Charity says no to money

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Bespoke Car Design

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    Have to say I'm shocked. Ive offered a charity £1000.00 as part of the sale from the 1st car we are building. Cheque ready to be sent.

    They said.

    Sorry we cant accept the donation unless you can provide 3 years worth of accounts.

    Amazing, next they will be doing credit checks to give them money.:eek:
     
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    Bespoke Car Design said:
    Have to say I'm shocked. Ive offered a charity £1000.00 as part of the sale from the 1st car we are building. Cheque ready to be sent.

    They said.

    Sorry we cant accept the donation unless you can provide 3 years worth of accounts.

    Amazing, next they will be doing credit checks to give them money.:eek:
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    Just send the cheque! They can either cash it or destroy the cheque...
     
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    simonr

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    I used to be a charity fundraiser (for a short while). It may very well be that the person who said this is concerned about the long term PR effect (and thus the long term funderaising/credibility) of the charity if it's "seen to be" associated with some funders. Thus they'll have protected themselves by having a rule that blah, blah, blah. The application is silly but the idea behind it is sound in principle.

    It might sound odd, I know, but the charity has to think about it's long term position. Suppose that by accepting £1k off you, they knew they could not longer get £1k per month of your competitors.... obviously they'd (have to) turn your money down. Silly example but I'm sure you get the idea.

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    PS: All of this is just guess-work, of course: they might just be stupid! :)
     
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    I wonder if the above replies shed light on why 15 years ago, my family tried to give £2K to Wizzkidz to help fund a kids electric wheelchair and got told on the the intial phone enquiry by the Charity - "£2000 is rather alot of money to donate you know" (I can still remember those words now)

    work that one out:|
     
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    Had a similar thing happen. We tried to arrange a regular donation to charity and were told that we would need to commit at least 20k over the year to be associated with them. Ridiculous in my opinion. We naughtily worked a way around it.

    If you're reading charity, I'm so sorry for supporting you. Sue me.
     
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    No Idea about the charity work, but those cars you make are stunning mate. I used to make cars with incredible engines, like popping 2.5V6 engines into a Nova, 2.9V6 engine bored out to 3.1 and thrown into a Sierra for kids. I then helped my friends father recon old Alphas out of fibre glass, but nothing like you do there.

    Not sure if you can see this or not
    http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=49192&id=529965951
    There are some images there of one of the monsters.

    VERY VERY JELOUSE OF YOU ;)
     
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    BarryM

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    It can be a real minefield getting involved with charities.

    My own company had several thousand branded umbrellas and I approached a number of charities and said that we would supply umbrellas to venues like restaurants, hairdresers, bars etc and all they had to do was go out and collect the money. Not one was able or willing to do so. They had plenty of staff to "work" in their chaity shops, but none able to to go out and pick up/account for money being left in boxes.

    We ended up doing two campaigns - one for British Red Cross and one for Great Ormond St. What struck me was how members of the public would gladly take an umbrella where a suggested min. donation of £2 was clearly marked with the name of the charity (the same unbranded .umbrellas are sold in leading retailers at £10 + ea) - and leave an average of 40p /umbrella.

    Overall raised circa £3000 for them. The PR was worthwhile as we are quite visible now whenever it rains in Notting Hill ....Fulham.....Kensington etc with around 8000 umbrellas out there!
     
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    Bespoke Car Design

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    Thanks :p we work hard hehe

    da8iwr said:
    No Idea about the charity work, but those cars you make are stunning mate. I used to make cars with incredible engines, like popping 2.5V6 engines into a Nova, 2.9V6 engine bored out to 3.1 and thrown into a Sierra for kids. I then helped my friends father recon old Alphas out of fibre glass, but nothing like you do there.

    Not sure if you can see this or not
    http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=49192&id=529965951
    There are some images there of one of the monsters.

    VERY VERY JELOUSE OF YOU ;)
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  • #17
    This does strike me as odd, maybe a case of charities getting too big to be effective. I will be creating an entrepreneurial charity to help people in third world economies in the next few years. I will make sure we are open to all donations.

    At the end of the day it is the people who are in need of those funds that are loosing out. £1000 could make a real difference to a lot of lives if used well. Maybe try the smaller charities in future, you may get a better more personal response rather than political.
     
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    Bespoke Car Design

  • #19
    Not yet, Its Cancer Research I wanted to donate to as I have had a few family members die from it. Also I was watching aprogram on sky about a little girl who had cancer. She was 8. Extreme Makeover Home Edition. They built her a perfect house but she died. I have 3 daughters so its something I wanted to donate to each month. BUT they said NO. Crazy world we live in

    streetslocal said:
    Hi,
    Did you manage to donate to anybody in the end?

    If not please consider

    http://www.justgiving.com/streetslocal

    This appeal is an amazing cause and does alot of work and needs help.

    Please consider helping childrens such as my son Euan!:)
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    Barnie

  • #20
    indeed crazy but there is so much money in charities now they play the upper hand, they arent charities any more the are business's

    have you seen how much race for life turns over, its quite staggering and i would be interested to see the payroll of some of these charities

    the oxfam people who ask you for money in the street are on around £8/hour :eek:



    my advice would be to find a small niche local charity, they are the ones who really need it and would be most grateful
     
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    JamieM

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  • #26
    Faith28 said:
    Well this is an opportunity for some PR...maybe send out a press release to get publicity over this! Haha..sorry I just can't help but see it as a story in the paper..charity rejects charity!!!
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    I think they just need to approve companies they work with. If it was a free for all they could easily be exploited. I can understand their position really, you just need to find another way to donate the money.
     
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  • #28
    Well it is all about people thinking charities are laid back and somewhat unprofessional companies... in fact the standard is higher. I think they worry about money laundering: the account audits and taking their trustee responsibilities too serious and getting the wrong end of the stick.

    I don't disagree about them not letting you donate money, as it would cause problems if they money had to be recovered if it was dodgy, even though charities typically have a large reserve for these things, but 3 years accounts is a joke!
     
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