Charities

[jennyjoan]

What kind of charities are NOT funded ie do really need donations.

[Daffy6543]

Local animal shelters that are not connected to RSPCA in any way tend to get forgotten about.

[Peter Pedant]

er most of them I would have thought

if you get govt money I would have thought you called them govt departments. sorry JJ that comment makes sense to me

I think you would probably have to read their accounts to find out

and of course there are charities which rely on donations which SHOULD be funded. "Aspire" a ventilator charity that tends to people with broken necks springs to mind.

[Retrochic]

Air Ambulances

[sandyRoe]

I think most charities which help animals wouldn't be funded by anything other than charitable donations.

[jennyjoan]

Keep them coming and thanks

[bednobs]

local charities tend not to get govt funding

[boxtops]

Hospices are charities, having worked in one I know that they receive some annual funding from the NHS, but the great majority of their vital expenditure is funded by public donations, legacies etc.

The Lifeboats are another charity which I am amazed to find gets no central funding at all, again it all runs on charitable donations.

In answer to your question - I don't understand how institutions like Eton College get charitable status, when well-heeled parents pay for their boys to attend. I'd say that the majority of charities to do with health or old people or animals really need the money from us.

[jennyjoan]

I do give to a few but am a bit sceptical as to - does the full amount get to the charities ie - admin costs etc.

[AB Editor]

The Stroke Association doesn't get looked after nearly as well as it should.

Strokes are one of the major causes of death in the UK: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/mortality-statistics--deaths-registered-in-england-and-wales--series-dr-/2012/sty-causes-of-death.html but are comparatively underfunded.

http://www.stroke.org.uk/

[ummmm]

Boxy....I used to work in a hospital that is a registered charity and it costs about £500 per night to stay there.

[rsvp]

My view is that the larger the charity the less of your donation goes to the cause as the overheads are so high. Why not find a local charity you want to support, get in touch with them and ask questions. Genuine ones will welcome you with open arms whereas those which are set up to fund a life style will be cagey.

[Peter Pedant]

// I don't understand how institutions like Eton College get charitable status, when well-heeled parents pay for their boys to attend. //

short answer to that is: you read the charities act and see how it is done.

BUPA is another charity. The then Lord Mayor or Manchester very near blew a fuse when I told her.

Charities can in fact trade ( charity shops spring to mind)
and can even trade with a non charitable object BUT in that case there is a cap ( £25k I think ) on it.

So if you trade above that - what you do is form a company with that trading object and then all profits from the company are then gift-aided to the charity itself tax free no corporation tax. Two sets of books to submit every y instead of one but that is what the tax man insists on.

Bit of an off-point post but I SWEAR someone said above they couldnt see why some organisations got charitable status.

[carrust]

My ex brother in law was a deputy head at private prep school & they managed to wangle free milk for all the pupils!

[Peter Pedant]

Jay jay - the overheads in a decently run charity should not be more than 10%. you can certainly ask.

I thought help for heroes had been fingered and here is a URL
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1713937

You have to choose carefully

[boxtops]

conne, the best way of making sure that money goes to a charity without massive overheads is to look at their annual accounts (and they all have to file accounts with the Charity Commissioners). People often moan about charities' wages bills, but they need professional fundraisers and managers in order to keep their businesses afloat, and places like the hospices have to pay their staff, too.

[woofgang]

BUPA is not a charity. I used to have a research foundation which is now closed. It does engage in charitabe activities, eg the Great North Run bt is not, itself a charity. It is a not for profit organisation in that it has no shareholders and reinvests any surplus income back into its business.

[boxtops]

Looking at another post - I forgot the Air Ambulance, they need our money too, to survive.

[Peter Pedant]

Bupa closes its charitable research foundation after 34 years
www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/health/article3753902.ece
2 May 2013 - Scientists have angrily attacked Bupa for abruptly shutting down its charitable organisation, which has funded medical research to the tune of

however according to BUPA
At Bupa, we take the work we do seriously and this can be seen in the work done through Bupa Foundations. Bupa Foundations are independent charities that fund medical research through their grants, helping to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health

At the time I was twitting the Mayor I had no difficulty in showing the local BUPA was registered as a charity (2001)

damn damn damn
I might have been talking about the Nuff

Charitable status | Nuffield Health
www.nuffieldhealth.com › About us › What makes us different?
We are the largest healthcare charity in the UK. Nuffield Health provides expert, joined-up healthcare defined by and created for UK health consumers

[woofgang]

hahahaha PP Checkyerfacts!!
The Nuffield seems to be though.