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Author	MrDrVlox
Comment	Because Salvation Army spend more on advertising instead and also have greater appeal to a wider and wealthier audience. Nobody is pressured into anything because first of all 1. It doesn’t work 2. It’s illegal and shelter is heavily regulated by the institute of fundraising 3. If you signed up and changed your mind you can cancel it instantly, the point is to get people who do it for a long time because they want to. If they don’t want to or can’t afford it nobody wants to sign them up. Your statement about which doors get knocked on is absolute mince. We chap high dem to schemes. High dem is usually over done and wealthier people generally are much more hesitant to help others because they’ll think hours and hours about giving money to someone but will buy pointless shit without a second thought. That being said high dem is often the most sought after group because while you meet a lot of pricks if they do sign up they’re a lot more likely to do it for a lot longer. Especially if they came from a different background but are now doing better. Like I said before for every £1 spend on fundraising shelter gets £4.50 so why you’d want to cut back is beyond me. Further still, why you’re trying to give advice on managing a huge organisation is even more ridiculous. I don’t have a conflict of interest I’m a student and this is a job I do because it’s a lot better than hospitality. The main difference here is that I actually know what I’m on about. If you don’t want your door knocked you can put up a sticker and it’s illegal for us to knock. I don’t get why you’re more upset at shelter for helping millions of people but having to interact with the public to do so than you are about the millions of people struggling to keep and heat their homes. Child homelessness in Scotland is the worst it’s ever been, when the rent freeze and eviction ban ends it’ll only get worse, housing in Glasgow is a mess and your problem is that shelter asks people for money?
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Created	Thu 29th Dec 2022 7:53pm
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Because Salvation Army spend more on advertising instead and also have greater appeal to a wider and wealthier audience. Nobody is pressured into anything because first of all
1. It doesn’t work
2. It’s illegal and shelter is heavily regulated by the institute of fundraising
3. If you signed up and changed your mind you can cancel it instantly, the point is to get people who do it for a long time because they want to. If they don’t want to or can’t afford it nobody wants to sign them up.

Your statement about which doors get knocked on is absolute mince. We chap high dem to schemes. High dem is usually over done and wealthier people generally are much more hesitant to help others because they’ll think hours and hours about giving money to someone but will buy pointless shit without a second thought.

That being said high dem is often the most sought after group because while you meet a lot of pricks if they do sign up they’re a lot more likely to do it for a lot longer. Especially if they came from a different background but are now doing better.

Like I said before for every £1 spend on fundraising shelter gets £4.50 so why you’d want to cut back is beyond me. Further still, why you’re trying to give advice on managing a huge organisation is even more ridiculous.

I don’t have a conflict of interest I’m a student and this is a job I do because it’s a lot better than hospitality. The main difference here is that I actually know what I’m on about.

If you don’t want your door knocked you can put up a sticker and it’s illegal for us to knock. I don’t get why you’re more upset at shelter for helping millions of people but having to interact with the public to do so than you are about the millions of people struggling to keep and heat their homes. Child homelessness in Scotland is the worst it’s ever been, when the rent freeze and eviction ban ends it’ll only get worse, housing in Glasgow is a mess and your problem is that shelter asks people for money?