Corruption in charities

I use to work for a Taxi company years back when I was younger, I was a telephonist and we had one well known charity who had an account with us. They would all be calling up friday and saturday nights looking for Taxis to and from their piss ups.... Nice to know someones donation is going towards getting them to the Pub ! This was going back 2005' but I am sure it still goes on today. They would also give their relations permission to use the account so they were all going to the pub on peoples donations.

I have never donated money to a charity since I seen this going on, this was at the time probably the biggest charity in Ireland. F them....

And thats why corruption in charities is so easy and I suspect prelevant,you give a small donation ,you have little or no interest in seeing where that donation ends up and are almost certainly not going to follow up any abuse you become aware of ,rather you resolve to never give to that charity or perhaps any charity again. I have been around the houses before on this and obviously expect to hear the one bad apple argument etc.What the Bothar case illustrates is if the fraudelent intention is there fraud can go on for ridiculously long periods of time.

in reality if you are asked for a donation how many people have either the time or inclination to drill down into complicated company reports before handing over their 10 or 20 euros offering.What you say is possible but not practiable for most .My main issue with charities is the financial relationship is practically if not unique.You hand over money on trust and get nothing in return .All other financial transactions involve a two way process,you pay for goods or services and receive something tangible in return,therefore if you are unhappy with the transaction you will know immediately unlike a charitable donation where it might take years for fraud to become apparent.

The problem is a lot of the rogue operators are the big charities and not some guy going around in hi-vis vest, a bucket and pretending to be collecting for a charity. Not saying that doesn't happen but if you look a Rehab, Bothair, Console all supposedly reputable charities getting state money and all have been caught up in scandal and I am sure I have missed a couple of there.

The only charity that I will give too and it is because I have seen the work they do is St Francis Hospice, the care, compassion and dignity they give to people both family and patients is second to none.

Reports saying that he has been found dead in tragic circumstances at his home in Dublin.

He was under investigation for sexual misconduct.

Was suspended from his role the last month.

That's an ill informed topic.

This man was Garda Vetted as are all ICHH volunteers. Same as the one I'm involved with. To try and make this an attack on soup runs is moronic. He had an allegation made against him over a month ago yet hadn't even been formally questioned.

Hadn't been arrested is what I meant.

An arrest would usually follow fairly quickly, charges take quite some time.

However that is well beside the point I was making. Somebody here used it to try and attack or belittle the work being done by these organisations.

Alot if not most of the various homeless charities should be looked at and gone through with a financial fine comb ,tens of millions being made by these charities with little or no oversight where people's money is going ,

Imagine having a charitable income of several million per annum ,yet all of your staff are nonpaid voluntary roles with people preparing food in House hold kitchens using food that's donated ,

Or paying long term hotel stays with little or no reason why or how long they are planning to live there.

Absolutely right , I'm working in homeless charities for years.

By the way I'm posting from my yaught off the coast of Monaco today.

RIP.

Unfortunately a tragedy like this was probably inevitable since we moved to trial by hashtag.