"Captain Tom" charity | Watchdog to review accounts

Says a lot about his daughter who uses the Pandemic and NHS to create wealth for herself.

Please don't come at me with the "Oh but in the charity sector, charities wouldn't make so much money if it wasn't for the Execs on £300k PA and whopping bonuses). Just like those c*nts on the street who try and stop you to sign up for a direct debit. They are effectively taking from a charity / using it to create their own wealth.
 
Stand to be corrected but isn't it law that to be a registered charity for anything, the minimum of money that has to be donated from that which is raised is either 40% or 60%....thought 40% but not sure?
Alot of people make alot of money from 'charity' with a couple of best known ones making the most.
 
Hutchymcfc said:
S how much do you think it actually costs to keep the heating on to this temperature
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Don’t know, don’t care enough. Big charities funnel far too much money away which should be going to its intended destination.
It’s a story as old as time. I don’t like it, think there should be something in place to stop it but honestly, it’s not an issue I want to spend too much time over analysing due to the fact there’s far more important stuff going on in my own life.
I mean, my original reply to you was obviously being lighthearted hence the ‘Haha’ but I suppose it’s a subject that some take serious so I’ll leave you to it.
 
Hutchymcfc said:
So you think having heating on at 25 degrees and staff having top notch stuff is ok ?, I certainly don’t that money should actually be going to helping people
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Please don't take this personally but that attitude is extremely ignorant and it sounds like you've no idea how charities work.

A charity is simply a business, (albeit one with a core mission, either social, or artistic, or environmental, etc) that reinvests its surplus income into said mission.

Like any business, in order to be successful they need to attract and retain good people. To do that you need to pay a fair wage and provide good working conditions. If you don't the good people leave and you're left scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I have spent most of my career working for charities in the entertainment/culture/arts sector. I am very good at what I do.

Without going into too much detail I work for a very well known organisation in Manchester that operates in the music industry. It is a charity. Any surplus we make is not taken out as profit, it is reinvested in our community, education and outreach works. The results of this are pretty wonderful. The company is not owned by one person, it is overseen by a board of trustees who are volunteers.

Do I like working for a company that I know does good work rather than whose only aim is to make a load of profit for the guy who owns it? Yes, of course.

Would I work for free, in a cold shite basement with no coffee and the odd biscuit? Would I fuck.

There you go.
 
Owdman said:
I watched live footage of him finishing his walk, the cameras were there with a lap to go and one of the crew asked him if he could 'go over the line as if it was the 100th lap' even though he had one lap to go. He told them in no uncertain terms that 'if he was doing the walk - he was going to do it properly'.
I reckon that Sir Captain Tom was as straight as a die.
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I guess the TV crew weren’t getting paid by the hour.
 
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