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Rnli Slammed For Spending Millions On Foreign Aid
//Bosses last week warned the lifeboat charity is facing “some major challenges” after making losses of £6.3million last year. But donations to the service are being spent on creches in Bangladesh and swimsuits for Muslim women in Tanzania.
Tory MP Nigel Evans, who sits on the Commons International Development Committee, said the charity is putting its reputation at risk.
He added: “I would say 99 per cent of the British public giving them money do not have the faintest idea it’s diverted to projects overseas.”//
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This is one charity I thought was struggling and really needed the money to continue its excellent work around our shores. I certainly wasn’t aware that a proportion of my donations are going overseas. Will this information put this charity’s reputation at risk?
Tory MP Nigel Evans, who sits on the Commons International Development Committee, said the charity is putting its reputation at risk.
He added: “I would say 99 per cent of the British public giving them money do not have the faintest idea it’s diverted to projects overseas.”//
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This is one charity I thought was struggling and really needed the money to continue its excellent work around our shores. I certainly wasn’t aware that a proportion of my donations are going overseas. Will this information put this charity’s reputation at risk?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think the RNLI should quickly realise that funding overseas projects will alienate the donors in this country and their funding will drop quite drastically, to the detriment of all in trouble. Is it not sufficient they are helping other countries when they rescue foreigners in trouble around our coasts without donating directly to those countries?
Up until now most of us have donated assuming that we are funding lifeboats. If this organisation wants to filter some of that money out to other countries it should make that absolutely clear and, as someone else said, perhaps form a sub-group to deal with that – thereby allowing supporters to choose where their money is spent.
> I'm not saying I don't sympathise with the reaction that money donated to a UK charity shouldn't be spent abroad, but to respond by cutting off donations seems extremely irrational.
The rationality of that is they clearly have more than enough money if they can spend some of it abroad when they are the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. This is what Nigel Evans was getting at, I think.
The sad thing is that they don't have more than enough money, they're making a loss despite all the volunteers that work for them ...
The rationality of that is they clearly have more than enough money if they can spend some of it abroad when they are the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. This is what Nigel Evans was getting at, I think.
The sad thing is that they don't have more than enough money, they're making a loss despite all the volunteers that work for them ...
I will donate to individual lifeboat stations - even if my money just keeps the crews in tea and biscuits - or pays for a lick of paint on the woodwork - but I won't donate to the organisation again. I absolutely refuse to help to fund the overseas projects the RNLI is involved in. I regard this as misappropriation of funds and as such, utterly wrong.
The current Chief Executive, Mark Dowie, was a RNLI volunteer before he accepted the post and no way can be described as a creep
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//An just who would do those jobs, Togo?//
What? You mean the non jobs.....the positions created to make a safe space for the hangers on. Tea cup inspectors, magazine scrutineers in the mess, so shall meedya spies checking for the wrong sort of banter, Public Relations "officers"? Don't make me laugh. The RNLI and it's true meaning will outlast all the diversity tub thumpers when we take the control of it away from them.
What? You mean the non jobs.....the positions created to make a safe space for the hangers on. Tea cup inspectors, magazine scrutineers in the mess, so shall meedya spies checking for the wrong sort of banter, Public Relations "officers"? Don't make me laugh. The RNLI and it's true meaning will outlast all the diversity tub thumpers when we take the control of it away from them.
//The current Chief Executive, Mark Dowie, was a RNLI volunteer before he accepted the post//
He has been placed in the wrong position then, another trait that the luvvies are famous for. We have lost a good crew member and gained a crap chief executive. Put him back in the Helly Hansen kit and out of the Hugo Boss suit. Pronto.
He has been placed in the wrong position then, another trait that the luvvies are famous for. We have lost a good crew member and gained a crap chief executive. Put him back in the Helly Hansen kit and out of the Hugo Boss suit. Pronto.
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