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Theres been a charity collecting in a local toystore for a few weeks - it had posters about helping disabled kids (which suspicious bugger that I am always rings alarm bells for me) so I took down the charity registration.
I looked it up and it actually is registered but has only this month posted its accounts for the financial year ending April 2008! They are red flagged on the registry because thats 8 months after the ten month deadline for charities to post accounts.
So then I took a look at the accounts and tbh they are pretty damning - they took in nearly 49,000 in that year but spent less than 2,500 on charitable grants.
So if you gave them a pound for those poor disabled kiddies only 5p of it may eventually reach them assuming they are actually reporting the true amounts received...
4% was in the account at the end of the year which means 91% was gobbled up by admin costs/running the charity.
Pick your charities with care folks!
I looked it up and it actually is registered but has only this month posted its accounts for the financial year ending April 2008! They are red flagged on the registry because thats 8 months after the ten month deadline for charities to post accounts.
So then I took a look at the accounts and tbh they are pretty damning - they took in nearly 49,000 in that year but spent less than 2,500 on charitable grants.
So if you gave them a pound for those poor disabled kiddies only 5p of it may eventually reach them assuming they are actually reporting the true amounts received...
4% was in the account at the end of the year which means 91% was gobbled up by admin costs/running the charity.
Pick your charities with care folks!