Charity Bags

Do you get as many bags to fill for 'charity' as we do, I wonder? With about two a week coming through our letterbox, how much spare clothing do they think we have??

Today's is "Do not delay!" and is to help prevent breast cancer in Lithuania. It does not appear to be a charity, so there's no way of knowing how much money is raised and how much of it goes to breast cancer screening.

Kidney Research UK, whose bag arrived recently is a charity, and according to its most recent published accounts, just over 50% of its expenditure was on its charitable activities. I'll leave you to decide whether or not that's a reasonable amount. Just for comparison, the Baptist Missionary Society spent around 94% of its income on its charitable activities, according to their latest accounts.

A few days ago it was "The Hand of Help", who admit they are a commercial company "who helped the disabled children and will do so in the future." Good for them! But their bag, like the rest will be turned inside out and used for putting out our rubbish, as our council is no longer supplying us with plastic sacks.

If we have clothing, etc., we want to throw out, we it take to a local charity shop, so we know where the money is going to.