How much is a reasonable donation?

[Shropshire Seagull]

There have been a couple of threads on here about donations to the Asian Tsunami disaster. Some about celebs and some about Joe Bloggs football supporter and son.

So what is an acceptable donation? Some might say that the real answer is a much as you can afford, or as much as you think appropriate.

But how about using annual income as the measure. e.g. Shumacher donated £5m which I guess is about 1 month's income for him. Posh gave a grand which is probaly about an hour for her time.

If you've donated, don't say how much in £ but in terms of minutes/hours/days/weeks (whatever) of your income you've given.

 

[Cian]

I've donated. Timewise, it depends on what I'm doing, but it'd work out as about three hours fixing someones PC. That said, I'm not a PC World technician so its not a robbery price.

People who earn normal money and pay taxes can't usually afford to give 'a days income'. Its only people who earn stupid money and can somehow avoid a lot of tax who can.

 

[Hungry Joe]

Simple answer; anything.

 

[mrhairy]

Due to living expenses it is disposable income that counts. Obviously Formula 1 drivers, however generous do not have to worry about paying the mortgage and the electricity bills. I donated but gave my kids a quid each to put in the bucket at the Watford game. Really the price of a tea but we raised only 2.5K. Good effort but think it should have been more.

 

[Marshy]

whatever you can afford. Just think if everyone gave a fiver...
That would go a bloody long way.

 

[Artois]

But how about using annual income as the measure. e.g. Shumacher donated £5m which I guess is about 1 month's income for him. Posh gave a grand which is probaly about an hour for her time.

If you've donated, don't say how much in £ but in terms of minutes/hours/days/weeks (whatever) of your income you've given.

Why?

People should give what they want to give, not what society or NSC says we should.

"Ohh, I've given more, I'm a better member of the human race than you."


Donations should be kept to yourselves. Simple as.

 

[Blackadder]

Donate whatever you feel is right. After all, it's no one's business but your own.

I donated on the web site today, ensuring that the gift aid box was ticked. (Every little helps).

I will still chuck the odd pound or two into collection buckets.

 

[Braders]

if i see a dontation bucket , i throw in my loose change

every little helps as they say

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

People should give what they want to give, not what society or NSC says we should.

I agree, but there were a lot of people slagging Posh off (pardon the pun) for "only" giving £1,000 - I was just trying to put this into perspective with Shume's £5m and the whole Manure squad's £100,000

 

[Braders]

I agree, but there were a lot of people slagging Posh off (pardon the pun) for "only" giving £1,000

last time i checked £1,000 is a lot of money


and a grand don't come for free!

 

[Hungry Joe]

Posh gets slated mainly because she's seen as a self-publicising media whore with no real talent. In this case though, to criticise her for 'only' donating a grand is pretty low.

 

[Cian]

and a grand don't come for free!

Right, outside, Now! Firing squad is ready for you and Skinner for blatant misuse of the English language, and providing/using overly quotable phrases.

 

[Artois]

I agree, but there were a lot of people slagging Posh off (pardon the pun) for "only" giving £1,000 - I was just trying to put this into perspective with Shume's £5m and the whole Manure squad's £100,000

Why should she give more? If she feels that right for her, then fair play.


If only everyone was as giving for every disaster that happened, then the world would be a better place.

I'm not taking anything away from this tragedy. It is truely mindnumbing and the response and generosity has been amazing throughout the whole world.


People should donate what they feel they want to or what they can not what society says they should.

No one questions why celebrities don't give money to help other victims of disasters across the world. Hundreds of thousands of people die or are made homeless in disasters, natural or otherwise, each year. The majority of these come and go in the news without hardly anyone noticing.

Just because someone doesn't donate as much as someone else to this particular appeal, it's jumped upon.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

last time i checked £1,000 is a lot of money

To you maybe, but to Posh, IF its the equivelent of an hours work, that might be the same as £4.75 to you - is it still a lot of money?

Listen guys, don't get me wrong. It wasn't me having a pop at Posh & co., I agree that people should donate what they please (as I said in my opening post). I was just trying to put Shumacher's £5m and someone else's loose change donations into some comparable measure.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Just because someone doesn't donate as much as someone else to this particular appeal, it's jumped upon.

My point exactly ... maybe some feel she could afford more?

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

How much is a reasonable donation?

In repsonse to that; there is no such thing - how the hell are you supposed to quantify what people donate to a charity?

To my mind, this is a STUPID f***ing QUESTION.

Why on Earth would anyone pose such an impossible question? What people give is up to them. What is "reasonable" is an individual matter of consideration.

Why the f*** people are wasting time by asking such pathetic question is beyond my comprehension.

 

[Artois]

In repsonse to that; there is no such thing - how the hell are you supposed to quantify what people donate to a charity?

To my mind, this is a STUPID f***ing QUESTION.

Why on Earth would anyone pose such an impossible question? What people give is up to them. What is "reasonable" is an individual matter of consideration.

Why the f*** people are wasting time by asking such pathetic question is beyond my comprehension.

Exactly.

 

[Marc]

Why the f*** people are wasting time by asking such pathetic question is beyond my comprehension.

Well this is NSC remember!

 

[Brighton till i die]

the 5 MILLION POUNDS given by Michael Shumacher (sp?) seems pretty reasonable to me!!

 

[lost in london]

I don't think it's a stupid question, I gave about a day's wages.