No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
TheEye has done a few of those charity events where you effectively ‘buy’ your ticket on a walk or expedition with a certain amount of pledged fundraising. In fact a friend is walking the Atlas Mountains later this year on a similar scheme. Mad, mad fool.
The downside to not hitting your target can be not going but is more usually having to grovel a bit to the organisers.
This chappie, though, wasn’t expecting The Spanish Inquisition this to happen:
“A charity worker who crawled the London Marathon dressed as Brian the Snail from The Magic Roundabout has been sacked for not raising enough money.
Action for Kids fundraiser Lloyd Scott hoped to raise at least £100,000 for the charity but received about £20,000.”
You might remember him as the man who “ran” the 2002 London Marathon dressed in a full deep sea diving suit.
Yay! Three cheers for the Big Society!
Sorry Eye .. I’m obviously having a “Bootie” moment here .. 😉
HTF can someone who collects monies for charity, on a voluntary basis get sacked ?
If he’s a volunteer & does it out of the kindness of his heart .. they can’t sack him, as they don’t employ him in the first instance ..
If he’s an employee of the charity, I’d say he has good grounds to go to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal ..
Whichever the case, if it were me .. I’d make damned certain that particular charity never got so much as the drippings off my cock in the future .. Ungrateful bastards ..
They have a fucking nerve – just adds to everyone’s suspicions that they’re not real charities any more, merely money-grubbing parasites with an agenda! >:o
You’re right, yes, I’m not sure how this arrangement works. I can only guess that as he’s a serial fundraiser for these people he is paid expenses, publicity etc and there is some sort of contract involved.
It’s all far too commercialised for my liking if that’s true.
Can’t understand why he is carrying on though. I’d have told them to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. Sideways. Unlubricated.
Most charities seem to be nowadays. I use fakecharities.org as my guide to who needs avoiding.
Frightening when you see how much of our money is handed to them only to be recycled as lobbying cash.
I came across these paid chuggers a while back, some student moaning that she was having to ‘work’ as such during her hols.
Meanwhile Beeb Radio 4 had a lengthy article about ‘charities’ suffering loss of Govt. funding from ‘the cuts’ and some being unable to develope alternative revenue streams. We were given examples of local community groups caring for cancer sufferers but they did not mention political pressure groups like ASH or Alcohol Concern.