That’s the spirit Seesaw. Wish I’d read that before donating to the cfm Christmas appeal last week.
The Food bank system is a convenient way for big business to clear it's conscience.
The Supermarkets have monumental amounts of so-called ' waste ' food due to massive over supply which would have ended up in Landfill. So it suits both them and the Government of the day to re-distribute it to the needy. And how The Trussell Trust have exploited it !
A CEO on over £80k a year, with a pledge from the Government to pour even more into this project.
The actual number of food parcels distributed continues grows faster than the numbers who use it as they quickly work out how to get multiple numbers above there allowance.
In many cases ' shopping ' for neighbours and making a few bob to subsidise the drug trade. When the wheels fall off, and they will, it will be the real needy who suffer the most.
A couple of years ago around this time of the year my next-door neighbour [ a semi disabled widow in her early sixties ]Who to be honest we.d never really got on with [mainly due to our parties and shoots etc] got into some shit with her benefits and by the time we found out about it shed been without any cash for a month we set up a couple of things for her one of which was the local food bank. It works a bit differently around here once you are referred they come to you with a box full of stuff and they then sit down with you and make a list and next time they come they try to match up what they have with what's on your list. She invited us round to see what the first box contained and to be honest, I .ve never seen such a load of crap in my life.
So my Doris insisted we take her down to Tesco we did and spent 150 quid its turned out to be one of the best 150 quids I .ve spent in my life. She offered to pay it back when she got sorted but i.d noticed what a great job she did with the plants and flowers outside her house so I said you do our front as well and we.ll call it quits. I was expecting a one-year thing but here 3 summers later and she's still at it.
But as I say I found out quite a lot about our local food bank operation. They actually go out and buy certain things that they need that people don't donate which surprised me a bit and that the guys that do the deliveries are actually paid by a different charity [ back then some of them were actually guys on the dole and in a supposed work placement ] and unlike most foodbank, operations they do actually distribute fresh stuff that the supermarkets give them even putting their own use by dates on and I thought that somebody who got their feet under the table with them could almost give them a shopping list each week. But i.m told they're actually quite ruthless if there are rumours of people taking the piss.
But the whole charity support thing round here is pretty substantial led it seems by a Charity called the Maundy Trust who seem to own half the properties on one of Accys main shopping streets using them when not let out to tenants as second-hand shops run by people who haven't a clue about the value of things I bought a mixing desk and a box full of sound eqpt for 80 quid [ and yes I did make it up to a hundred as I thought it was ridiculously cheap ] and hey presto i sold the lot on e.bay for almost 5 times that in less than two weeks.
That’s the spirit Seesaw. Wish I’d read that before donating to the cfm Christmas appeal last week.
Nice one DB - was it a guilty conscience though for entering the cash call register every day for the last month
Nice- not
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/18/snp-mp-crosses-fingers-swearing-loyalty-queen/
I bet the reaction by the other EU nations was one of horror after last Thursdays election.
They need us so once they see the perks and benefits that we will reap being out of the EU there will be rumblings of why they should be in it.
Did you see Denise Coates pay packet for the year that was announced today at £277 million?. Great stuff eh apart from the fact they restrict your account if you look like you might win a few quid.
Did you see Denise Coates pay packet for the year that was announced today at £277 million?. Great stuff eh apart from the fact they restrict your account if you look like you might win a few quid.
In fairness Bet365 are very relaxed when it comes to restrictions... They're one of the only ones I'm allowed to bet freely with nowadays. And their app is far easier to use than anyone else's.
IMO a bookie should be entitled to as much profit as they like, so long as they don't intervene with customers who might lose them money...