Comments by "Ellie" (@ellie698) on "Grift aid: are political activists pretending to be charities? With Guy Dampier and Poppy Coburn" video.

  1. This is why i don't want to give money to any of them. I've worked for a charitable organisation. I've seen the self interest of everyone who works in them 😵‍💫 Too many people feathering their own nests, building their own empires, spending their own budgets to the max. Some good people worked there but the ones who rose to the top didn't really care if they were achieving the charity's aims but very good at writing bids and justifications for the money they got. So long as you're good at giving the impression you're doing something good and productive, it doesn't matter if you're actually doing anything good or productive. I've seen it first hand and it made me sick to my stomach. The charity i worked for wrote bids for government pots of money and were very successful at getting the money. They just laughed about it.
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  2. @johnturner1073  It was an eye opener. I wanted to join them and work for them for all the right reasons and I've worked as a volunteer for charities too. The volunteers in my experience, for the most part (there are always exceptions of course! that's human nature I guess) those volunteers have been good people with the best intentions. For instance, I worked as a volunteer manning the Samaritans phone lines. All lovely, genuine people and to be fair to The Samaritans, they run a rigorous training and selection process so only the best get through. I only have praise for that organisation. I don't know, but I think the figureheads of these large charities are probably good people too. It's the people who rise to the middle ranks, or the highest ranks of local branches, who are the bad apples. The good people with honourable intentions leave the organisations and don't go for the senior roles as they know they're in the minority and that they don't "fit". The wrong uns stick around and climb the "greasy pole" as far as they can go. You can't change an organisation that's rotten, singlehandedly. It's soul destroying to try to change a rotten culture, and also to watch the wastefulness and hypocrisy. I imagine that's how people working for public services: academia, the civil service, law and justice departments, the BBC and the like, must feel too. It would be interesting to hear from someone's perspective about that.
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