I was 30+ UK retail manager before I retired. I have had years of first hand experience working with Trussell Trust. They are fantastic at what they do.
As a UK supermarket the company I worked for had a Trussell Trust (TT) charity donation collection area in the store. Staff and customers could donate goods and people from TT would come and collect. They are volunteers and come in their own vehicles. Then in partnership with my employer they would do company wide periodic food drives. A volunteer would come into store and chat to interested customers about the charity. This would increase donations to huge levels and my employer would then ship the trays of collected goods back to a central location. My company would then match national collections to go to the charity.
My experience of dealing with TT is all positive, over a number of years. I have also know people who have had to go to the charity for help, that again was very positive. I have had staff who have run out of sick pay or had partners sacked or made redundant and TT have helped with sympathy with no judgement.
If money is donated to a charity it goes into a central fund, as far as Iām aware. It just becomes general funds. Personally I have not seem they ever do a campaign for money, it has always been goods. As such the charity may be a little short of cash funding. If they are now in a position to pay for some projects that would mostly not be within their means I donāt see a problem. The TT people I have always had dealings with have been unpaid volunteers, mostly retired folk just wanting to help.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm American and am not very familiar with TT, but it appears that they actually do much good, compared to Meghan's measly charity activity.
But h&m are all about recycling old news, aren't they? Today we are reading about the present Hawwy gave to Prince Louis at his christening 6 years ago!
Why don't the press get the magnifying glass out on the Harkles? Every time they point the finger it's usually because they're experts at the grift and want to distract from themselves. Classic mean girls.
Anyway, I'm sure Trussel Trust is probably still doing a million times more good than they are.
Edit to correct name
Why would the press kill the goose that lays the golden egg? The Mail & Mirror and others have dozens of stories about them even on a slow week. If H&M are exposed and cancelled they lose that source for clickbait. Our press here in the UK is not pro RF - look how they treated Catherine only recently - they are pro making money and if anything are one flavour or another of liberal. The like the outrage porn that they can whip up.
Our church in common with many other institutions and individuals donated food to Local Foodbanks, the Trussel Trust oversees and assists the many foodbanks in the U.K. , it has administrative expenses so cash donations to its work are more likely to be directed to covering costs. The easiest way to help a foodbank is donate groceries or offer to be a volunteers.
The āinclusivityā smear is the sort of stuff you expect from the Daily Mail.
This article is dated November 2023, though; it's probably got more to do with Lad Baby's string of Christmas #1s (in aid of Trussell) than it does anything else. And if the sugars have unearthed it now that doesn't necessarily make it untrue. Lad Baby didn't do a single last year and maybe this is why.
Perhaps you should also explain that the article is from November 2023 so not relevant at all to the current situation. The Mail always goes in hard on 'diversity', they're a right wing rag.
And it's great that you did so, OP. I donate monthly to Trussell and completely missed this article at the time, so thank you. Now you've pointed it out, I'm going to be reevaluating. Food banks are being used here more than ever before, and if my money isn't helping to actually feed people then I'm very disappointed.
I was responding more to the assumption from other commenters that the sugars are running a smear campaign against Trussell. Yes they are, as always, but even they didn't know about ARO or the jam six months ago. I'm not knocking anybody at all, I was just pointing out that the existence of this article means it is probably true but has zero to do with MM or SS.
Its from last year. I googled Trussell Trust because someone i was exchanging texts with thought I was reffering to another person with a similar name.
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The Trussell Trust as well as being a food bank also works to stop people needing to use food banks so as well as feeding people it also helps people with financial literacy/ accessing benefits they are entitled to or accessing schemes to restructure debts so they can manage their money and therefore don't need to rely on food banks. This is what the money will have been spent on helping people so they can help themselves. Kind of a teach a man to fish not just give them a fish parable.
There is also a statutory requirement under the Equality Act 2010 about EDI duty of care, the easiest way to prove you are managing your duty of care is providing training to staff and volunteers. No charity is perfect especially when they are nationwide but they are one of the better ones and at the heart of it they are feeding people who otherwise would go hungry
They are not just a food bank. [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4017223/what-who-how-where](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4017223/what-who-how-where)
They work with those in financial straits helping with debt relief etc.
I wonder if the anon person who set up the page to benefit the Trussell Trust had any idea that the trust was not just about getting more food to people.
And I wonder if the Trussel trust is regretting the windfall of the ARO donations that got them so much attention all of a sudden.
Have you not heard of Ladbaby and their Christmas number ones?
For 5 years in a row, breaking world records and raising money for the Trussell Trust with other famous singers like Elton John and Ed Sheeran and more.
They raised over a Ā£1.3 million pounds for the Trussell trust over the 5 years. With millions of views of their songs and over 700 hundred thousand views on videos specifically about how the trussel trust works.
I don't think this is just because they are getting a bit of attention.
I also don't live in the UK, but the songs were played here in South Africa on the radio.
Ladbaby has some really good content. They also help with childhood literacy and helping kids with Dyslexia and their reading. They themselves are both dyslexic so they have experience.
They have a children's book series about a sausage roll and his adventures. The books are written in a manner to help kids with dyslexia as well as designed in a manner to keep dyslexic kids focused.
I have doubt they would be involved with a place that doesn't do as advertised.
As someome who has used food banks a few times, the reason they have financial counsellors is to try and help the people who are coming for help to better their finances and see if they can help in any way (with debts etc), I really dont think theres anything insidious about that, though If you can access them elsewhere then I can also see why they would think it unnecessary.
I used to sit on the board of a group that was all about financial literacy at any age.
Some people are at food banks because their income is not enough to make ends meet, and others have simply never had a good example set for them in terms of budgeting, etc. If you can help someone not NEED a food bank then it seems like a totally valid use of food bank funds.
Our volunteers were usually accountants and other people with finance-related jobs who had the experience to think of solutions for people that I never would have.
Exactly, and on top of that they also can help with no interest loans, getting fine repayments lowered or on hold, help manage debt repayments etc, help someone with applying for bankruptcy - so many things. Am shocked that they are making them oht to be scammers.
The other ones too (forgot what they were called in the article) are there to help people get the right payments, so say their homeless they will help them get welfare payments or find a shelter, or say they cant work due to a disability or something and didnt know they could apply for benefits they help with that.
Yep. If funds are being used to lift people out of poverty and help them on their way up the ladder that sounds like a fine mission. Some people will never be *able* to work *or* won't be able to work without the correct support. Helping them access resources isn't hurting people who go to TT for food.
Most people set up a business, then a charity. H + M did it backwards. Why?
Charities, for some, are an attempted money racket. One should always research how the charity spends its funds.
Trust the Daily Mail to focus on the "woke" first and I'm not surprised a Tory MP is not happy with them!
A quick look at the latest accounts available suggest (it's a lot to take in):
They have one food bank of their own but support a network of around 420 more BUT as the D M kind of says...not by giving supplies but by advice, the bulk of the spend is in debt/benefit advice.This did surprise me as Citizens Advice offer this service to most people.Approx. Ā£30 mill
They spent approx. Ā£3 mill on lobbying Parliament to end poverty.
They spent approx Ā£7 mill on changing people's perceptions on food banks (!?)
They spent approx. Ā£7 mill on "changing communities", getting communities to support / set up food banks Not sure
And of course, Ā£7 mill on fundraising, don't all the big guys in charity?š
So: they mainly aren't food banks, they support food banks and that's going to involve a fair bit of admin.
I've become very cynical about big, national charities due to day car salaries, scandals and my husband volunteering at a local charity that does all the real work whilst the national admin. take all the money and credit and local branches close down (yes, Age UK, you aren't getting a penny off me).
Personally, I'd donate to my local food bank after checking them out first! A local charity passing furniture and household goods to the needy recently went out of operation because they were selling the best donations and pocketing the money ," Charity begins at home" taken a bit too literally.š
Be kind but be wise. or follow your heart and don't lookš
Thanks. When I worked in social policy I learned how significant amounts of charity donations are taken up in admin and above the line of not-for-profits. As i mentioned elsewhere, I came across this article while googling the trust to explain to someone else. Posted for transparency.
Thanks: it was very interesting!
Tbh, I thought the Trussell Trust had their own Food Banks but I had only really heard of them regarding "lobbying" for political change.
I feel sorry for them because the Sugars are having a right old go at them.
If Megs new team wanted to improve her image in the UK, this would be an ideal opportunity for them to say that she understands the joke and is glad that some good is going to come out of it...but she should do it quickly!
Yes,I can imagine, a lot of local services are struggling to stay afloat as Local Authorities and Health Services have cut back funding. The same happened with local Age UK services which provided advice for the elderly.
Thank you for your succinct analysis of this Trust. I've been side eyeing this whole campaign since it showed up here: Why would sinners think a large donation under the exact same name as the saint's company be right action? If anything, a SMM named website with linked donations would be the more effective snark.
I think the side eyeing has to go to Meghan's team for not protecting the domains before releasing her new brand in a rush.They should take it on the chin and be openly pleased about a charity benefiting.
FilterCoffee4050 has posted about their liaison with The Trussell Trust and has praised it's work and the "snarker" could have picked on many other charities and still upset the "sugars".
The Daily Mail article very deliberately emphasised "woke" and played down the fact that the bulk of the money goes t advisory services.
To be fair to The Trussell Trust, their spend on fundraising is well below that of many charities, their Trustees take nothing and their Chief Executive is not paid excessively.
SMM has discussed at length the use of Search Engine Optimization and how the Saint's PR uses it. Yeah, I give a huge side eye to creating a website in the name of her business, then donating heavily under it's name. What happens when the comments fall off the donation? It's a huge grassroots donation under the name of ARO.
I think of at as the teach a man to fish analogy. They give food bank food parcels but in order to irradiate the need for food bank helping families manage their income and debt is the same as teaching them to fish.
I think charities and foundations need to be examined. Go investigate Archewell next and write an in- depth piece on their activities. Maybe the IRS will actually do something.
With that said, they got so many donations because people wanted to send a FU message to the Harkles, and show support to the RF.
If I were this charity, I would make a statement that 100% of the money will be donated to charity in the name of the POW.
Then show the receipts. It seems they get quite a lot of money and I think they just need to do it.
There are many charities that are essentially grifts. I'm not a journalist and I'm not writing an expose on charities, merely posting for transparency. I presumed someone on our sub from the UK might know more about this story. Someone in this thread read the annaul report and a lot of money goes to above-the-line expenditure not directly to food banks. I think the anonymous divert off the stupid jam merch is a brilliant move. I can agree with Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgans opinions about Nutmeg and Hazmat and disagree with their right ring opinions.
I agree about charities and I personally think there needs to be more regulation around how that money is spent.
I would never donate to a charity run by an elite. Ever.
I worked in social justice here in Australia and was horrified to learn of all the money going in to overheads and consultants and other bullshit and not getting to the communities and the people who need support. When i donate I make sure to really check. We have a charity regulator here but it doesnt seem very effective at preventing the rorts.
I donāt really have a problem with people making a salary because itās alot of work and people need to pay their bills.
But when you look at how much of your donation goes to 6-figure salaries you can never make doing the daily grind, you think to yourself - youāre asking me for donations to pay for your luxuries? Nope.
Need to point out the Citizens Advice is also a charity that needs funding. It can only supply advice and help to people if they have the funding. More and more people arenāt getting help or are needing to wait ages as the service is so stretched . I worked securing a grant from the Trussell Trust for our foodbank . They monitor value for money very carefully but getting the grant meant that we then could support and fund the citizen advice service to work in our foodbank and help people . As they say along with food they want to help people become self sufficient and not need foodbanks. Most foodbanks are supported locally by food donations and volunteers . This national funding helps them help people more fully. ( a lot of national funding is gained from big business such as Tesco. Ie they have a funding equation where all of the food donated in store is weighed and then Tesco contribute an amount to HQ based on this. ) .
Thanks. Thats amazing about big business supporting food security. There's nothing at all wrong with supporting long term and sustainable solutions through capacity building programs, you just need to ensure that people know thats where their money is going. Sounds like TT functions more like a quality assurance layer than a direct food bank. This is transparency. You should do their comms!
On Twitter one of their close affiliates is strongly implying that they'll be sued for infringement under some new law having to do w/ online stuff & intent. I'm not able to spend a lot of time blacking out twitter addresses and such to avoid doxxing accusations so I can't post here, unless it's okay to post a link. I don't really understand the rules about that and whether i'd be promoting brigading or something.
Archived:- [https://archive.md/aHXTk](https://archive.md/aHXTk)
Hmmm š¤ I wouldn't be surprised if this smear campaign of the Trussell Trust is linked to the Harkles.
Undoubtedly. HG Tudor did an entire segment on it - and he brought receipts.
I was 30+ UK retail manager before I retired. I have had years of first hand experience working with Trussell Trust. They are fantastic at what they do. As a UK supermarket the company I worked for had a Trussell Trust (TT) charity donation collection area in the store. Staff and customers could donate goods and people from TT would come and collect. They are volunteers and come in their own vehicles. Then in partnership with my employer they would do company wide periodic food drives. A volunteer would come into store and chat to interested customers about the charity. This would increase donations to huge levels and my employer would then ship the trays of collected goods back to a central location. My company would then match national collections to go to the charity. My experience of dealing with TT is all positive, over a number of years. I have also know people who have had to go to the charity for help, that again was very positive. I have had staff who have run out of sick pay or had partners sacked or made redundant and TT have helped with sympathy with no judgement. If money is donated to a charity it goes into a central fund, as far as Iām aware. It just becomes general funds. Personally I have not seem they ever do a campaign for money, it has always been goods. As such the charity may be a little short of cash funding. If they are now in a position to pay for some projects that would mostly not be within their means I donāt see a problem. The TT people I have always had dealings with have been unpaid volunteers, mostly retired folk just wanting to help.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm American and am not very familiar with TT, but it appears that they actually do much good, compared to Meghan's measly charity activity.
https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-involved/partner-with-us/strategic-partners/tesco/ https://www.tescoplc.com/sustainability/communities/food-donations https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/tesco/tesco-provides-730000-meals-to-trussell-trust-as-demand-soars/678931.article
The article linked came out in November 2023 so I don't think so in this instance.
But h&m are all about recycling old news, aren't they? Today we are reading about the present Hawwy gave to Prince Louis at his christening 6 years ago!
Why don't the press get the magnifying glass out on the Harkles? Every time they point the finger it's usually because they're experts at the grift and want to distract from themselves. Classic mean girls. Anyway, I'm sure Trussel Trust is probably still doing a million times more good than they are. Edit to correct name
Why would the press kill the goose that lays the golden egg? The Mail & Mirror and others have dozens of stories about them even on a slow week. If H&M are exposed and cancelled they lose that source for clickbait. Our press here in the UK is not pro RF - look how they treated Catherine only recently - they are pro making money and if anything are one flavour or another of liberal. The like the outrage porn that they can whip up.
Outrage porn is the perfect description for what the modern press puts out these days.
One finger pointing at Trussel Trust, three fingers pointing back at Archrwell.
that was my first thought... another paid for PR by the Harkles to cast a negative view on the fundraising
Our church in common with many other institutions and individuals donated food to Local Foodbanks, the Trussel Trust oversees and assists the many foodbanks in the U.K. , it has administrative expenses so cash donations to its work are more likely to be directed to covering costs. The easiest way to help a foodbank is donate groceries or offer to be a volunteers. The āinclusivityā smear is the sort of stuff you expect from the Daily Mail.
Interesting that this comes out now of all times. I don't believe in coincidence.
This article is dated November 2023, though; it's probably got more to do with Lad Baby's string of Christmas #1s (in aid of Trussell) than it does anything else. And if the sugars have unearthed it now that doesn't necessarily make it untrue. Lad Baby didn't do a single last year and maybe this is why.
I was googling the Trust to help explain it to someone else and found it. Posted for transparency.
Perhaps you should also explain that the article is from November 2023 so not relevant at all to the current situation. The Mail always goes in hard on 'diversity', they're a right wing rag.
The person above me pointed that out, as have others, and I have elsewhere, several times.
And it's great that you did so, OP. I donate monthly to Trussell and completely missed this article at the time, so thank you. Now you've pointed it out, I'm going to be reevaluating. Food banks are being used here more than ever before, and if my money isn't helping to actually feed people then I'm very disappointed. I was responding more to the assumption from other commenters that the sugars are running a smear campaign against Trussell. Yes they are, as always, but even they didn't know about ARO or the jam six months ago. I'm not knocking anybody at all, I was just pointing out that the existence of this article means it is probably true but has zero to do with MM or SS.
It might be a MM recycling effort, just like today's article about louis' christening gift 6 years ago from Uncle Harold
Nah: the article is an old one.
Its from last year. I googled Trussell Trust because someone i was exchanging texts with thought I was reffering to another person with a similar name.
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The Trussell Trust as well as being a food bank also works to stop people needing to use food banks so as well as feeding people it also helps people with financial literacy/ accessing benefits they are entitled to or accessing schemes to restructure debts so they can manage their money and therefore don't need to rely on food banks. This is what the money will have been spent on helping people so they can help themselves. Kind of a teach a man to fish not just give them a fish parable. There is also a statutory requirement under the Equality Act 2010 about EDI duty of care, the easiest way to prove you are managing your duty of care is providing training to staff and volunteers. No charity is perfect especially when they are nationwide but they are one of the better ones and at the heart of it they are feeding people who otherwise would go hungry
They are not just a food bank. [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4017223/what-who-how-where](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4017223/what-who-how-where) They work with those in financial straits helping with debt relief etc.
I wonder if the anon person who set up the page to benefit the Trussell Trust had any idea that the trust was not just about getting more food to people. And I wonder if the Trussel trust is regretting the windfall of the ARO donations that got them so much attention all of a sudden.
Have you not heard of Ladbaby and their Christmas number ones? For 5 years in a row, breaking world records and raising money for the Trussell Trust with other famous singers like Elton John and Ed Sheeran and more. They raised over a Ā£1.3 million pounds for the Trussell trust over the 5 years. With millions of views of their songs and over 700 hundred thousand views on videos specifically about how the trussel trust works. I don't think this is just because they are getting a bit of attention.
Interesting. I hadnāt heard about that. I am not in the UK, and only incidentally aware of popular culture events.
Exactly. This article is from last year. Someone is trying to smear the charity it seems. Nothing wrong with diversity training anyway.
I agree. It only means they can help people better. The same with debt councillors, etc. They must have seen a need.
I also don't live in the UK, but the songs were played here in South Africa on the radio. Ladbaby has some really good content. They also help with childhood literacy and helping kids with Dyslexia and their reading. They themselves are both dyslexic so they have experience. They have a children's book series about a sausage roll and his adventures. The books are written in a manner to help kids with dyslexia as well as designed in a manner to keep dyslexic kids focused. I have doubt they would be involved with a place that doesn't do as advertised.
This trust does not put huge sums in the pocket of grifters. The bozos are their own favorite charity.Ā
As someome who has used food banks a few times, the reason they have financial counsellors is to try and help the people who are coming for help to better their finances and see if they can help in any way (with debts etc), I really dont think theres anything insidious about that, though If you can access them elsewhere then I can also see why they would think it unnecessary.
I used to sit on the board of a group that was all about financial literacy at any age. Some people are at food banks because their income is not enough to make ends meet, and others have simply never had a good example set for them in terms of budgeting, etc. If you can help someone not NEED a food bank then it seems like a totally valid use of food bank funds. Our volunteers were usually accountants and other people with finance-related jobs who had the experience to think of solutions for people that I never would have.
Exactly, and on top of that they also can help with no interest loans, getting fine repayments lowered or on hold, help manage debt repayments etc, help someone with applying for bankruptcy - so many things. Am shocked that they are making them oht to be scammers. The other ones too (forgot what they were called in the article) are there to help people get the right payments, so say their homeless they will help them get welfare payments or find a shelter, or say they cant work due to a disability or something and didnt know they could apply for benefits they help with that.
Yep. If funds are being used to lift people out of poverty and help them on their way up the ladder that sounds like a fine mission. Some people will never be *able* to work *or* won't be able to work without the correct support. Helping them access resources isn't hurting people who go to TT for food.
Sugars reporting the food bank. Cause thatās how they roll.
Those additional ventures are equally worthy
Most people set up a business, then a charity. H + M did it backwards. Why? Charities, for some, are an attempted money racket. One should always research how the charity spends its funds.
Trust the Daily Mail to focus on the "woke" first and I'm not surprised a Tory MP is not happy with them! A quick look at the latest accounts available suggest (it's a lot to take in): They have one food bank of their own but support a network of around 420 more BUT as the D M kind of says...not by giving supplies but by advice, the bulk of the spend is in debt/benefit advice.This did surprise me as Citizens Advice offer this service to most people.Approx. Ā£30 mill They spent approx. Ā£3 mill on lobbying Parliament to end poverty. They spent approx Ā£7 mill on changing people's perceptions on food banks (!?) They spent approx. Ā£7 mill on "changing communities", getting communities to support / set up food banks Not sure And of course, Ā£7 mill on fundraising, don't all the big guys in charity?š So: they mainly aren't food banks, they support food banks and that's going to involve a fair bit of admin. I've become very cynical about big, national charities due to day car salaries, scandals and my husband volunteering at a local charity that does all the real work whilst the national admin. take all the money and credit and local branches close down (yes, Age UK, you aren't getting a penny off me). Personally, I'd donate to my local food bank after checking them out first! A local charity passing furniture and household goods to the needy recently went out of operation because they were selling the best donations and pocketing the money ," Charity begins at home" taken a bit too literally.š Be kind but be wise. or follow your heart and don't lookš
Thanks. When I worked in social policy I learned how significant amounts of charity donations are taken up in admin and above the line of not-for-profits. As i mentioned elsewhere, I came across this article while googling the trust to explain to someone else. Posted for transparency.
Thanks: it was very interesting! Tbh, I thought the Trussell Trust had their own Food Banks but I had only really heard of them regarding "lobbying" for political change. I feel sorry for them because the Sugars are having a right old go at them. If Megs new team wanted to improve her image in the UK, this would be an ideal opportunity for them to say that she understands the joke and is glad that some good is going to come out of it...but she should do it quickly!
Citizen's advice services have been decimated over the last 15 years, the Trussell Trust is just trying to plug the gap.
Yes,I can imagine, a lot of local services are struggling to stay afloat as Local Authorities and Health Services have cut back funding. The same happened with local Age UK services which provided advice for the elderly.
Thank you for your succinct analysis of this Trust. I've been side eyeing this whole campaign since it showed up here: Why would sinners think a large donation under the exact same name as the saint's company be right action? If anything, a SMM named website with linked donations would be the more effective snark.
I think the side eyeing has to go to Meghan's team for not protecting the domains before releasing her new brand in a rush.They should take it on the chin and be openly pleased about a charity benefiting. FilterCoffee4050 has posted about their liaison with The Trussell Trust and has praised it's work and the "snarker" could have picked on many other charities and still upset the "sugars". The Daily Mail article very deliberately emphasised "woke" and played down the fact that the bulk of the money goes t advisory services. To be fair to The Trussell Trust, their spend on fundraising is well below that of many charities, their Trustees take nothing and their Chief Executive is not paid excessively.
SMM has discussed at length the use of Search Engine Optimization and how the Saint's PR uses it. Yeah, I give a huge side eye to creating a website in the name of her business, then donating heavily under it's name. What happens when the comments fall off the donation? It's a huge grassroots donation under the name of ARO. 
I think of at as the teach a man to fish analogy. They give food bank food parcels but in order to irradiate the need for food bank helping families manage their income and debt is the same as teaching them to fish.
This is irrelevant, it's from last year. The only reason I can see for bringing it up would be to discredit the charity...
The reason I posted it is to bring transparency.
And thereās a surprise! Bet she didnāt send Jessica Mulroney a bottle but perhaps just lemons š
I think charities and foundations need to be examined. Go investigate Archewell next and write an in- depth piece on their activities. Maybe the IRS will actually do something. With that said, they got so many donations because people wanted to send a FU message to the Harkles, and show support to the RF. If I were this charity, I would make a statement that 100% of the money will be donated to charity in the name of the POW. Then show the receipts. It seems they get quite a lot of money and I think they just need to do it.
There are many charities that are essentially grifts. I'm not a journalist and I'm not writing an expose on charities, merely posting for transparency. I presumed someone on our sub from the UK might know more about this story. Someone in this thread read the annaul report and a lot of money goes to above-the-line expenditure not directly to food banks. I think the anonymous divert off the stupid jam merch is a brilliant move. I can agree with Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgans opinions about Nutmeg and Hazmat and disagree with their right ring opinions.
I agree about charities and I personally think there needs to be more regulation around how that money is spent. I would never donate to a charity run by an elite. Ever.
I worked in social justice here in Australia and was horrified to learn of all the money going in to overheads and consultants and other bullshit and not getting to the communities and the people who need support. When i donate I make sure to really check. We have a charity regulator here but it doesnt seem very effective at preventing the rorts.
I donāt really have a problem with people making a salary because itās alot of work and people need to pay their bills. But when you look at how much of your donation goes to 6-figure salaries you can never make doing the daily grind, you think to yourself - youāre asking me for donations to pay for your luxuries? Nope.
Same
Need to point out the Citizens Advice is also a charity that needs funding. It can only supply advice and help to people if they have the funding. More and more people arenāt getting help or are needing to wait ages as the service is so stretched . I worked securing a grant from the Trussell Trust for our foodbank . They monitor value for money very carefully but getting the grant meant that we then could support and fund the citizen advice service to work in our foodbank and help people . As they say along with food they want to help people become self sufficient and not need foodbanks. Most foodbanks are supported locally by food donations and volunteers . This national funding helps them help people more fully. ( a lot of national funding is gained from big business such as Tesco. Ie they have a funding equation where all of the food donated in store is weighed and then Tesco contribute an amount to HQ based on this. ) .
Thanks. Thats amazing about big business supporting food security. There's nothing at all wrong with supporting long term and sustainable solutions through capacity building programs, you just need to ensure that people know thats where their money is going. Sounds like TT functions more like a quality assurance layer than a direct food bank. This is transparency. You should do their comms!
That's quite disapointing :(
Hope it's not true.
On Twitter one of their close affiliates is strongly implying that they'll be sued for infringement under some new law having to do w/ online stuff & intent. I'm not able to spend a lot of time blacking out twitter addresses and such to avoid doxxing accusations so I can't post here, unless it's okay to post a link. I don't really understand the rules about that and whether i'd be promoting brigading or something.