Anyone Else Sick of Charity Adverts on TV?
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They have been driving me potty for a year or so.
It's a continuous assault.
I used to give to the NSPCC and Amnesty International.
I was giving £2 a month to the NSPCC, but they kept on ringing me up. I was only getting £57 a week odd because I was ill, but they kept on and on at me whether I could increase my donation to £15 a month. I cancelled my direct debit in the end.
The RSPCA are the worst with their disgusting adverts. And they have over £100 million + which they won't spend.
What are your thoughts?
The adverts really annoy us especially when they're using the same advert for 10+ years. If what the kids must be adults by now. Sometimes you can get 2-3 adverts in the few minutes between programmes. My other half added up what the charities wanted in 1 hour once. Over £30 per month!!
look at all the directors and see how much they pay themselves they are money making gimmicks one example is wwf he pays himself £744000 per year then look at all the rest stop them all from adverts
Hadn't really thought about it to be honest. As we don't have much deposable cash right now we keep a charity bag on the go for regular donations.
Charities all love easily gullible people who have a moral and guilty conscience to help those less fortunate than themselves. Google each charity head office and their salary and expenses. Only then should "you" consider to contributing 25p x four charities per year.
They can ALL take a running jump for me, and as far as trailing for water in africa, move your hut nearer to the pond
I’m sick of tired of these charity adverts, I’ve to keep turning over when I see themI’m sick of tired of these charity adverts, I’ve to keep turning over when I see them
Instead of sending money and food to Afric, send contraception in some form. As that would ease the problem. They have no food, no health care, no future yet breed like rabbits. don’t get it. Bit like council estates here but our taxes give them handouts.
Yes the adverts can be very tedious but I understand that they need to advertise for some people to be aware or donate. But throughout the night/early hours of the morning it is constant.
I tend to try and give to smaller local charities. I have however done brave the shave a while back for Macmillan, as they really helped some friends, sadly not all of them made it. I also give when I can to friends and family who do things for charity, even if I can only afford a £1 or 2. I was sad to see that this year I gave to friends and family but barely any of those gave to my 100 skips a day for Cancer Research, which was a massive challenge for me considering I have some major health issues at the moment. I don't give to receive but a bit of support would have been nice.
I also took in animals as rescues are bursting, I asked people to donate items they no longer needed or wanted and if it was okay for me to sell them on. Yes it took a lot of time and effort but we managed to help quite a few animals and found them forever homes. I'd love to have my own small animal rescue in the future, but very sad that there is a need for so many.
If stores that sell animals encouraged people to rescue first and reduced the need of breeders, that would help massively.
I very rarely give money to anyone on the streets or in stores, a well known supermarket near me had a guy dressed as the Easter bunny and he was in the doorway collecting for 'charity' he took off with all the money, turned out he wasn't related to the charity at all. I tend to take the information from people collecting on the streets or doors, but say I will contact them directly to give if needs be. And I check them on the Gov website.
register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search
I also use Amazon Smile where I can and Easy Fundraising - both just do your usual shopping online but some sites will give cash back to a charity, although you obviously can't use it if you are using another cash back site for yourself. If you aren't part of Easy fundraising already, please ask someone for a referral code if you can, that will help yours and their chosen charities.
I no longer listen or watch these awful charity TV ads and it seems now the amounts they are asking for has increased a lot or they want sums of money left in peoples wills. i also have never seen a charity ad ask for money to help the young girls in places like Rotherham who are being abused by people of a different ethnic background. Even children in need on the woke BBC does not belong to them, give your money to small local charities in the area where you live and as for the RNLI they can go and do one and ask the illegals they pick up for a donation
Iv been approached by the monthly cost agencies a few times but I prefer to keep donating to charity shops as I know my items raise far more money than I could ever afford each month.
SaveMeSunday Did you know that for every £1 that goes through AgeUK shops, only 9p is given to charity?
TheChimp That's awful! My nan volunteers for a charity and sorts donations before they are sent to shops, she gets really annoyed that they pay people to put post items for sale online and the managers. She'd be fuming if she knew such a small amount actually went to helping people.
Find them disturbing. On some channels you see graphic image's every 15 minutes. I am all for charity but looking at disturbing image's so often can't be good for mental health 
won't watch channels with these ads anymore
Charity's are all scams, if the problem they are trying to end actually ends then they would be out of business. It's just another way to pray upon people!
It's very depressing to have to watch so many sad issues and I believe it actually takes a toll on the viewers perhaps indirectly causing misery to people struggling with their own depression. I tried working out how much money a person would donate if they responded to all of the requests for money but I actually lost count. There are way too many charity requests and they are very manipulative and coercive, they seem to target old people as well. Using actors who seriously over act is so artificial and reeks of it being just like any corporate business. I chose the PDSA as the charity that I donate time and money to, not exclusively but primarily. If everyone chose one charity to aid instead of lots of them I would expect a better outcome.
All charities are money making scams. Take Cancer Research for example, it is in there best interests to not find a cure, otherwise the charity will close for good. Yes they can say they have promosing research every few years, but that is too string people along. If you want to help people, do it directly but don't give cash to a charity!
TheChimp It doesn't surpise me, I once went for an interview at Bono from U2 charity in Central London. It was very fancy offices in Soho and they were paying alot for all their roles, they had no information on how the donations actually help people but it made Bono look good at least!
DMS1977 Totally agree. If a cure is found for cancer...then thousands of workers will be out of work and pharmaceutical companies will lose out big time. It is in the best interests for all these 'charities' NOT to find a cure. NEVER donate to these scammers....
I am depressed at the constant begging for money only give 30 pounds or 20’pounds then when you do it never stops I am an oap on basic pension who helps us it’s depressing every other advert it shouldn’t be allowed we are not responsible for the rest of the world please legislate against this never ending barrage of begging
I can't stand the scrounging of UNICEF,Oxfam and so on they have had millions given to them for years and they are no further forward which to me means the money is going in somebody's corrupt back pocket, and if you do donate they'll bug you with none stop calls to give them more, another reason they should be banned from advertising,they will never get any of my hard earned cash,I despise them so much.
adhater being an older member of society I have been around for decades of charity giving. I remember little envelopes being put in doors and then collected when you put your spare cash in. After all these years, as you rightly say, nothing seems to have changed or improved. Through adult eyes corrupted by corruption I often wonder whose pockets a percentage of those envelopes went in.
When i phoned RSPCA recorded message said most Urgent calls only
on TV advert it suggests otherwise.
I don't know whether I've said this before, but I watched a programme where they said that only 9p in every £1 was used towards charity for older people from Age UK shops. 9p, mind. Where's the other 91p per pound going?
Totally agree - my nieces in tears over cruelty to animal ads in the middle of Harry Potter . SICK
I understand that to charitable people my comment will be awful but I am convinced many of the images they show need not be so. The children with flies crawling round their eyes could be solved with a £1 pair of sunglasses and would also protect against cataracts, quick fix until they can get the operations. As for babies/kids drinking filthy water full of insects, could they not strain the water through a piece of material and then boil it. Even if they have no proper facilities. They must be able to learn these simple improvements.
Why aren't they given practical help as preventatives as well as money which never seems to get where it is needed.
Afraid my sympathy has worn thin. Begging adverts for sick donkeys never stop. I mute the ads now and do something else until programme comes back on. Not animals but I donated to Red Cross once and after that they wouldn’t leave me alone begging for more and more. Eventually they got the hint. I’m not made of money!
If they can advertise online or on tv they are making too much money. They NEVER tell you how the money is spent or how much goes to CEO's. I ignore all adverts. Once you are 'caught' then they will NEVER let go!
One of my favourite songs is being used by a cancer charity atm, so every time I listen to it from now on, I will think about the suffering of people.
Thank you very much, that's another thing in my life ruined for me because of TV charity adverts.
Delighted to come across these conversations. Im glad I’m not the only one who has had enough of sick donkeys, children going blind, bile bears, abused monkeys. All when trying to watch Sky News. I’m going to tackle the ASA. There are more of these ads on daytime television Mon-Fri clearly targeting older people who may be financially vulnerable to begin with. All they’ve done is make me immune to the suffering. Someone with mental health issues may be very affected. Watching Sky News on a Sunday morning, and the absence of these ads is apparent. Time we took action 
I just use the mute button and go do something else until it’s over. Completely immune to them now. If nothing has helped in the past decade it’s not going to now!
The ad about cleft lip and palate is particularly distressing. I am not unsympathetic but I wonder why so many of those children in the countries where it is filmed suffer from this. In my whole life I have only ever seen one child with this. It can't be caught, it is a birth defect so why are they not concentrating on prevention rather than cure and why is it so prevalent?
I mute/walk away from these adverts as they are designed to be emotionally distressing so that you feel guilt and donate money (most of which seems to boost the salary of the 'fat cat' in charge!)...
I suppose they have to show shocking images so that people will donate, however i have noticed lately that when im watching tv most of the adverts are for charities.
Has anyone seen the latest ad asking for money so kids with sight loss can get a letter from santa? I am fully sympathetic to children who lose their sight but it is one thing to donate to research into sight loss, quite another to set up a charity for letters from santa in Braille. These were not deprived children and I couldn't help thinking that it's surely not beyond a parents capability to read aloud a letter from Santa and explain that he is very busy this time of year but thank you for the letter. What's a little lie when we already tell the biggest one in that he even exists!
RSPCA wanting money But do nothing when you report an issue, we had a neighbour who treated there cats terribly, when we reported them, the RSPCA did absolutely nothing
YES...I have worked for charity in my time .not as hard up as they make out..spend your money on other important matters.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that there have been a lot more adverts being shown since 1st November? I watch TV throughout the day and there seems to be at least 2, sometimes 3 in every break. It looks like the charities have ramped up the frequency and are going for the Xmas guilt trip pound.
I just mute them or do something else. They are so repetitive anyway. Where is the money coming from for all the ads? I once gave to Red Cross and it was years before they stopped sending me more begging letters. Don’t feel guilty any more. If I want to give I’ll do it in my own way.
I agree, why do these charities expect volunteers to work all hours for free yet the fatcat CEO gets paid enough money plus bonus to do what? Most charities that advertise are big business.So why do we have to scrimp to give when I bet they don't give.
Do you know that some of these charities could solve the povity issue in this country. How many animals can be saved by the salary of the RSPCA.
These adverts are below the belt written by marketing experts using all the tricks under the Sun and new ploys like leaving money in your will, lotteries in ever increasing amounts asked by their sales people who get paid a good commission.
Adverts are so distressing, designed to make you feel bad. They wouldn't show even midly distressing adverts under normal circumstances SO WHY SHOW THESE Before the water shed where children watch tv.
Charities have to make their money but not this way, this is hypicritical, manipulative and outrageous.
Yes I do give to Charities but only after I checked them out and give only what I can afford and without sales pressure.
TV companies, actors, government etc need to look again at just how charities work.
I believe in Charity but not under this kind of pressure.
Sick of seeing the adverts and even more sickened after googling just how much the CEO's make from our favourite charities. They are a businesses and only have to give a tiny percentage to the good cause by law. I stopped giving money to charities altogether and I'm even reluctant to buy from charity shops since their prices have rocketed.
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