Reply to: Genes for Jeans Day

[Old Greg]

I like Professor McGonagall. Feisty. I'd rather be her than goody-two-shoes Hermione.

Which was my exact point.

[TheFaQQer]

I like Professor McGonagall. Feisty. I'd rather be her than goody-two-shoes Hermione.

Hermione isn't a goody-two-shoes.

At least not in the fan fiction I read

[mudskipper]

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I like Professor McGonagall. Feisty. I'd rather be her than goody-two-shoes Hermione.

[TheFaQQer]

wouldn't that make you Hermione Granger?

Mmmmm ten points to Gryffindor.

[Old Greg]

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Should be ok. I used the standard font so she probably won't be able to find her glasses to read it.

[Spacecadet]

FTFY

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[Old Greg]

wouldn't that make you Professor McGonagall?

FTFY

[Spacecadet]

I always wear jeans to work on a Friday.

But tomorrow I've got my graduation so will be dressing up as Harry Potter (with a nice dress underneath).

wouldn't that make you Hermione Granger?

[Dactylion]

Typing on an iPad were we?

I don't think what chunk does could be called typing. It looks like he is using his fists rather than fingers.

[DaveB]

60.5% goes on charitable activities, so from your £2 it would be £1.21

Close with your < 10p estimate.

Less than that. Actual spend on charitable activities was £0.95m from an income of £1.85m so the percentage of your £2 that gets spent on what you think it will be spent on is 51%, or £1.02

If that spend is actually in the form of donations to other charities and the same relative spends apply then it's down to about 50p

Their classification entry states:

• MAKES GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS
• PROVIDES SERVICES
• PROVIDES ADVOCACY / ADVICE / INFORMATION
• SPONSORS OR UNDERTAKES RESEARCH
• ACTS AS AN UMBRELLA OR RESOURCE BODY

So a good chunk of what they get is not actually spent themselves but given to other charities.

[Paddy]

60.5% goes on charitable activities, so from your £2 it would be £1.21

Close with your < 10p estimate.

What is a "charitable activity"? Placing an advert in a newspaper? Doing a survey?

[TheFaQQer]

Q. What happens to my £2 donation?
A. Genes for Jeans takes their cut. What’s left over is donated to related charities in the UK or abroad. That 2nd charity will take their cut and will eventually be spent on anything from advertising to research. Paddy’s gestimate (based on other charities) is less than 10p
I call it a scam.

60.5% goes on charitable activities, so from your £2 it would be £1.21

Close with your < 10p estimate.

[TheFaQQer]

Check here:
Find charities - Charity Commission

You need to search for GENETIC DISORDERS UK

stupid Charity commission web site doesn't let you link directly to the appropriate data

Linky

[d000hg]

An inyeresting take on charity I wad told by a friend.

His works with a buy who refuses to give to charity for the resons you mention. Instead whenever he travels to a word world country wbar he does is this - finds a well deserving individual who has an interesting story to tell and has performed some favours for him.

Sounds more like goes and pays for some ad hoc hooker action to me.

[jmo21]

An inyeresting take on charity I wad told by a friend.

His works with a buy who refuses to give to charity for the resons you mention. Instead whenever he travels to a word world country wbar he does is this - finds a well deserving individual who has an interesting story to tell and has performed some favours for him.

He was in Cambodia last year. His Wickshore driver was saving up to study to be an accountant. He didn't have his own motor - he was renting it and that meant he didn't get to save anything. So, he went to an ATM, withdrew 500 quid or so and but the little guy a motor.

Typing on an iPad were we?