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?
I'm a huge animal lover and rescue animals but hate RSPCA with a passion. They are despicable the way they treat animals and as you said, have millions in the bank. Anyone who is CEO of a charity and pays themselves £1.6m salary needs a wake up call.
It's the charity beggars that accost you in the street or knock on your door that I abhor. They've recently started running at you in the street saying 'hey you look friendly' at which point I normally direct them to the local opticians. I have no problem giving to charity and donate a lot but to charities I am happy with, not some multi million pound organisation that guilt trip people
I am also an animal lover and agree with everything you say about the RSPCA it is a scandal that they are allowed to keep the ROYAL part of their name.
Regarding those in the street who try to get people to donate by direct debit - it will take a few years before any of the money will ever get to the charity because of their commission, I've noticed some who are working for different charities on different days of the week. They should be banned or at the very least be instructed not to target the elderly, as it's obvious most do. They'll always start off with some flattering remark and are little short of "conpersons" (We must always remain politically correct and gender neutral)
TheChimp Actually that figure is incorrect (and can not be validated) so let's not argue and just agree to say he is paid TOO MUCH.
This from about 18 months ago quotes £150K
TheChimp That's the most recent available somewhere, more recent, said no one receives more than £200K annually - we all dream of a salary like that. . . and having a slim wife
davidstockport and TheChimp the salary is on the charities commission page on their latest accounts. The area managers are on about 200k. I've done years of research on them as part of something else. Their accounts make interesting reading. But then they are a Royal charity and their patron is known for her love of hunting so fits quite well with their ethos. Speak to any smaller animal charity and hardly any will have a good word to say about them. Especially when they ask the smaller charities who are in huge debt normally, to take some of their 'rescues'
Twollocks I can't find it the most recent I could find June 2018 says "But the charity’s salary for its chief executive – the highest paid member of staff – is only £150,000". - See more at: https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/rspca-accounts-show-pay-out-of-almost-200-000-to-executive.html#sthash.deV2rIOy.dpuf
Will you post a link to the Charities Commission account stating £6 million? I'd like to have it as I am disgusted at the way the "charity" operates. From what I already know they work independently of the CPS, and abuse that power. They've outlived their usefulness.
davidstockport £1.6m not 6m. It states it on the latest accounts which are for fiscal year 2018 (think it goes up to October) there is a salary breakdown, with the amount of employees that fall into that bracket and the highest bracket is over the £150,000 you mention. Because of the change of CEO and it only being recorded for the latest ones salary, that is only 2 months salary at the time of the auditable accounts, each branch also pays an amount to the CEO as a 'salary'. If I get a chance later I will screenshot the part where it states it, as its a PDF I can't post a link unfortunately.
On a side note I found the amount of calls received to the ratio of investigations carried out is an interesting read too.
Totally agree with you, they are useless to.Have called them to help a sick homeless cat, and they told me they don’t help in cases like that and to take him to the vet.As a disable person I wonder how they expected me to rescue the poor cat, luckily a vet lady helped and took him in.Since then I stopped donating.
Twollocks I just pretend I'm on my phone whenever I see them Chuggers. They don't hassle you then.
Carlton1512 We don't get Chuggers around here.
Was terrible when we were living in the town.
There's an another charity I wanted to give to after seeing an advert for £2 a month, but when you go to their website, they make you feel like a piece of s*it unless you donate £12.50 a month.
Twollocks as with everything when some people are trying to do something good there will always be some who will benefit and find selfish motives to fill their pockets
Twollocks They wont tackle the travellers and the way they treat their animals, bunch of cowards. They won't attend difficult jobs, they even told me that travellers horses don't need water as they are used to going without.
Twollocks My goodness I am appalled this is something I wasn’t aware of thank you for bringing light to it!!
The likes of Gary Lineker asking people to donate money, when he is on a £1.75mil salary.
I am sure people like this could donate more rather than just be a ‘face’ for the charity.
Fancy having the cheek to get paid to be the face of a charity, I'd like to know IF he actually donated anything himself and if so how much and finally was it proportionate to his income; £5 from me would be equivalent to perhaps £50,000+ from him if you go by income. 
£1.75million - that's nothing! It will only take about eleven and a half thousand over 75 year olds being made to pay the BBC for a licence to cover that, if there aren't that many left - after the Covid-19 crisis, he might have to take a pay cut, but please don't worry too much Gary will still have the revenue from his Walkers Crisp adverts, on the other side, to keep the wolf from the door.
davidstockport the BBC are corrupt and it is ridiculous that they even have a licence fee, let alone for the over 75s! They are corrupt!
AliceBell64468 At least they're no longer supplying Rolls Royce cars every year for people like Jimmy Savile . How they justify the salaries they pay though is beyond belief,
davidstockport yes that is one thing however they still provide £200 a day chauffeuring for Dan Water who is a BBC presenter, already on a £250k annual salary, but still needs our money to spend on travel 
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7794575/amp/BBC-spends-200-day-chauffeuring-Breakfast-host-Dan-Walker-Sheffield-home.html you can read more about that ridiculous story here. But I agree, I don’t know how they can justify the salaries and the expenses that they claim!
AliceBell64468 totally agree with these smug arsehole so called celebs the likes of linker, lilly Allen, jude law, ewan mcgregor. All preach to us what We should be doing but they don't do it themselves and then they go back to their multi million pound ivory towers..
AliceBell64468 ...Dan Walker who lives in Sheffield & had an accident on his cycle a few month back..
Don't know why they chauffeur Dan from Sheffield to Manchester when they could save that money..
Sick of the sight of Gary Lineker...
The bigger the organisation, the more scandalous it is at the top. Have worked for charities in the past and I won’t be doing it again. The amount they waste on marketing alone...and all their ‘parties’ which they call ‘fundraisers’...
hspexy ...Yes,I have given £100 on my late Nephew's Anniversary, Birthday & Christmas to MIND for last 4 years since he died but I'm concentrating on our FAMILY now..x
I will continue to give to charity but local ones just like my partner who has started to do the same..
I won't give to any charity that begs. I will not be forced into giving away my hard earned money. Do not approach me in the street and take the adverts off my TV - I'm sure I'm not the only person who won't give anything to those charities who spend an absolute fortune making tv ads, they should re-direct all that wasted money. (If you have got money for ads, you've got too much money already!) A voluntary donation is another thing entirely.
I know this is an old comment but I too wonder how much tv adverts cost them. I hate the Omaze ads and that gushing, grinning woman beseeching us to buy tickets to win a £3million house, and a car 'if we enter by Sunday'!
Most people who fall for this must wonder how much is left after paying for the house and car, apparently only a few pennies from your lottery ticket actually goes to the charity.
Lynibis ...Absolutely DETEST those adverts, who wants an house that size anyway, I don't. The woman is sooo smarmy as my late Mum would say!
janphoenix51 Yes, there is definitely something OTT about that lady. I think most people would end up selling the house and buying something a little more modest so they can use the profit to live. Mind you, I might rent out to a celebrity for 10k a week as they often pay that for a day or two in a posh hotel!
Lynibis....Yes you're right there,that is one way of making the house work for you!
I believe most of the big charities that advertise on TV are nothing short of a disgrace. Directors paid fortunes, bully tactics to get people to pay more and very rarely see actual projects they've done. They also pay celebrities well to advert for them too. Personally I stick to my local charities
RnD194hd ...Totally agree with you there, at least you know the money is going somewhere you know & local people will benefit..
Yes, I feel like sometimes it’s emotional blackmail. Some of the images they show are horrific
I would never give a bean to the Royal Society for the Payment of Charity Administrators. Any charity who kills the animals they are so say protecting should be prosecuted in the same manner they do to joe public.
Give these fu*kers 50p and they will hound you til you sign over your house.
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Watch TV? Jeez, I can't remember the last time I did that. All they ever broadcast is junk.
I wondered why the RSPCA is split into so many different charities, seems like a ploy for hiding their financial details. Looks like 263 charities using the RSPCA branding. A bit like a franchise operation. I couldn't see a national RSPCA charity and filtered for income and the largest income was for the Bath region. There may be reasons for it though maybe RSPCA centres have to generate their income locally but then how does it work when you donate, do donations in a local area only get used locally?
Personally when I see 'Royal' in the front of an animal organisation it just seems a bit of a farce anyway with many past Royals fox hunting. You don't expect people connected to blood sports to be linked to animal welfare.
I don't go out of my way to support the RSPCA but have donated and bought from their charity shops. My only grievance was I bought a small zipped bag from the RSPCA charity shop in Somerton and when I got it home in some of the small inner pockets were a large quantity of prescription tablets which I thought was very dangerous as a child could have bought the bag and possibly died if taking these tablets thinking they were sweets. I contacted the shop via email twice but never got a reply but hopefully they took my advice that they needed to check donated items more thoroughly.
I hate charity adverts, as someone else pointed out we have 'so called stars' who earn enormous amounts of money. If everyone gave donations on a 'pro-rata to income' basis they would have to give a million to my £5. However, IF they give anything- - which I doubt - they are probably paid instead - it would probably equate to me donating 5p.
I won't give anything to companies who try and tug on my heart strings - it just works in completely the opposite way.
I'm sick of them to rspca charity ones abroad salvation army xmas and new year xmas adverts too many of them they just want your money. I think the government needs to crack down on these adverts
I record everything I want to watch, I can't do live TV and I threw my radio away as just ads much more peaceful now, hooray for Netflix!!!
You say you RECORD EVERYTHING a licence is required to record television. although not required to watch a recording.
If you meant you record the download before watching that should be OK without a licence.
You do not require a licence for radio - even if listening to BBC stations. So no need to have thrown the radio away.
jwhitaker537 I had thought your actions were to legally avoid having a TV licence, these threads can be confusing. I'm even more confused now static caravans require a TV licence (if transmitted television watched or recorded) - but not for watching Netflix. Touring caravans are often covered by main home licence.
To say people living on a caravan park are exempt might mislead others, if main residence or address a licence is required.
The bit that really annoys me with these adverts is they are telling you how much to donate and trying to tie people into monthly payments, and once they have your details some pester you throughout the year for more . They should be happy to receive whatever people wish to give.
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