Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.

Cowfold Seagull said:

I was besieged three times yesterday by a group of youths, each wearing a hi viz jacket, espouting the needs of Great Ormond Street Hospital. I say three times because the first couple of times l was busy to listen to what they had to say, but they kept coming back. and they basically asked me to commit to paying a set amount of money to the charity each month.

Now I think everybody already knows the wonderful work, and the virtue, of what this particular hospital does, but the problem is that there are so many worthy charities in the world, and l cannot possibly afford to support every one.

I contribute to two charities as it is, the British Epilepsy Association, (of which l am a sufferer), and also Compassion, a Christian charity from whom we sponsor an underpriviliged little girl in Uganda.

I would also like to pick and choose any charities that l may wish to support at my leisure, rather than being coerced into it on my doorstep. Am l hard? am l the only person to feel this way? Silly, l know l shouldn't feel guilty for turning them away, but somehow l do.

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Goldstone1976 said:

Your guilt is, I think, entirely natural, and is, of course, why chuggers are employed. Rationally, one shouldn't feel guilt, but lots of people do.

If it helps, you can think of my donations to GOSH as partially yours, providing I can think of yours to the epilepsy charity and supporting the Ugandan girl as partially mine!

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beorhthelm said:

you already give to GOSH and most other headline charities, though taxes. government give near £15bn a year to charities in the form of grants, and mostly that goes to the big names. so dont feel bad when you brush off the chuggers (huge commissions not going to the charity anyway), support those groups you want to directly.

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Cowfold Seagull said:

I was besieged three times yesterday by a group of youths, each wearing a hi viz jacket, espouting the needs of Great Ormond Street Hospital. I say three times because the first couple of times l was busy to listen to what they had to say, but they kept coming back. and they basically asked me to commit to paying a set amount of money to the charity each month.

Now I think everybody already knows the wonderful work, and the virtue, of what this particular hospital does, but the problem is that there are so many worthy charities in the world, and l cannot possibly afford to support every one.

I contribute to two charities as it is, the British Epilepsy Association, (of which l am a sufferer), and also Compassion, a Christian charity from whom we sponsor an underpriviliged little girl in Uganda.

I would also like to pick and choose any charities that l may wish to support at my leisure, rather than being coerced into it on my doorstep. Am l hard? am l the only person to feel this way? Silly, l know l shouldn't feel guilty for turning them away, but somehow l do.

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