I want to donate monthly to a donkey charity, but need reassurance that most of my donation will go to the donkeys and not to admin' etc!

[Ming the Merciless]

Don Quixote spends all your donations on drugs, sex and rock and roll.

 

[matticus]

The Donkey Sanctuary is doing quite well, suffice to say. Lucky donkeys, even if it cost £14.24m to raise those funds.

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Would that be enough to pay for next year's ITV4 coverage of Le Tour?

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just signed up to give a monthly £20.50 to World Animal Protection UK. Just signing up to donate has given me a sense of wellbeing, so it helps me as well as poor abused animals!!❤️

 

[Chislenko]

I've just signed up to give a monthly £20.50 to World Animal Protection UK. Just signing up to donate has given me a sense of wellbeing, so it helps me as well as poor abused animals!!❤️

I bet the CEO is rubbing his hands in glee.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I bet the CEO is rubbing his hands in glee.

How cynical! If we all thought like that the animals would get no help whatsoever! According to their statement of intent, 75% goes to the animals, 25% goes to fundraising etc. I'm happy with my chosen to do so donation to help the plight of poor animals! Unlike my have to pay by law tax donations to such as Labour's expected dropping of the two child maximum benefits handouts to those who will now knock out endless feckless sprogs by the bucket full! Knowing that the likes of me are paying for them!!🧐👎

 

[gbb]

At the beginning of this post, speaking for myself, I'd become a bit jaded with the idea that charities have been hijacked by big wage CEOs but... reading some charities split on donations, you realise they really are in some cases massive organisations with the need to adhere to legal and financial regulations/obligations etc etc. You then realised you simply can't have any reasonable sized charity run by Stan Bloggs from his front room to minimise the running costs, its simply not feasible (added without that oversight, even more prone to abuse of funds)

 

[Bonefish Blues]

How cynical! If we all thought like that the animals would get no help whatsoever! According to their statement of intent, 75% goes to the animals, 25% goes to fundraising etc. I'm happy with my chosen to do so donation to help the plight of poor animals! Unlike my have to pay by law tax donations to such as Labour's expected dropping of the two child maximum benefits handouts to those who will now knock out endless feckless sprogs by the bucket full! Knowing that the likes of me are paying for them!!🧐👎

OTOH it's those offspring who are needed to continue to pay your pension as the UK ages. The UK birthrate falls well below what's needed to maintain numbers. Or we can utilise immigration, of course. Or we continue to gently decline.
Tough choices and all that...

 

[dicko]

My late Mother loved to visit to Folley’s Farm home of rest for Donkeys and Ponies and when she passed away she asked me to made a generous donation to them in her name.

 

[Chislenko]

How cynical! If we all thought like that the animals would get no help whatsoever! According to their statement of intent, 75% goes to the animals, 25% goes to fundraising etc. I'm happy with my chosen to do so donation to help the plight of poor animals! Unlike my have to pay by law tax donations to such as Labour's expected dropping of the two child maximum benefits handouts to those who will now knock out endless feckless sprogs by the bucket full! Knowing that the likes of me are paying for them!!🧐👎

Each to their own Accy. For a bit of balance each month we buy a load of cat and dog food for a local lady who takes in and cares for stray / abandoned cats and dogs. Doing it that way we are sure the help is getting to where it should be.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ok this is maybe a bit NACA-ish, but here goes.

Charities are businesses that have legitimate running costs, and cost of fund raising is one of them. Wringing your hands and saying "but I want all of my donation to go to helping whatever it is" misses this point. You do that and the charity will soon collapse. Maybe it will suffer a data breach due to IT underinvestment and your details will be leaked. Maybe donations will just dry up due to lack of publicity. Similarly, outrage that someone takes payment for doing something for a charity is generally misplaced.

Going back to the 90s I did some work for a charity. My employer at the time treated them just like any client. We made a healthy profit on the project and the client was happy and ended up with what they wanted, which made them more competitive with other charities in the "wringing money out of donors" business.

 

[gbb]

Ok this is maybe a bit NACA-ish, but here goes.

Charities are businesses that have legitimate running costs, and cost of fund raising is one of them. Wringing your hands and saying "but I want all of my donation to go to helping whatever it is" misses this point. You do that and the charity will soon collapse. Maybe it will suffer a data breach due to IT underinvestment and your details will be leaked. Maybe donations will just dry up due to lack of publicity. Similarly, outrage that someone takes payment for doing something for a charity is generally misplaced.

Going back to the 90s I did some work for a charity. My employer at the time treated them just like any client. We made a healthy profit on the project and the client was happy and ended up with what they wanted, which made them more competitive with other charities in the "wringing money out of donors" business.

And that's the conclusion I came to, at the end of the day, its a business and needs to be run as such.
My wife spent 3 weeks in a Sue Ryder hospice, completely free of charge to us and (afaik) the NHS. Accommodation and all it's unseen costs, maintenance, heating, everything, food, 24/7 nursing proper nurses, medical equipment, it must be eye wateringly expensive to run...and yet they do and apparently flourish. I assume it's run in a very complex.manner with infinitely more.money coming in than you realise, donations, perhaps tax payers money, fund raising, corporate stuff etc etc etc. It's a blooming BIG compkex business I could imagine....and it's changed my attitude of 'I'm not supporting some bigwig taking a huge chunk of.money from the charity'
I dont think like that anymore...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Each to their own Accy. For a bit of balance each month we buy a load of cat and dog food for a local lady who takes in and cares for stray / abandoned cats and dogs. Doing it that way we are sure the help is getting to where it should be.

Fair enough, but in general, cats and dogs are well cared for in civilised countries, but pigs have horrible lives even in so called civilised countries. Unless they are the odd ones rescued from slaughter living in sanctuaries. I'd prefer my donation to go to pigs more than anything, well apart from donkeys, but seeing as someone told me loads of money is given to donkey charities I'd like to at least give a bit of comfort to pigs which are 6 times more intelligent than dogs! And no, I don't eat bacon, pork or any other meat. I haven't eaten meat for must be going on for a year now. Yes, every now and then I still fancy a bacon butty, but watching the many pop up without warning videos of pig slaughter, cruelty etc on Facebook that urge to eat their flesh quickly disappears!

 

[Drago]

I've heard the CEO of the charity smacks the donkey.

 

[stephec]

I've heard the CEO of the charity smacks the donkey.

You don't want to know what goes on at monkey charities.