Our Wonderful Brains - Alzheimer's Research UK FREE Event

Was misinformed on the doorstep about what I was signing up for. I thought a once off payment, so when they people called over the phone to confirm the monthly subscription I apologised and said I was only intending a once off payment. They said no problem and that they would sort it. A week later I get a notification that a direct debit was setup. I promptly cancelled it. All a bit too dodgy for me, avoid and help raise funds in a different manner.

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I was recently visited by two fundraisers. It's a worthwhile charity so I asked them how much of my donation would actually get used. They said that their overhead was something like 16% which seemed on the high side but acceptable. But then a disclosure statement appeared which said that they were going to raise about £1m and their fee would be 50% of that. That's totally unacceptable and I sent them off into the rain. Contact with home base yielded only platitudes.

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Beware requesting their brochure - you get a call from a very pushy salesman asking you, there and then, to sign up to a direct debit. I understand that money is needed for their research but had they sent me the pack I requested then followed it up I would have donated. If I were an elderly person requesting this information I would have felt completely bulldozed and probably given all my bank details to this caller. It was appalling - I thought the Law had been changed to stop this bullying by Charities, cajoling people to donate. It felt that the Alzheimer's brochure that I had requested was at the bottom of the caller's checklist of things he just blasted at me - all he was concerned about was getting me to donate money. Alzheimer's Research UK - adopt this approach at your peril.

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I was just visited by a cold caller on the doorstep. I asked if there were any leaflets or anything since I do give to charities but I like to do a bit of homework on them first. Unfortunately she didn't have any leaflets, just a laminated sheet. She didn't pressure me but wanted me to sign up to some sort direct debit or regular card payment, but I won't do that with a doorstep seller.

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