Originally Posted by Sled dog hotel

I may be wrong, but I have a feeling a lot of these people collecting are not volunteers or workers from the charities themselves. I believe they are actually employees from a company that does the canvassing and sign ups on the charities behalf. I assume the chartities pay the private company then the company pay the guys on a sort of commission basis.

I saw something similar on watch dog or a similar type of programme.
This was about companies who employ the guys offering good money but it turns out to be a commision only basis, so the guys can be out canvassing for days and not actually earn anything or much. I didnt see all of the programme but I believe it was referring to this type of charity signing up and the annoying surveys they stop you for or come to the door saying "Its only a couple of questions" and there you are 45 minutes later still.

Originally Posted by 912142

I was a Barnardos child and I can tell you there was more child abuse going on in our home than you could imagine. On my first day there I was put on a bedside cabinet and a bowl put over my head and my lovely long curly locks cut off. I was made to eat my own vomit, wash my own sheets (at 4 yrs old). We were beaten with a wooden ornament. We were not allowed to eat sweets or accept a sweet from school friends. Our mail came with pieces cut out of the letters. We had to put our hand up and not speak until we were told we could do so. 'Kids were to be seen and not heard'! I wouldn't give them a penny. That's just a taster of life in a kids home.