Why my seven year old will not be taking £1 to school for Comic Relief tomorrow.

[enfieldspares]

Finances and investments

Comic Relief spent £13.7m on staff costs, as well as additional redundancy costs of £39,000. Five members of staff earned more than £100,000 and the chief executive received £200,000, consisting of £176,000 salary and back payments totalling £24,000.

[Scully]

So are you going to offer to provide your services.....for nothing? 

[London Best]

Sounds like a typical charity.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

You make a good point.

Much charity is big business nowadays with the people at the frontline volunteering for no wage and fatcats reeping the benefits.

 

Charity my bottom!

[henry d]

Pay peanuts, what do you get?

"The accounts say that the charity saved £500,000 through automating backroom tasks, and another £250,000 by moving its donations platform in-house.

 

Its investment portfolio is worth just over £130m, and gains on that portfolio cover operational costs including staff salaries, office rent and fundraising costs."

[Rewulf]

7 minutes ago, henry d said:

Pay peanuts, what do you get?

Are you even allowed to say that anymore 

7 minutes ago, henry d said:

"The accounts say that the charity saved £500,000 through automating backroom tasks, and another £250,000 by moving its donations platform in-house.

It still spent 14 million £ on wages though , some of them very fat pay packets for people who likely dont DO a lot.
But nice attempt at deflection from the OPs point..as usual.

 

10 minutes ago, henry d said:

Its investment portfolio is worth just over £130m, and gains on that portfolio cover operational costs including staff salaries, office rent and fundraising costs."

And heres me thinking that money was to be spent helping people 
When in actuality , its 'invested' to pay staff and rent ?
Last time I worked for charity , thats exactly what it was , unpaid ...charity...
This is a JOB , working for a BUSINESS , and a pretty lucrative one at that, and as a charity , it wont pay taxes, nice !

[bruno22rf]

You forgot to mention the £117 million that Comic Relief in need hold in their account, anybody considering donating would be better off buying a red, white and blue nose from the Jim Davidson charity. Pop onto youtube and have a quick listen to Alex Belfield discussing the matter.

Edited March 18, 2021 by bruno22rf

[discobob]

17 minutes ago, bruno22rf said:

You forgot to mention the £117 million that children in need hold in their account, anybody considering donating would be better off buying a red, white and blue nose from the Jim Davidson charity. Pop onto youtube and have a quick listen to Alex Belfield discussing the matter.

I was going to suggest the same - luckily I am not working tomorrow - it could have been uncomfortable when I just went no when the bucket came round - I know where my donation is going!!!

[Vince Green]

a mate and I seriously discussed starting a charity about ten years back

It beats working for a living

[bottletopbill]

We need to help our own first stop giving money for water . Single girls forced to marry older men. Think of crippled solder's and let's look after our own of the streets and no asylum money.

Edited March 18, 2021 by bottletopbill

[TRINITY]

Was it Oxfam who,s staff were strong supporters of the local knocking shops out in Puerto rico

[Scully]

Ah well, looks like it’s just me donating then. 🙂

[London Best]

Well, they’ve never had a penny from me and nothing has changed.

You cannot support every charity. The only ones I support are the RNLI and The Gurkha Trust.and occasionally Cancer Research.

[Lloyd90]

Personally I’m shocked that they can’t find a CEO who can run a massive organisation, in charge of thousands of staff, organising events and different parts that are immensely complex, that is willing to work for minimum wage?! 
 

Surely there are LOADS of people out there with the skills and ability to run multi million pounds companies successfully and manage thousands of staff who don’t mind workout for £8.21 an hour?! 
 

Im sure many on here would be more than happy to go and work in far less complicated sectors and jobs with significantly less responsibility for £8.21 an hour wouldn’t they?! 
 

 

Hell, if they can’t find someone suitable qualified and skilled just stick any old numpty who is willing to work for £8.21 in charge?! 
 

What’s the worst that could happen? 🤷‍♂️ 
 

Running a company of that size is easy isn’t it?! 

Edited March 18, 2021 by Lloyd90

[The Heron]

I have a direct debit for the cancer charity and never fail to put money in for the air ambulance or mountain rescue but I can see where you are coming from. 

[TRINITY]

I dont know if it already happens. I think it would be a good idea for all of them to publish their actual yield. This being the actual percentage amount their good causes actually receive as a proportion of donations. The public could then gauge which ones were being run efficiently and which others were not. I have heard some only give about 10% of their donation to beneficiaries 

[strimmer_13]

Well I gave £2. Wouldn't normally I'll admit, but the boy wants a red nose for school so he's got one. 

[clangerman]

any charity with millions in the bank cannot have spent much on its so called good cause or they wouldn’t have one same old story when the money arrives morals leave 

[Scully]

35 minutes ago, strimmer_13 said:

Well I gave £2. Wouldn't normally I'll admit, but the boy wants a red nose for school so he's got one. 

Good for you. 👍

[enfieldspares]

1 hour ago, Lloyd90 said:

Personally I’m shocked that they can’t find a CEO who can run a massive organisation, in charge of thousands of staff, organising events and different parts that are immensely complex, that is willing to work for minimum wage?! 
 

Comic Relief. £200,000 for the CEO? Heck that's more than the Prime Minster is paid. What exactly does a charity do that needs someone to be paid at the same level as the CEO of a manufacturing industry, an insurance business, a logistics company?

What "risk" does a charity have in terms of wrong levels of stock, fluctuations in energy prices affecting its manufacturing costs, changes in the law on the safety features of products, possible lawsuits for faulty products or costs of product recalls?

And what other of these other multi million pound organisations have any (say three or four) of their frontline staff in every one of their face to face retail shops (that AFAR also pay no business rates)  working free for no salary, no employer's workplace pension obligations, no employer's national insurance contributions, obligations on statutory sick pay, maternity pay and etc., etc.?

[Lloyd90]

7 minutes ago, enfieldspares said:

Comic Relief. £200,000 for the CEO? Heck that's more than the Prime Minster is paid. What exactly does a charity do that needs someone to be paid at the same level as the CEO of a manufacturing industry, an insurance business, a logistics company?

What "risk" does a charity have in terms of wrong levels of stock, fluctuations in energy prices affecting its manufacturing costs, changes in the law on the safety features of products, possible lawsuits for faulty products or costs of product recalls?

And what other of these other multi million pound organisations have any (say three or four) of their frontline staff in every one of their face to face retail shops (that AFAR also pay no business rates)  working free for no salary, no employer's workplace pension obligations, no employer's national insurance contributions, obligations on statutory sick pay, maternity pay and etc., etc.?

Why don’t you write to them and ask them? 🤷‍♂️

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, there are 4  shops in my area all for the same Charity , all have a manager the rest are volunteers and I kid you not 3 CEOs 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

32 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, there are 4  shops in my area all for the same Charity , all have a manager the rest are volunteers and I kid you not 3 CEOs 

But according to Lloyd they are all needed and worth every penny!

[oldypigeonpopper]

15 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

But according to Lloyd they are all needed and worth every penny!

Hello, yes it where I get my bargains 🤔😀 new moleskin trousers and tattersall shirt £5 each

Edited March 18, 2021 by oldypigeonpopper

[Lloyd90]

2 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, there are 4  shops in my area all for the same Charity , all have a manager the rest are volunteers and I kid you not 3 CEOs 

Why would an individual shop have a CEO?