I agree it seems odd; any of the guesses as to why above might be correct. But I don't understand. Is it any more odd than sponsored runs, etc? It's certainly odd that someone doesn't give money to a charity, but does when a friend does something silly, but it's very normal, it seems that for many people, if it's a cause they would nominally support, having that minor reason to do something tips the balance from "I'll get round to it" to "here, have a bit". If mini-donations to a cause work, it seems hard to argue with it...
How come it's OK for charities to be religious or anti-religious, but it's not OK for charities to be "political"? Hell's bells. I'm very tired of the artificial and completely disingenuous distinctions, and I'm very tired of highly political organisations pretending not to be political.
The British (and Canadian, for that matter) legal notions of what constitutes a charity are archaic as well as being right-wing. Essentially, if you want to stop people falling down the stairs you're not a charity, but if you stand at the bottom with a pack of sticking plasters, dressed as Pudsey f***ing Bear, you are.
Even within that ridiculous situation there are anomalies. Help The Aged speak out regularly about government policy on pensions, fuel poverty, etc, but somehow that's not political because it's only your nan having a rant.
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The British (and Canadian, for that matter) legal notions of what constitutes a charity are archaic as well as being right-wing. Essentially, if you want to stop people falling down the stairs you're not a charity, but if you stand at the bottom with a pack of sticking plasters, dressed as Pudsey f***ing Bear, you are.
Even within that ridiculous situation there are anomalies. Help The Aged speak out regularly about government policy on pensions, fuel poverty, etc, but somehow that's not political because it's only your nan having a rant.
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