Charity contracts

[Boney M]

Did a major project for a well known charity - real eye opener. Chuggers out on the streets begging for pennies are paying for senior managements BMWs. Programme director was the worst workplace bully I have ever encountered. Not nice.

Charity didn't want to pay my rate for an urgent project using the "we are a charity" excuse, their chairwoman taking out £250k or so per year btw. Now 9 months later the project is still being advertised.

WTS

[NickNick]

I did a year stint direct at a charity a few years back and can mirror what most others have said here. Rates were low but suited me at the time for a number of reasons. But on the plus side, it was a great environment to work in and payment terms were favourable, and in actual fact invoices were usually paid within a week.

[MicrosoftBob]

Did a major project for a well known charity - real eye opener. Chuggers out on the streets begging for pennies are paying for senior managements BMWs. Programme director was the worst workplace bully I have ever encountered. Not nice.

Seen similar, even a director having their mortgage paid for a big house in Hampstead whilst paying most of their stafff NMW for working in London, and enforcing weird rules that sacking anyone found not to have a vegetarian diet because one of the management was an animal rights extremist

[CloudWalker]

I wouldn't be keen working for a charity but remember charities are still a business at the end of the day.
If you remember the whole ALS Ice Bucket fiasco. Only about 27 % went into research, The rest probably went on Contractors and BMW's for the Directors

[eddie1507]

I wouldn't be keen working for a charity but remember charities are still a business at the end of the day.
If you remember the whole ALS Ice Bucket fiasco. Only about 27 % went into research, The rest probably went on Contractors and BMW's for the Directors

Not for me i didn't get the contract

[Taita]

Charity didn't want to pay my rate for an urgent project using the "we are a charity" excuse, their chairwoman taking out £250k or so per year btw. Now 9 months later the project is still being advertised.

Not surprised. It is a business with senior executives who will be poached if we don't pay the going rate, staffed by well-meaning low/unpaid volunteers!