Captain Tom - now Sir Tom!

blueish swede said:
It's being organised by NHS Charities Together, which is a legit umbrella organisation for different NHS charities.

I did hear about Just Giving taking a large fee as standard if you don't go in and change the amount, but that doesn't seem to be true either. For charities there is a monthly fee of max £39, a 1.9% payment processing fee and a 5% gift aid service fee (5% of the Gift Aid, not the total).
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No that's true, they added on 10% to "help others raise money" but it was a bit sly as I think it was just after you had ticked the gift-aid box so some may have thought that was the gift-aid donation amount. I spotted it and changed it to a quid but didn't realise they made money from a monthly fee and a kick back from the gift-aid.
 
Over thirty million now,what a trouper,got over hundred thousand brthday cards ,he is 100 now and been promoted to colonel and had a fly past for his birthday

Says he is a Yorkshire man,he doesn't get tired

Love hin
 
Mark Steel nails it.

Captain, now Colonel, Tom Moore, the 99-year-old who raised £13m walking around his garden, is also marvellous. And the government could use his efforts to learn how to fund a health service. Because we’ve been using this outdated method, in which we take part of everyone’s income in “tax”, and spend it on plasters and X-ray machines. But that’s unfair on certain people in society, such as those groups who don’t want to pay tax because they’re selfish arseholes.

So instead, from now on, we should find out how much our health service needs for the next month, and then tell Colonel Tom Moore how far he has to walk to raise it.

In a normal summer, when there are fewer people in hospital, he’ll only have to do a few miles a day. Then in winter when we need more beds, he’ll need to get a bit of a trot on. It’s so simple it’s amazing no one has thought of it before.
 
Blue Mist said:
Yes, me. As with everything the media get their hands on, it gets smarmy and ruined. It is now becoming like all the other Facebook shite, oh we must knight him, Michael Ball/YNWA, record at number one etc etc. Soon they will start attacking him, someone will dig up his war record and find he bombed a hospital. The bloke has been brilliant but the media circus is doing my head in.

Edit: I see it has started already. I had not read the previous posts about his daughter allegedly in charge of the charity.
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It’s worse than that - he was on ‘Blankety Blank.’
 
Must have been his daughters idea to wheel him out in the cold this morning directing everyone! Lets hope he hasn't caught a chill. Poor sod might be needing a bed in a few days!
 
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