A question of manners

I’ve been asked to sponsor a friends sponsored cycle. I clicked onto the just giving page, and found that the charity is one I already make a fairly substantial monthly contribution to.
Should I

  1. Donate to her cycle despite this.
  2. Not donate.
  3. Ask her does she have another charity.
  4. Give her cash.
  5. Stick my thumb up my hole.

Donate.

What’s your objection to donating? If you already donate to the charity you must think it’s a good cause. If it was for a cause you didn’t already donate to you’d donate the money no problem I’d imagine. I think you are just over thinking this

throw over a few bob and don’t be virtue signalling

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Would she be a looker?

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You give enough to that charity - point this out and move on. You wouldnt donate more than once to the fuckers on the streets with their canisters would you?

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Climate change protesters?

No.1 unless you want to be seen as Billy BigBalls.

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Donate to fuck, you’re supporting her efforts

It’s a major multinational operation and recent scandals have left me wary of such ventures. I’m. Perfectly happy that they get more than enough from me already, so, in effect, I’m just giving money to grease the wheels of my extended social group, which is cowardly really. This is the problem.

Surely it’s the monthly subscription you should be cancelling if you are wary of the organisation rather than the one off :see_no_evil:

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Genuinely, in what way is a few quid to this charity “supporting her efforts”?
She’s going to do it anyway.
I’d rather donate elsewhere.
I’ll go with the consensus here.

I should mate, I in part never got round to it, and in part think it’s not necessarily fair to tar them all with the same brush.
I was once on the plane beside a lass who worked for unicef in Geneva. I asked what the actual percentage of non administration money which went to the cause was (it was a topic at the time, and was just the way the conversation went) . She looked at me like I was mad, and said she had no idea.

Give her the equivalent of 3/4 months and cancel the subscription. Everyone’s a winner.* good man.

Apart from the charity. And possibly the sex workers of some countries the charity operates in.

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Pay up

OK mate. Will do.

Do whatever you like and don’t look for input from strangers.

It would have to be “substantial donation” of course.

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I wouldn’t give NOGRA a bob myself.

We it seems a lot to me. Not to others I’m sure. Again, I wonder if it isn’t just paying to ease my conscience, and as such, is in fact entirely selfish.