Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on November 19, 2010, 19:41:12 PM
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Here's a suggestion - every time you make a royal related post on here, you donate 50p to Children in Need.:D
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Brilliant idea H, that will either make a big contribution to a great charity, or make a few ongoing topics a bit quieter - a definite win win situation
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Originally posted by Highlander
Here's a suggestion - every time you make a royal related post on here, you donate 50p to Children in Need.:D
only if I can make sure my 50p goes to English Children :D
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If you watch the programme and don't get a lump in your throat listening to the stories, check your pulse, you may not be breathing.
Give what you can, please.
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Will do. Maggie has it all in order for our donation. I think I've made enough Royal references this week ;-)
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I would not give a penny to Children In Need. All those people working their butts off to collect £300 here and 50 grand there, and kids giving their £2 pocket money while Wogan was asking for our money but taking thousands to host it for years. Kick that two faced leech off and things should improve for Children in Need.
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Good point Keith but every charity has people who earn good money on the back of donations. Can you say that TW didn't earn his coin in relation to the money he helped bring into the CIN charity compared to any other paid charity worker?
What's the difference between someone working for a charity and earning 40k per year and TW earning 300k per year... and which one gives best value to the charity?
For the record I agree he is rich enough to do it for nowt but if you were the charity would you have me fronting it for 30k or him for 300k?
I'm not actually sure who paid him anyway. Was it the BBC?
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"Good point Keith but every charity has people who earn good money on the back of donations" stoop
Not every charity Stoop!- I am sure there are several in the Calis/Fethiye area who would be up in arms about that generalisation including the 3 C's - the Calis Children's Charity (the new name for the Calis Carnival Fundraising Group - hope you all like it!)).
We managed to watch four hours of the CIN programme last night but as it started at 9.00 pm here in Turkey there was no way we could watch the rest so will have to catch up sometime later. It still amazes me how generous people can be.
Our new committee's one regret is that we were unable to hold our annual Calis in Need Fun Night to coincide with the BBC fundraiser due to Kurban Bayram as this night always makes lots of money for the local Turkish children. However if anyone wishes they can always make a donation by Paypal through our website http://www.caliscarnival.com/en/donate.html
We have had ten applications in for assistance from various children's groups/schools from the money raised during the last year and we will be visiting them all in the next 3 weeks to see where the money can best be spent :)
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Terry Wogan took a fee of £9,000 from the BBC for the show every year until it was reported in the press, after this embarrasment in 2007 he decided to waive this fee for future shows.
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The point on Wogan is that the charity doesn't pay him anything to front CIN - his fee for the evening (over £9,000 the last time he was paid it) comes from the BBC - not bad wages for a night's work! He was the ONLY person paid a fee for being on the show. So the charity didn't invest anything or lose anything. Surely Wogan makes/made plenty enough from his many BBC TV and radio shows - money that ultimately we all pay - without getting £1000 an hour in the BBC's big charity event.
Most people would, if a fee was paid, donate that fee to the charity effort - especially if their job happens to be to ask the people who pay his wages to "dig deep". Even more so when he is someone on a salary astronomically higher than the people he is asking to "make a difference". Vile man.
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Originally posted by Jacqui Harvey
Terry Wogan took a fee of £9,000 from the BBC for the show every year until it was reported in the press, after this embarrasment in 2007 he decided to waive this fee for future shows.
Quite, but not embarrassed enough to donate any of the earlier 15 years of fees to the cause.
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Totally agree Keith. I, personally, would not give to this particular charity I hate all the over paid millionaire stars telling us to give. :(
Before anyone says anything, I give my time for charity events and I do not take a fee.[:X]
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I didn't donate to Children in Need because a millionaire superstar asked me to or told me it was a good idea. I made the donate to help under-privileged kids.
If you want to tell the poor kid that got a new bed, that I shouldn't have tried to help him because someone somewhere got a fee, then go right ahead.
Children in Need has raised some £ 500m for children. That's good enough for me.
It's blindingly obvious that famous people, who because of their fame tend to be rich, help raise the profile of the charities they support and add to that charities ability to raise funds.
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It is not a point about charities or them using famous people to raise their profile. The point is why Wogan gets paid (by the BBC) while no other staff or performers do. We fund the BBC, we were paying Wogan a fortune already. Why pay him another lump for appearing on CiN? If there is a valid answer to that, why didn't Wogan do what 99.9% of us would have done and made that his donation? The idea that the man telling me to put my hand in my pocket is getting paid 9 grand to do so makes me sick and stops me donating anything. I am sure I can't be the only one and therefore Wogan's £9,000 was very expensive to the cause.