Don't donate to those telly ads misty. They're just grief porn designed to tug at your heart strings. 95% (my reckoning, no link supporting that figure, soz) of telly donations go to making the vids and funding the high rolling executives at the top of the chain and very little gets to the needy. Support local charities. Soup kitchens and charity shops run by volunteers supporting local animal sanctuaries or homeless shelters. We are no longer a thriving country and we need to direct our charity toward our own people around us. Even food banks are dodgy. I started world war 3 with a witch on a site where you review items, including food. She was reviewing food from three boxes of food her mum had got her from the foodbank she works at !!! ... while also reviewing the hotel she stayed at in the Maldives the previous month and the big name theme park she'd taken her kids to for the weekend.I agree with you Penny. I just scanned the Sussex Royal website and it just seems to be pages of waffle without any substance. It doesn't spell out what they are actually going to do and we all know that there are dozens of charities out there already.
I remember crying when I was a child when I saw some famine victims on TV and seemingly nothing has really changed in my lifetime. I've made donations over the years but I still see the same ads on TV. Now most people are aware that corruption is rife and the money donated rarely gets to those who need it. Charities just appear to be businesses in which top executives earn a lot of money and structures rarely change to enable people to help themselves.
We've all had enough of celebs like Bono popping up telling us to hand over our money when most of us are just struggling to get by. There's a huge amount of poverty in the UK and kids who can't get jobs. I've not had a holiday abroad in years because I can't afford it so celebs banging on about carbon footprints just get right up my nose.
Why not do something to help the underprivileged in this country?
I blew up and went ballistic at her for daring taking from a food bank. Told her that if I knew where she lived I'd report her and her mother for abusing the food bank. I'm still raging thinking about it yet, grrrr.Fucked me right off.
Sorry, off topic, but it's my pet hate. SUPPORT LOCAL, and you see where it goes.