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Blue Cross animal charity uses dogs for mobile contactless fundraising
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BBC Report Charities in the UK have taken a bit of a battering in recent years as a number seem to have lost their way. Many seem to be big businesses rather than charitable institutions and Chief Executives are often paid extremely generous salaries. Fund raising can be aggressive to say the least and unfortunately good, well run organisations are suffering from public disillusionment with the guilty parties. Drumming up financial support is a continual battle and I hope that this initiative is successful. Who can resist a pleading look from a Labrador or Border Collie?
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When I was raising money for the LAA I came across some horror stories of unscrupulous charity activities. I was working for a really good firm that go out of their way to make sure that the good name of the charity on whose behalf they are working is not sullied by shady practice or pushiness. But, I know from colleagues who'd worked elsewhere in the sector that this was quite unusual. Like, for instance, we were always told, not to ask more than three times, and don't pursue thatmany times if you got the impression the potential donor was getting annoyed. We were absolutely not to pursue if we had any suspicion that we were dealing with someone vulnerable. And if we'd made a call and someone had gone for it on a monthly direct debit donation, but we were concerned that there was something off kilter - like maybe that person had some form of mild dementia, then we were to tell our team leader straight away and they'd pull the call and listen to it. I had one like that - the guy was very willing and gave me al his details, but there was definitely something not right, so I told my team leader, and she listened to it, agreed with me and they cancelled the order. They sent details to the charity for them to write to the donor if they wanted to, but it never went through as a direct debit, and we removed the name from out call list.
I had another call where the lady seemed totally fine, really chirpy and friendly and as soon as I said where I was calling from, she said, 'oh yes! yes, love, I'll help' but when it came to her bank details she started to get a little confused about what was or was not a sort code or account number and said her daughter usually deals with all that. That was that - I thanked her and said I'd call some other time when her daughter was about and we took her name off the system
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Very clever.
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There's dog people, then there's DOG people.
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Stella knows how to dog:
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"So God Made A Dog" God's particular gift to me, my visiting Labradog, is snoring at my side as I type. He's now thirteen and age has caught up with him over the last year or so. I hope that he can continue to enjoy life for a good while yet. You do miss them when they go.
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Yikes, scary. But 13 cases a year don't warrant any kind of panic.
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No, it doesn't, but it's flag for vulnerable people to be careful of French kissing dogs and cats. I sent that link to one guy who told me every time he kisses his dogs they get sick.
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