Giving to charities, do you do it?

Charities depend on guilt, something I do not subscribe to. I do donate to the poppy appeal though and help for hero's - I feel they are worthy causes.

Um, are we still in Victorian times?

Actually reading my comment I look like an emotional retard. I basically hate been hounded by charities, something they increasingly do. I'd quite like to know exactly where the money is being spent and then I can give at my discretion. Those happy, mental hippy types that attack you when you're at your most vunerable on the street or come rattling a bucket in your face in the pub I can do without.

Then ask. It's not that complicated, and you can restrict your donation to direct activities, rather than an organisation's overheads, but remember that you can't deliver a project helping individuals, projects, donkeys, etc. without someone to manage it.

But I'm not going to disagree with you on Chuggers. They cause the most complaints, and end up costing younger people / students more in bank fees than they donate to the organisation. However that ability to collect contact details is worth a fortune to some charities.

Oh and check that pub rattlers are actually not thieves in costume.