Charity days at work.

My daughter's school in SA had summer and winter uniforms, and enforced it. There was a civvies day each term and the girls were invited to make a donation which went to charity, but it was voluntary and they didn't keep records of who contributed, or how much they gave. No-one minded at all, but there shouldn't be any pressure to go along with it.

TBH, I find the whole idea of people in workplaces wearing fancy dress - and being expected to pay for the "privilege" - ridiculous.
 
Where I work now, there are frequent voluntary charity events, although non participation isn't frowned upon. We had one in the summer, a sports day. There was three events, cycling, running and walking around the test track. If we wanted, we could enter 1, 2 or all 3 events. It was great, spending most of your day out in the sun and getting paid for it plus it was an opportunity to catch up with old workmates that I hadn't seen since the previous year, when we all started our new jobs.
 
Hmm if I get asked to do something I might consider participating, if the charity was one that I supported. To be honest I prefer a local charity as they are often overlooked more than the big nationals, and many of the CEO's earn £100K a year or more. I fully realise they are being run as a business and someone at the top needs to make key decisions, however be a bit more charitable and only take a salary of £50K or £60K. Pretty sure could have a comfortable standard of living with that.

Also take McMillan (picked randomly) - their head office is a rather swanky tower block on the banks of the Thames in central London. No idea what the rates / rent is, but pretty sure a lot of donations are paying for that!

However if told that £2 to play or £5 not to play they can sod off.
 
My employer does a lot for local charities as well as some of the bigger ones. When they shutdown our stamping plant last year, they donated Transit minibuses and vans as well as cash to several local charities, they also donate financially to some local charities and schools and the workforce volunteer their time to help out. Plus the test track is made available at weekends for free to several local charities to use as car and motorbike shows as well as car rides around the track, the charities charge an admission fee to raise their money.
 
gumbo-67 said:
Well i told my boss today I will not be wearing a jumper and he said you'll have to pay £5 and i said nope i'm not as i give to charities that I wish to give to end of. He was ok with it but said the Big boss may not be. my answer was he will be told the same as i told you. and Tuff if he doesn't like it.
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Well done Terri, but knowing what I do about companies and their "Corporate image", I would have been tempted to take some kind of recording to copy your boss's reply, because in my experience they can and will hold this against you.
I am such a bolshy person that I would (and have) done the same thing as you, because I hate to be coerced into parting with my hard earned cash - it is mine and I will decide what to spend it on - end of!

Nearly forgot.
Has anyone any idea how much the executives, directors and other staff of charities get paid?
I do, because I worked for a very large one, and they get paid a lot of money - money which is coming out of charitable donations.
 
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andy700 said:
Nearly forgot.
Has anyone any idea how much the executives, directors and other staff of charities get paid?
I do, because I worked for a very large one, and they get paid a lot of money - money which is coming out of charitable donations.
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These expose's come out from time to time.
I guess its the old says "Charity begins at home"
as far as they are concerned anyway ;)
 
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