I think most charities trustees are required to be unpaid.
Oh and the charity comission is a very powerful organisation. They were the guys who took down Abu Hamza.
I dunno I've worked for and with a view charities. And other than being a bit conservative in maintaining surpluses. I've not been aware of much corruption or scandals.
Actually trustees on charities do very little. It's the execs who get paid the big bucks and have the real power.
Quote: sootyj @ April 12 2012, 11:59 PM BSTReally how much should a charity chief exec get paid?
Half the public sector wage or a quarter the private sector?
How about staff?
I am well aware that most charities do not pay generously to those who actually do the work, but I am not sure that applies to executive staff; but don't get me started on executive pay. I have met and worked for some of the highest paid and most sought after executives in both the private and public sectors and to call them clueless, charmless, useless arseholes would be bordering on flattery.
I've met the execs of the last couple of charities I worked for and thought them well worth it. I've yet to meet a manager in the public sector who I'd trust to wipe their own bum or make a sandwich and certainly not both.
It's a difficult and important job. Or should we run the country like a Kibbutz with everyone swopping jobs every 6 months and eating in the canteen? Times up as PM for you Davey C time for you to swop with Silas the pig farmer.
Quote: sootyj @ April 13 2012, 12:08 AM BSTI think most charities trustees are required to be unpaid.
They get to play with millions of pounds of donations, they don't need to have an official salary.
The Charity Commission is a government quango, no doubt populated by those who've been raised in the corrupt charity culture and are linked in with the whole cycle of shifting government responsibilities to charitable organisations. It's also a fast track to getting a knighthood and other honours.
And let's not even mention the lobbying side of these organisations and their political or religious agendas.
Oh and here is a classic case in point for the easily adaptable charity laws in the UK -
Renegade is there anybody you trust anymore?
And charities like any other institution have a duty to make the best use of their funds. Again its rarely the trustees who make these choices.
Health Lottery silly example. Its just a lottery.
Better one Church of England trys to divest its self of funds in naughty state of Israel and those who support it. Its accountants overruled Rowan Williams, as if they got rid of shares in Caterpillar tractors they'd have to sell Westminster.
Quote: sootyj @ April 13 2012, 12:22 AM BSTRenegade is there anybody you trust anymore?
Not when large sums of money are involved. No.
So we should live in an atomised world of small self contained communities?
That makes you an anarchist
How are them dreadlocks coming on hippy?
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/04/11/5-year-old-brings-heroin-to-school-in-connecticuit/
Quote: sootyj @ April 13 2012, 12:37 AM BSTSo we should live in an atomised world of small self contained communities?
That makes you an anarchist
I think you'll find it makes me a libertarian - and I don't even like books.
Nah libertarians still believe in some institutions such as the military.
Hippy.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 12 2012, 10:51 PM BSTWhat will happen if rich people don't give money to cancer research? Probably the same thing as if they didn't, we'd still die of f**king cancer.
Good point.
Cancer Research seems to have been around since the dawn of time and have they moved us one iota nearer to a solution?
I know not but it wouldn't appear so.
Quote: Oldrocker @ April 13 2012, 12:55 AM BSTCancer Research seems to have been around since the dawn of time and have they moved us one iota nearer to a solution?
Most of the new breakthroughs come via the big drug or medical companies who are in the business of curing diseases to make money.
Macmillan Cancer Research has just opened a new centre in London, but all of the technology has come from private companies in the USA - including the portable chemo bags and the sci-fi named Cyclotron that fires protons at cancer cells.
Even though it's called the Macmillan Cancer Centre, they only supplied 10% of the funding. I guess branding is everything.
I thought they spent most of their money on nurses, advice and education?
Which may not be all whizzy and fancy but long term saves more lives.
Easier to tell a million to check their junk regularly then irradiate one scrotum surely?
Exactly so. (to RC)
Cancer Research doesn't seem to be doing much useful whereas Macmillan are.
I confess to feeling a bit guilty now because I used CR free will writing service in exchange for a small legacy. 
Nice "satellite launch" North Korea; hopefully your upcoming nuclear test is equally successful. Too bad your citizens can't feed upon failure or they'd be as chubby as their "Great Successor."
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 13 2012, 1:08 AM BSTMost of the new breakthroughs come via the big drug or medical companies who are in the business of perpetuating diseases to make money.
true