I used to give to several charities, but stopped about 5 years go, when I found out that the majority of the money does NOT go to those who need it.
Hell will freeze over before I give to any charity again, just so some fat cat can cream off the profits and buy a third yacht in Monaco, and some new oak furniture for his holiday villa in Sydney.
Anyone who believes these charities are giving all the money they are collecting from the gullible public, to the 'cause' they claim they are giving it to, is laughably naive. The majority are only out for themselves, and don't give a stuff about the 'cause...' And those hideous chuggers you see on the streets, get a MINIMUM of £50 for every sucker they get to sign up. The elderly are their favourite, because some of them are generous and gullible, and they can hound them and pester them and bleed them dry to the death; which they sometimes do.
Even some of the cancer charities are questionable; And they're not going to find cures whilst they're making multiple millions a year from the 'research.'
There are nearly 200,000 registered charities in this country; do the high-on-their-horse folk on here who call people 'too cheap to give' suggest we all give to every one? Coz it's not fair to leave any out is it?
Some people talk such drivel!