Posted on 16/04/2020 13:10
CONGRATULATIONS to the 99 year old gentleman who started walking round his garden to try to raise £1000 for N H S Charities Together before his own 100th birthday. At lunchtime today, April 16th he has raised a mere THIRTEEN MILLION POUNDS Plus !! WELL DONE SIR, VERY WELL DONE !!
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Posted on 16/04/2020 13:10 by ABMCONGRATULATIONS to the 99 year old gentleman who started walking round his garden to try to raise £1000 for N H S Charities Together before his own 100th birthday. At lunchtime today, April 16th he has raised a mere THIRTEEN MILLION POUNDS Plus !! WELL DONE SIR, VERY WELL DONE !!
{ The shouting was deliberate & deserved IMHO
Posted on 17/04/2020 21:12
I very gladly donated but I was surprised at the 'cut' the just giving page wanted/took. I paid but it was £1.50 for £10 donation, that stuck and I can't remember the other amounts. So they've made a very good wack of 'commission' and I hope they'll pass it on?? I won't hold my breath. I wondered why a fb advert for Virgin said their charity page was 'free'
It seems to me that cheap digital banking isn't! If I stick a tenner in a charity tin the charity gets a tenner..... if I walk into a booking office and pay cash I get my ticket for face value, if I order online they add a handling fee, either per ticket or per transaction, then postage if I don't collect! Sometimes you're not given the option and you have to buy online and take it on the chin!!
Sorry for going off topic, it takes nothing away from the raising of the money.
Posted on 17/04/2020 16:17 by JohnM20His achievement is fantastic. Without knocking the efforts of the likes of Comic Relief and Children in Need etc, what he has done is single handed. He has no massive production teams behind him who only achieve about double the donations he has got. All that he is likely to need out of this is a new pair of shoes and new wheels for his walking aid! He is an inspiration to us all.
Posted on 17/04/2020 21:12 by Bakers2I very gladly donated but I was surprised at the 'cut' the just giving page wanted/took. I paid but it was £1.50 for £10 donation, that stuck and I can't remember the other amounts. So they've made a very good wack of 'commission' and I hope they'll pass it on?? I won't hold my breath. I wondered why a fb advert for Virgin said their charity page was 'free'
It seems to me that cheap digital banking isn't! If I stick a tenner in a charity tin the charity gets a tenner..... if I walk into a booking office and pay cash I get my ticket for face value, if I order online they add a handling fee, either per ticket or per transaction, then postage if I don't collect! Sometimes you're not given the option and you have to buy online and take it on the chin!!
Sorry for going off topic, it takes nothing away from the raising of the money.
Posted on 18/04/2020 00:34
Bakers2
The Just Giving fees are, I think, quite modest giving the service they give to many charities that have their own Just Giving pages. It is a big undertaking but it can't be done for free. Also it saves many charities the need to have separate fundraising websites. Another advantage with sites like Just Giving is that you can elect to use Gift Aid (providing you are a tax payer) which considerably increases the value of your gift.
David
Posted on 18/04/2020 00:34 by DavidKlyneBakers2
The Just Giving fees are, I think, quite modest giving the service they give to many charities that have their own Just Giving pages. It is a big undertaking but it can't be done for free. Also it saves many charities the need to have separate fundraising websites. Another advantage with sites like Just Giving is that you can elect to use Gift Aid (providing you are a tax payer) which considerably increases the value of your gift.
David
Posted on 18/04/2020 08:29
Aren't just giving donating £100,000 themselves.
The gift aid wouldn't work for me. It kept comming up with invalid post code and it was most certainly valid. So the government got to keep their bit.☹️ I thought the site might just be overloaded, however gift aid was comming up for other contributors on that front page list.
Posted on 20/05/2020 10:34 by cyberyachtYou mean Colonel, I think. More in favour than his mediaeval namesake.
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