Summary
It's that time of the year when only the hardest hearts resist an appeal to dig deep into the wallet - or handbag - to help the less fortunate. Who begrudges a fiver or a tenner, especially in the middle of the Christmas period and in the wake of the Indonesia earthquake disaster? But the festive spirit hardly prepared me for the letter which hit my doormat the other day.
'Please give pounds 5,000 to support a poor pensioner for the rest of their life', it said. The charity, the Universal Beneficent Society, even named the needy person, sadly ignored by her family, awaiting my cash.See the full content of this document
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Give a Bit and Do Your Duty
While a commitment on this scale is daunting to someone like me within sight of a pensioner's bus pass, it is a useful reminder that charity is much more of a hard-headed business than it used to be.
Givers too often ignore this fact. IFAP (In...See the full content of this document
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