Tragic story

[DimPrawn]

To G. Brown: Less money on bombs, more on health. Less money on setting fire to foreign countries and more spent on heating our homes.

How about we divert this money to the needy?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...0m-a-year.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...D-bonuses.html

Official MoD figures showed a total of £287,809,049 has been paid out in bonuses to civil servants since 2003, the year Britain went to war in Iraq.


£288m would help a lot of sick children and £20M a year could probably be better spent than salaries for the top few at the BBC no?

[Diestl]

I have a daughter similar age, so I can understand the desperate position. I would rather give money to Cancer Research knowing that they are very close to cracking a cure, most research is at the genetic and protein level and it wont be long before this disease becomes a memory.

[Paddy]

How about we divert this money to the needy?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...0m-a-year.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...D-bonuses.html

Official MoD figures showed a total of £287,809,049 has been paid out in bonuses to civil servants since 2003, the year Britain went to war in Iraq.


£288m would help a lot of sick children and £20M a year could probably be better spent than salaries for the top few at the BBC no?

Well said DP. … and as for scumbag Mark Thompson put in place by an HMG coup d'etate to oust Greg Dyke. That has to be another thread.

[TheFaQQer]

I read in the Daily Heil that walnuts cure cancer. And so does a curry and coffee. I read it in a "paper" so it must be true.

[NotAllThere]

Consider a charity that doesn't use professional experienced fundraisers, and raises £1M per year. If it then hires a couple of professionals at £50K each per year, and is then able to raise £2M per year, isn't that money well spent?

You might feel that the £1M is more ethical, but for the recipients, it's not the percentage of what's raised that matters - it's the net amount.

While Robyn's story is sad, it not especially tragic, nor uncommon.

[TheFaQQer]

While Robyn's story is sad, it not especially tragic, nor uncommon.

I'm minded of the whole Madelaine McCann saga - sad but not uncommon, just marketed better.

[DimPrawn]

Consider a charity that doesn't use professional experienced fundraisers, and raises £1M per year. If it then hires a couple of professionals at £50K each per year, and is then able to raise £2M per year, isn't that money well spent?

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Or if they spent £100K advertising the charity on the web, TV, radio etc and pulled in another £1M, again that is money well spent.

I avoid the chuggers in the street and give direct to charities by Direct Debit to reduce their costs. But if using other methods increases their net take, then why not?

[RichardCranium]

I'm minded of the whole Madelaine McCann saga - sad but not uncommon, just marketed better.

with the minor difference that Robyn's parents aren't murdering her.

[minestrone]

It will be an unproven and experimental treatment she will be given.

"The treatment is only available in the US" is the same as "Nobody else would be so stupid to try it"

Sadly children do die and we cannot fix everything with money as people think.

[SantaClaus]

Made a donation.

If everyone on this board did the same instead of bickering, this poor girl would stand a chance.