Is anyone supporting Movember for Rich & Matty

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80sglory

November 1, 2012, 12:18am

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Quoted from Neilo83

I was always up for donating to charity etc but after a recent episode that happened to me i learnt a few things.

A) Keep your money to yourself u never know when u might need it.
B) Charity really does start at home.
C) Always look after #1 because it really is true that you cant trust anybody.

Sympathies go to you if you've been the victim of misfortune.

But let's maybe keep it in perspective mate, there's nothing wrong with showing a tiny bit of support for a good cause while having a laugh.

Put it this way I'm pretty skint but would hope even if I'm only able to chip in a quid [???] (ok I MIGHT stretch to 2) then it's better than nothing.
I mean the chances are, I probably won't miss it.

Suppose the problem is there's bloody LOADS of charities out there and you can't give (even small) to everyone.
So for that reason I'm backing this initiative (and sod the rest !)
Only joking...

PS I mean joking about telling them to sod off not giving to them all...

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November 1, 2012, 9:59am

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Quoted from Southwark Mariner

when i donate, I like to look at how a charity spends its money. I don't see the point in giving my £10 etc if the charity has income far exceeding expenditure eg I read in the GT about a lady being conned into buying a vacuum cleaner and is wanting to sell it to raise cash for a donkey charity called Bransby's Home of Rest for Horses. That charity each year has income of about 4million and spends less than 3million and has about £35million in assets. What that lady's cash will do is sit in a bank earning interest. Anyway...

Each charity has a charity number. Put that into the charity commission and you get its details.

Here's that horse charity:
http://www.charity-commission......p;SubsidiaryNumber=0

Here's the John Hartson Foundation if you're interested:
http://www.charity-commission......p;SubsidiaryNumber=0
Their accounts:
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends49%5C0001135549_ac_20120331_e_c.pdf

I find these really interesting. I always thought that Charity patrons put their name to a charity because of their beliefs. But it looks like John Hartson got expenses for his time of £18k. Is that normal? given that only a third of that was actually spent on awareness campaigns?

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