Things like "children in need", "comic relief" or the adverts asking for £3 pound a month etc.
If everyone in the UK donated £1 per month (including children and OAP's), we would raise a guarenteed £60 million per month for charity, surely that would be better, im sure everyone could afford to donate £12 a year, what do you think?
2006-10-16 08:38:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Just to make it clear, it would be taken from either your wages, your unemployment benefit, childrens benefit and pension etc, government then dishes out the dosh, it would raise more money than all the tv shows put together £720 million guarenteed per year, and if you so wished, you could donate more.
2006-10-16 08:56:35 · update #1
That's actually a helluva good idea, yeah, I'd go for it.
2006-10-16 08:42:49 · answer #1 · answered by L6 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I already donate over £10 a month to the BBC in the form of a licence fee to pay the likes of Wogan a small fortune to babble on like he has terminal verbal diarrhoea. I was listening to something today and he had to talk over the bloody music. The government put the TV licensing out to tender for the use of the airwaves to transmit commercial TV - we win both ways - the government get licence money in instead of stinging us for more tax and we get TV paid for by advertising. When the government asked the mobile phone industry to tender for the airwaves for cell phones - they expected £2,000,000,000 to be tendered - the companies tendered a total of £20,000,000,000 - who does that belong to? Everyone, even the baby born in the hospital an hour ago with disability and needing care for life has a share in these assets. Add to that the licensing money from Oil in the North Sea, farmers drilling for water, radio station licences and all the rest of the natural resources the government licences on behalf of the people and all the needy should be well provided for.
2006-10-16 16:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How will you recruit people? With ads like this:?
Please give generously to the I-don't-want-to-know foundation.
Just one pound a month can help remove the pictures of starving children from your TV and replace it with an ad for Cillit Bang.
If you give us a gift of 10 pounds, it will help prevent an office joker from Hull from sitting in a bath of baked beans.
A gift of £25 will prevent a minor celebrity from murdering a classic pop song.
You'll become what you hate the most!
2006-10-16 15:53:26 · answer #3 · answered by kirun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I would go for it I always donate £10 or £20 to Children in need/Comic relief anyway so I'm all for it
2006-10-16 15:46:29 · answer #4 · answered by jennifereccles_uk 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think hat would be a wonderful .... I agree that there are people who cannot afford £ 3 a month but so many people can and it's a tiny amount !!!! Less then a pint of beer or a pair of cheap earings at clare's !! Actually a lot of people could afford it !! But then many people can't be bothered !! Well those people lift your bum off the sofa and give at least £ 1 a month to a charity. Also I think more people give money to pet charities !! I love animals but I think humans should get more money and they are more important ! I am 13 and give £ 4 pound a month to a charity form a £ 16 pound per month pocket money !! So people please give and make poverty history !!
2006-10-16 15:46:58 · answer #5 · answered by La parisienne ! 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hate the charity ads,ive already fostered an orphan and Ive just set up a debit for WWF to save the bears.At this rate I'll need my own charity.
2006-10-16 15:48:47 · answer #6 · answered by candyfloss 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes !!! Great idea! BUT........ Would you REALLY be willing to trust this incompetent Government with such a large sum of money? Don't you think they would TRY to find a way of using/making something out of it!! After so many lies,would they be honest enough for the job? The total sum would have to be held somewhere,making even more! I personally would not trust the Government if THEY had their fingers in the pie!!!
2006-10-16 18:28:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who would organize it, do PR & travel & take the time? Just as long as it's done as Charity is the best thing we can do as humans.
2006-10-16 15:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by spareo1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you don't like Children In Need, you don't have to watch it! In fact, why don't you get rid of your TV and donate YOUR licence fee to the cause?
And thanks, but I already donate to my own chosen charities on a regular basis and I don't need anyone else telling me how to give my money.
So, in short, the answer is as big fat NO.
2006-10-16 15:45:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋