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Sadly this comes as no surprise to me. Forty years ago I discovered that Oxfam....I was a paid Oxfam worker then.....was a corrupt, jobs for the boys organisation prepared to brush theft under the carpet and humour the thieves......

My colleague and I resigned but refused to be silenced and made sure that what we knew....and had proof of.....was investigated and brought into the open....

When it was over I was told I could only come back to OXFAM in any position...paid or voluntary.....if I promised never to whistle blow again......x

I am a bit surprised by this if its true, children or not. MY DH worked for a large multinational and often went to countries where business moral standards differed from our own. There were clear international rules on what "hospitality" might be accepted and what "local entertainment" might be enjoyed and what might not. Failure to comply meant dismissal.
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Oxfam, overall, means well but it is a big and unwieldy organisation.

We have a local Oxfam book and Music shop and it is better than excellent. But I know very little about the bigger organisation.
// You've got Labour on your mind? Time to visit your GP for a mental health assessment.//

please please children - no personal abuse on AB - I have been rightly reproved on another thread for such unforgivable vulgarity ( personal abuse that is! )

problem wivda editor correcting the title is that it renders the first ten entries incomprehensible - or gibberish to use another ABers fave remark.

and as for
//Spatthedummy, give yourself peace with your holier than thou drivel and stick to the point.//
Douglas - take some Bromide for all our sakes !
such brutality !

and yes Thank you AOG for raising the oxfam issue
its been the week end and endless new Brexit threads ( er havent we agreed to leave ? er no dont answer that! )

and a thread that can only be described as moronic on nationalisation wivvart compensation - something which has been unlawful for fifty years
but hey lets have a thread saying it isnt !
( oh yes it is ! oh Lardy lardy ! )

I am not sure myself returning to the subject
that if you are living off govt money then you can sucessfully say - this is none of their business, it is in my free time....
if you were paying for yourself, then you might

Andrew Mitchell ( police libel - you're the ones meant to be protecting us! - that one ) has made a come back

as for tight fists not giving to charity
give by gift aid - tax deductible - if youa re a rich boy -
lots munnay ! every £100 you give the charity gets tax relief and £166
uvvawise - on a lower tax rate £100 means £125
Sorry to hear that Gness

my bruvva told the Health Minister of Namibia that she sholdn t spend HIV on her gin parties and got deported within three days

and was told by WHO - they dealth with institutions and ministries and not people !

they sent him later to m'guguland
spathy.....//
I like local charity's... I'd rather go give a homeless man £10 than give £2 month to a homeless charity for 5 months...//

Please reconsider giving cash to your local charity....if, like ours, they desperately need money. It pays for support workers who help with benefits, housing, mental health, training. It pays the salaries of cooks like me. It goes towards the necessarys for making healthy meals. It pays for cleaning supplies that aren't donated. A £10 donation is far more useful than some of the shockingly horrible things that get dragged out of lofts in the assumption that we'll take anything.
It will go to far better use than giving it directly to a homeless person.
Gness, have you ever thought of writing a book?
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What next for Oxfam?

The Deputy Chief Executive, Penny Lawrence has resigned. If the story continues to ‘have legs’, there may very well be further resignations.

Medium term, this will damage Oxfam’s reputation. It may well see donations fall. What the organisation will need to do, is carry out a thorough investigation into policies and internal procedures, and make those findings public.

Oxfam may find it takes time to put out this fire.
What next indeed - confidence shaken and that will have a huge effect.

So very badly handled from the off, how they ever thought it would go undiscovered and kept out of the public eye would be laughable if it wasn't so appalling.
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AB Editor

Thank you Ed for correcting the title, even after my apology and correction on the first post, there were still some who couldn't stop themselves from having a dig, one even questioning my mental health, which strangely wasn't removed.
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Just on news.Deputy Chief Executive has just resigned.
Danny, that was mentioned - by a couple of posters - a little earlier.
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/// Just on news.Deputy Chief Executive has just resigned. ///

Old News
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Spath, BHF have had their moments of controversy too as of course have other large charities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Heart_Foundation#Criticism

There are so many hard working people trying to help via these larger organisations, it must sadden those people greatly.
AOG, Please accept my abject apologies for only just hearing about it.
Mea culpa,
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These top charities have become that big that they have been a law to themselves.

They should all be investigated so as to see where all the public money that they receive, goes.

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