Charity Fund Raising

[Miss Chicken]

A couple of weeks ago I arrived home to find my son talking to a lady at our door. It seems that this lady said she was a fundraiser from the Red Cross. She had tried to talk my son into signing up for a monthly direct debit. He had told her that he didn't have his account number as his mother handled his banking. He also told her that he was on a pension. It seems that she asked him for our phone number so that he could give her his account number when she rang back. He told her that his Mum wouldn't allow him to give out the phone number without him getting permission.

It seems that Red Cross Australia now pays a firm to do their fundraising. These fundraisers, to put it mildly, are pushy. Today their was a story in our local newspaper in which people were complaining that these fundraisers won't take cash donation, they are only interested in signing people up for direct debit.

Surely my son telling this woman that his Mum handles his money etc should have made her realised that he was disabled?

My mother makes a donation each year to certain charities. She wuill donation $100-200 depending of the charity. However, even though she says that the donation is for the year, they still ring up through the year asking for more. I believe that the people who ring up are also professional fundraisers.

Does this method of fundraising annoy you?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Door-to-door fundraising is pretty obnoxious; I'd just politely tell them to go away. And I screen all phone messages, so that doesn't bother me.

I give to a number of charities on a regular basis. Save The Children gets an automatic monthly payment from my credit card, and I give regularly to the Cousteau Society, the Planetary Society and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and irregularly to some others. Nevertheless, they are all always asking for more. It doesn't bother me, as long as they aren't pushy or intrusive, since raising money is one of their natural functions.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I once came home from work to find out my wife and 2 of her sisters had invited a complete stranger into the house and happily handed over their bank details to him. I asked them who he was and they didn't know, I checked the leaflets he'd left and it was for a charity organisation (can't remember which). I said to them if you didn't know who the guy was then why the feck did you let him in and hand over your bank details. They said because he asked them for it.
I went fecking ballistic, I couldn't believe the level of stupidity. The next day I marched her to the Bank and had the direct debit cancelled before any money could be taken out, luckily the guy they had given their bank details to was indeed working for the charity.
Not only did their stupidity royally piss me off but the fact the guy happily took bank details from 3 young women who were clearly oblivious to who he was or why he was there.