From: slider@anashram.com

Downing Street has said JustGiving will want to "reflect" on fees taken
for processing Captain Tom Moore's £32 million fundraiser for NHS
charities.

Captain Tom set out to walk 100 laps of his garden in Bedfordshire, before
his 100th birthday with an initial fundraising target of £1,000.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/downing-street-justgiving-fundraiser-fee-captain-tom-moore-a4435881.html

But now he raised more than £32 million, with the JustGiving page closing
on his birthday on April 30.

According to The Sun, the website took a £308,000 fee for hosting the fundraising efforts for NHS Charities Together of Captain Tom, who has
since been made an honorary colonel.

On Friday, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: "Thanks to the heroic
efforts of Colonel Tom Moore, an incredible amount of money has been
raised for hardworking NHS staff.

"The public, businesses and organisations have made extraordinary gestures towards our fantastic NHS and the voluntary sector.

"I'm sure that JustGiving will want to do the same where they possibly can.

"I understand that JustGiving's owners have made a £100,000 donation to
Captain Tom already and I'm sure they will be reflecting on The Sun's
story today."

The calls to donate the fees come on the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

On a page on its website dedicated to explaining its fees in relation to Captain Tom's fundraiser, JustGiving said 97 per cent of the money donated through the platform goes to the charity.

The platform said a 1.9 per cent plus 20p card processing fee is applied
to cover the card and money transfer charges set by banks and card
companies, which JustGiving is unable to waive.

The other 1 per cent of the donation goes to support JustGiving's
operating costs, which it said includes 150 staff.

Donors have the option to make a voluntary contribution to the site to
help support its costs.

The Sun reported the £308,000 fee had come from a 5% levy which had been
placed on the Gift Aid donations of the fundraiser.

JustGiving previously said the 5 per cent fee is charged to cover the
costs of claiming Gift Aid, but charities are able to opt out and claim it themselves.

Its website reads: "Because of our size and expertise, we're able to offer
a much cheaper and quicker way for charities to claim Gift Aid, than if
they had to employ accountants or extra staff to do it for them.

"We charge five percent of the Gift Aid total to cover the costs of
claiming it."

"This does not come out of the money you donate to any chosen cause and is supported by the charities that choose to use this service."

### - so are charities really any better do ya think? the percentage of
what 'they' collect and that they then keep themselves for 'administration-costs' & 'processing-fees', usually being a lot higher
than what this bunch charge on their fund-raisers for example? and in many instances have been proven to operate on the fine line between legal &
outright criminal!

or does this fund-raising s(h)ite (heh) really deserve to collect $375k
outta the donations to captain toms 2-week fund raiser, all the other fund-raising & charity sites across the board presumably doing/charging something very similar, if not more?

'para-sites' is what they 'really' all are huh; scabs sucking & preying on
the sores of humanity!

but, but, but, we'll send ya a cuddly toy & cute pupdates?! lol riiiight...

damn it's enough to make yer' friggin' skin crawl hah! ;)

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