Bogus Bags - A Charity Shops Struggle

[metalman 21]

Now they are run as big businesses, charities most certainly do have staff, and plenty of them at the top end of the organisation make an extremely large amount of money out of it - there was a table in the press not long ago showing how many in each charity were paid a six-figure salary. The people in the shops may be volunteers but don't be fooled, a fair amount of your money goes to fat cats at the top just as surely as if they were banks or energy companies.

[the_bloke 17]

But they don't have "staff" in the true sense of the word. They have volunteers willing to give freely of their time.

 

BHF, seeing as it was mentioned, have 2700 paid staff and over 24000 volunteers. They have over 700 stores that made £28 million in profit in 2012, which averages £40,000 per shop. Retail accounts for 22% of income.

 

Don't forget they don't pay corporation tax, don't have to worry about VAT and only pay 20% business rates.

 

That's far more than a few old ladies and students doing a few hours a week.

 

No, I'm not some old curmudgeon, I'd rather avoid the middle man (and the tat) and just give donations directly.

[Faith Hope 0]

On 10/04/2014 at 15:37, minddevon said:

We are very disappointed to hear this reaction to charity shops. We aim to raise as much money as possible to help people with mental health problems and at only £1.50 for a book and most of our CDs we do not consider ourselves over priced and are sorry you feel this way. Our records are also very cheap at £1 or lower - a price most customers would consider a bargain!

£1.50 for books and CD's we sell ours at 50p each 

[alchresearch 214]

4 hours ago, Faith Hope said:

£1.50 for books and CD's we sell ours at 50p each 

That was over five years ago.  

[desy 10]

They queue up on a weekly basis to put bags through our door sometimes two a day