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[Edited By The Ed To Remove Charity Names]
My lovely nephew and his wife ran a ball a few months ago for a charity. They managed to raise £17,000 between running marathons and the ball. However, £3,000 is missing and he can account for every single penny.
He has tortured the workers of the charity to find out where the £3,000 has gone. They loathe to see him now as he is determined to find out. They are quibbling with "Oh some of the money went to complementary tickets" - this and that. The blatant answer is they pocketed the money.
Now he has said he will never ever do anything more for the above charity.
The whole thing has made me very sceptical as to the charities I fund. How do you find this? I am also sad too.
My lovely nephew and his wife ran a ball a few months ago for a charity. They managed to raise £17,000 between running marathons and the ball. However, £3,000 is missing and he can account for every single penny.
He has tortured the workers of the charity to find out where the £3,000 has gone. They loathe to see him now as he is determined to find out. They are quibbling with "Oh some of the money went to complementary tickets" - this and that. The blatant answer is they pocketed the money.
Now he has said he will never ever do anything more for the above charity.
The whole thing has made me very sceptical as to the charities I fund. How do you find this? I am also sad too.
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Can I also just redress the balance about charities having highly paid staff? Charities operate in an extremely competitive market. There are a huge number of charities but a finite amount of funds. Most (not all, I accept) charities pay significant heed to their administrative costs. Take for instance the area of legacies. The charity trustees have a personal liability to ensure that the charity receives its full entitlement. THerefore any charity with anything more than a mediocre legacy income needs to employ professional knowledgeable staff to ensure this - a good legacy department can add between 5-7% of the charity's legacy income to the baseline in terms of identifying missed tax concessions, identifying fraud (wholly charitable estates are 10x more likely to be the victims of fraud) etc. The pay rates simply do not compare with the private sector so the charities do extremely well to employ the staff they do who show such professionalism.
Well done Jenny Joan, bad editing as far as I am concerned if the charity has questions to answer then they should be called to account...
Your script reads as tho £17 000 was given to the charity and only £14 000 is 'there'. The overheads cannot possibly to £3k. Running cost overheads shouldnt be more than 10% turn over
One has to more careful handling someone else's money that one does with ones own.
When I was a chmn - I sued one of the fund raisers for doing this. I submitted a forensic account and he was not able to. He went bankrupt in between judgement and my sending in the bailiffs.
Your nephew could complain direct to the Charity Commission and allege breach of trust - at least that will make him feel better. The CC are pretty c+ap to be honest....
Your script reads as tho £17 000 was given to the charity and only £14 000 is 'there'. The overheads cannot possibly to £3k. Running cost overheads shouldnt be more than 10% turn over
One has to more careful handling someone else's money that one does with ones own.
When I was a chmn - I sued one of the fund raisers for doing this. I submitted a forensic account and he was not able to. He went bankrupt in between judgement and my sending in the bailiffs.
Your nephew could complain direct to the Charity Commission and allege breach of trust - at least that will make him feel better. The CC are pretty c+ap to be honest....
I don't dispute she has a point, but I think the nephew ought to take it up with the charity trustees as an opening gambit. I also think naming the charity and accusing workers of stealing the money is bang out of order until it has been looked at. Conne may be perfectly correct in her assumptions. ON the other hand she could be very wide of the mark.
First step is charity trustees.
First step is charity trustees.
absolutely royfromAus
if he has given 17k, then this should be recorded and the overheads entered under a different entry ( and perhaps a different account )
You cant just say all right I will enter 14k as I am knocking off 3k for overheads ( what overheads connected to the 17k for chrissakes ? )
stinko stinko and I am not even a book keeper.
if he has given 17k, then this should be recorded and the overheads entered under a different entry ( and perhaps a different account )
You cant just say all right I will enter 14k as I am knocking off 3k for overheads ( what overheads connected to the 17k for chrissakes ? )
stinko stinko and I am not even a book keeper.
