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What are your views on TV Charity Begging Adverts?

Over a number of years there has and even more lately been endless adverts asking for money, from children through to animals and onto water and so on. Of course there are many reasons to give money but are we the only ones in England constantly being asked to give money even for other countries through out the world , even in disasters, I too willingly send money to the British Red Cross who do a marvellous job, where I know my donation will get to the most needy of people. But my main concern is why doesn't the governments of some of these countries try and help their own people instead of people here in England constantly being bombarded with begging adverts, what are your views regarding TV begging adverts, and at tea time too?


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Chrisdearnley
1st Oct 2022 10:08:24 (Last activity: 1st Oct 2022 10:16:10)
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I so totally agree with the above comment. Why do we raise millions for children in need and then get adverts asking for anti-biotics at three pounds a day for children with pneumonia. Do we not give enough, and if not helping these children then where has all the money gone? It seems to me that we are the prime targets in this country at making you feel bad. We are all in crisis mode ourselves at this moment in time and need every penny for ourselves ATM!
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Madam Didymus
3rd Sep 2022 19:11:10 (Last activity: 5th Sep 2022 11:10:05)
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Hi Zac32, what annoys me most is that the ceo and many other top bosses of these charities have telephone number wages. Yet they fund their charities by begging money from ordinary people on relatively low wages usually. I don't believe we should turn away from these images, at least in theory, even though they are difficult to watch. Having said that, no one turns them off more quickly than me. The ads make me cry every time.
Response from BarbaraW12 made on 4th Sep 2022 17:42:20
I agree with you Madam Didymus - I do turn away from these ads also. Not because I don't believe in the various charities, but I just get so tired of it. If I wanted to donate, then I would. I don't need an ad to make me feel sad, so therefore, I'll contribute. That's annoying and somehow disingenuous. When I worked and had more income, I gave to many causes. Now that I have much less money to work with, I have to be very careful. When I've donated in the past, the charity either sells or gives (probably sells) my information to other charities and I get flooded with mail requests, and I don't appreciate that at all!
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Response from Madam Didymus made on 5th Sep 2022 11:10:05 > @BarbaraW12
Thank you for your reply BarbaraW12. I too used to give regular donations to charities when I was working. I stopped giving to Amnesty international when I heard of the secret pay off scandal to former chiefs amounting to £300,000, which was a lot of money in 2009 when it happened. Would you believe when I stopped the payments a call centre working on behalf of Amnesty kept trying to reinstate me. A man described a very upsetting human rights breach in a foreign country in explicit detail in order to pressurise me to donate again. My husband was furious. It upset me for days. He wanted to complain. Perhaps I should have. If these top bosses were payed less millions more people could be helped. It is completely insane. No wonder ordinary people resent handing over their hard earned cash to fund some ceos luxury lifestyle.
Cessna
4th Jul 2022 09:32:46 (Last activity: 3rd Sep 2022 21:57:50)
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Surely the ads for cancer research should be directed to the British Govt., and the one for water to african villages directed to the water companies that are making huge profits. ipe lines to African villages.. These should be directed to
Response from Madam Didymus made on 3rd Sep 2022 21:57:50
I agree about the cancer adds. Do we need constant reminders of the illness we may well end up with? The adds are far too frequent, and the words "one in 3 people will get cancer in their lifetime".......I look around the room and think which one of is will it be?
KennaLynn
17th Jul 2022 17:57:27
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Hi Zak,

It is not a problem that is directed only at England, Here in the states it is on all our TV channels - dogs, elephants, water, food for Holocaust survivors, cancer, all kinds of things. As you called them, begging adverts. Many are also for other countries. And here it is always $19 a month they want. What is it with that particular number anyway? I don't get it.
Jockyboy
25th Jun 2022 19:13:27
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I too am fed up with these adverts! We gave millions with live aid and it seems to have made no difference at all! Surely the governments of these countries could supply water at least! And what about the millions that blm got in donations to help black people! Lenny Henry dosent help by saying white saviours are not welcome! So I’m white and from now on I will only give to animal charities!!
jet2001974
12th Jun 2022 13:25:44
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How many many billions of UK £££s have the African continent had in support for say just water aid since the 1960s? they could have built pipe lines to every village and every home every street every were in Africa and swimming pools in every town including a nice home for everyone there....yet they have progressed ZERO! what a con! whoever gets this money does not want it to stop......the uk is the main target for cons and swindles and beggars from that continent....those getting the money will never change and will never stop laughing at us!
Jockyboy
1st May 2022 17:43:13 (Last activity: 12th May 2022 12:17:00)
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Yes I am sick fed up with the constant begging for water or eye operations or helping young girls from married men! We’re are blm? Where is all the money from the charity shops that are in our high streets by the hundreds going? The bosses of these charities are on very high salaries paid for by the donars who think every penny goes to help the needy when in fact one pence out of a pound goes!! Most of the governments in these countries are corrupt so aid money never reaches the poor! Why doesn’t india pass a law preventing old men marrying young girls? It’s child abuse!
Response from BRBob made on 12th May 2022 12:17:00
The Government six years ago said it would stop sending foreign aid to India
FCDO’s development budget to India will rise to £55.3million in 2021/22.
Why are we giving money to a country with nuclear power and a space industry?
All charity money in aid of children should be spent on sterilisation and contraception, that would put an end to the begging.
I give voluntary donations to the RNLI and the Poppy Appeal.
Hedgewitch1
2nd May 2022 10:42:36 (Last activity: 2nd May 2022 12:39:31)
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I personally think they should be banned. We never used to have adverts like these. It also includes funeral directors too
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JackieBrown
23rd May 2020 20:32:24 (Last activity: 8th Mar 2022 10:27:05)
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Just watched an ad from Save The Children wanting £3 to treat a child with pneumonia.
Their CEO earns £230,104 pa and 386 other staff earn £60,000+ pa.
Just the CEO's salary alone could treat 76,701 children.
Their annual income is £981.9 million.
With that amount of money coming in each year, why are children still suffering and why do they still need us to ante up more cash all the time.
Truth is, the majority of money goes on salaries and admin. The proportion that actually reaches children is small by comparison.
Much better to give money to local charities, like foodbanks, as I do. (The fact that we need foodbanks in this country is another scandal by itself.)
Response from WHT made on 14th Feb 2022 15:55:02
Quite agree JackieBrown.

Understand that the advertising is national but like you say is the top hierachy that get the benefit. Is so much money that goes on 'admin' or 'ceo' costs. Charity is exactly that 'Charity' I feel that the people who do run the charities should do that job for 'half the price of their salary/wage'.
Other thing that bugs me is there is NEVER EVER any update on what has been done in what country etc; how much raised, How much needed. But for the general joe bloggs we are expected to just blindly 'GIVE GIVE GIVE'.

Also the fact that once you start giving to a charity ie: £3 a month the next month it's give £5 and so on and so forth. If I was to give £3 to every charity that asked I'd be 6ft under!
Response from BRBob made on 8th Mar 2022 10:27:05 > @WHT
Every child you save by feeding is saved for breeding!
£3 this year will be £30 in 20 years time, spend the money on contraception and sterilisation, problem solved.
ChrisJ3
13th Jun 2019 11:04:43 (Last activity: 8th Mar 2022 10:22:32)
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Yes there are to many charity adds on both radio and television. Its always the same a tearful child or a hobbling along with deformed hooves. What a good percentage of the general public are unaware of is the amount that these CEO's receive. A lot of charity workers who give their time free and who work hard to supplement the CEO's salary. Most earn more than the Prime Minister for instance NSPCC £162000 and Cancer research £240000. I wonder how many Ladies who run and give their time to these charities know exactly how much is being bleed from the Charity they are supporting. It is now time for the Charity Commission to clamp down on them but as they have already admitted it is now out of control.
Response from livelongandprosper made on 10th Dec 2019 11:07:06
Here here. I agree wholeheartedly with what you say. We are being bombarded with begging on TV and radio. Won't be long till they keep popping up on our phones
Response from WHT made on 14th Feb 2022 16:08:38 > @livelongandprosper
I'm so sick of adverts on phone, tv. When they pop up on tv I mute them.
Response from BRBob made on 8th Mar 2022 10:22:32 > @WHT
I mute every advert as they re all unwanted!
purpleocelot
16th Jan 2022 01:25:10 (Last activity: 14th Feb 2022 15:26:13)
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I don't give money willy nilly. Not that I have much to give. But I think people who beg for it don't deserve it.

Look at the MILLIONS of dollars/pounds they spend on advertisements, actors, commercials, speakers, billboards, news ad's, etc..... WHY aren't they putting all that money into their charity.......IF it really is a charity.

The fundamental fact of charities is, 95% of the money they take in goes for "administration costs". This money is governed by the executive level, and THEY are the ones that dole out the money for projects and such, while stuffing most of this money into their private bank accounts. The other 5% goes for paid employees, offices, and less that 1% goes to the actual people, places, or causes they advertise for.

If you want to give to a charity, make SURE you investigate it fully before handing over any money to it.

As for their adverts being saturated in the media.........this should tell you EXACTLY where the money is going to.
Response from WHT made on 14th Feb 2022 15:26:13
STANDING APPLAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WilliamB46
30th Jan 2022 20:32:30 (Last activity: 31st Jan 2022 08:27:21)
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Same 10yr old scrounging adverts, absolutely sick of the lies.
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5th Nov 2021 07:11:33 (Last activity: 10th Jan 2022 10:13:22)
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Response from WHT made on 10th Jan 2022 10:13:22
Yes exactly! The ''pressure people feel'' as that is the whole concept of the ad - to pressurise you into giving. Is the reason I don't. I do believe that countries are in need but I don't believe their propaganda tactics.
WHT
9th Jan 2022 19:17:36 (Last activity: 10th Jan 2022 10:08:20)
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I MUTE the tv! Simple. If you were to sign up and donate to every ad for charity then you'd not have anything left to live on. To me it's a legitimate scam. Advertising has never been so good. All the more reason for you to keep your head on your shoulders when it comes to donating. Have you ever checked out how much the admin get to what the actual % is that goes to the cause? Think you would rethink to what and how you donated.
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Lindilly
16th Dec 2021 16:44:11
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I used to be employed by a charity who ran daycare centres for the elderly.
The elderly day care users were charged a fortune for these services and I was disgusted to find out how much the office staff at both local and and head office level were paid. The people who actually worked at the centres were not paid very much at all. If this happened in the charity I worked for what happens in all the others?
I now work as a volunteer in a charity shop which is great fun for me and does good for others too.
MargaretF379
6th Dec 2021 00:46:35 (Last activity: 6th Dec 2021 22:01:43)
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I well remember a friend who had given to cancer research by direct debit for quite a few years, out of the blue she received a phone call from cancer research asking if she could put the amount up from £5 per month to £20.my friend replied sorry I can not afford it you see I have been off work as I have been having treatment as I have breast cancer, to which the women replied well shall I phone in a couple of months you might be back at work . At this my friend was so livid she hung up went on her bank account and cancelled direct debit. Me ? I ignore all the adverts I stick to helping my friends out and the British legion
Response from PurpleHat made on 6th Dec 2021 22:01:43
I totally agree, fund-raising tactics such as this are counter-productive. I have cancelled Direct Debits for the same reason, asking for more and more, or unreasonable amounts beyond ones purse.
Not2grey
22nd Oct 2021 13:09:00
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I actually turn the TV over when I see these ads ( it's like Charity Porn looking at the suffering of others )
Before the advert the should be forced to display the Pay of the chief executives of the Chairty concerned and how much of peoples donations actually reach the people concerned .

I now prefer to help local charities staffed by volunteers.
Jockyboy
5th Oct 2021 11:34:46 (Last activity: 5th Oct 2021 16:20:46)
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I’m fed up with being called a white saviour so now I refuse to give to charity plus the fact the salaries the managers receive is disgusting
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PurpleHat
30th Sep 2021 17:10:27
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I , too, have hardened myself ,and grown to disregard almost all of the begging ads now, in fact I have had to write to some organisations and tell them to stop mailing me as it is getting too much. My purse is limited . I will not be made to feel guilty all the time I have worked for what I have, and give what I can.
I have my chosen Charities which I regularly support, but I do not want unsolicited packs of Christmas cards, Fluffy toys, more literature and Photographs I would rather the money this costs is used for the purposes I gave it. This will not make me give more, rather it will stop me from giving as it seems wasteful. A small thankyou letter once a year is plenty.
Supersabre
1st Jul 2021 15:30:24 (Last activity: 27th Sep 2021 15:47:41)
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For my part, I would close down DFID. But, before it closed, I would despatch every civil servant employed there, around this country. To every hospice and charity, that can and do save the NHS and government billions every year. And help thousands of people. And give them a share of the £14 billion. And also that other obscene waste, HS2.. And take all charity, gambling, and funeral ads off TV.
About time, the people of this country came first.
Response from anneridgway made on 27th Sep 2021 11:59:50
I totally agree that all the charity, gambling and funeral ads should be removed from the box; also that people living here should come first for a change.
Response from Supersabre made on 27th Sep 2021 15:47:41 > @anneridgway
Hello Anne, as for my self, I only support the Battle of Britain memorial flight, and the salvation army. And the local hospice that does such wonderful work.
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