows ideas that charities are controlled by unknown government funding budgets.

I could argue that some ruling class control, inventing money out of nothing exists to support charities. Unusual to hear of charities going bankrupt.