Chugging
"For just £5 you can provide an African village with clean water"

Really, so for every hour you spend on the street making people pretend they weren't planning on walking near you, the £5 (*) you get paid by the charity stops a village from keeping sanitary standards that would go a long way to preventing disease?"

For every £30 you collect the £5 (*)that goes to the chugmasters keeps an african village from getting clean drinking water they desperately need.

For every £20 you collect the £5 wastage caused by the money going to an inefficient, chugger using charity - instead of a charity where more of the money gets to those in need - means that poor african children grow up never knowing what the word 'sploosh' means.
(Chugger-using charities generally operate closer to the minimum figure of 51% of the income actually going to causes, other charities are, on average, better at passing money on (**) probably because they aren't run by advertising execs and management types, I dunno)

If you donate directly more of the money gets to where you want it to. So (using a logical concept known as 'really pushing it') chuggers cause water shortages (***) and make citizens of the countries they claim to be collecting for.

Give money to charity directly, not to genocidal poopyheads.


(*) source: numbers I pulled out of my arse but think are probably vaguely correct
(**) source: a thing I read on the internet by some body that reviews charities with a view to transparency, but sadly I lost the link to that's bloody annoying.
(***)also heart disease, ageing and cancer.
(teebie jeebie, Fri 28 May 2010, 16:28, 3 replies)

I wholeheartedly agree.

( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Fri 28 May 2010, 17:20, closed)

Dubious fucking practice full stop
A friend of my Ex ran a charity mugger agency and wound it down, walking away with a five-figure sum. Something not quite right about that.
(Tont Tont Tont, Fri 28 May 2010, 17:43, closed)

the bane of oxford circus they are.
Best thing is to ask why they never considered volunteering for the charity in question instead, if they have so much "passion" about the cause...
(piggy, Mon 31 May 2010, 18:54, closed)