Oxfam have a sale. It's a bit of an odd (and in my opinion fantastic) way of having a sale.
Pay half for a goat. You don't give half a goat. How it works ....
A partner of Oxfam will pay the other half and possibly more so donations given in the sale have an even more life changing poverty busting impact.
I think it's better than another candle, socks, etc which can be bought cheap but has anyone ever opened such a gift and felt pleased? I can't say I have.
Good charity fund raising appeal by a member of staff of Oxfam :smiley: Merry Xmas :smiley:
- jonnithomas
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Plunger07
10 Dec 166#2
Does the goat come chilled or frozen ?
shelat to jonnithomas
10 Dec 163#14
the charity brings in money, it has to run like a business in order to suceed. if you dont offer a good salary then a very qualified person will not apply. PMs dont generate money in comparison.
LesD
10 Dec 163#5
With 25% of its income going on admin. costs, Oxfam needs all the help it can get!
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jdplly
11 Dec 16#20
Love this idea, thanks for posting :smiley:
jonnithomas
10 Dec 16#19
Oh, yes, of course his job for Oxfam isn't full time. In recent years he has served as Vice-Chair of AMREF UK, the African health charity, as a board member of Accenture Development Partnerships, as Chair of the board of charity Revolving Doors and as trustee of BRAC, the Bangladesh-based development agency. Is he voluntary in any of those roles or does he receive a salary for all of them to go with his six figure Oxfam salary ?
PG9999
10 Dec 16#18
I don't. I do support the charity but I don't work there. I never have done.
jonnithomas
10 Dec 161#17
PMs don't generate money ? They generate and spend huge amounts of money. They also have huge responsibilities including having staff in various dangerous environments around the world. They also run an organisation that makes the role of Oxfam look like chicken feed.
Oxfam is a good organisation but don't make ridiculous claims about it please.
jonnithomas
10 Dec 161#16
Ohhh PG9999 says....
so this listing for a 'sale' is actually self promotion to raise money for Oxfam then by an employee of Oxfam ! I don't think I noticed that in the opening post. Surely it would have been fairer to actually state that you work for Oxfam and it's simply a fund appeal ?
PG9999
10 Dec 162#15
My thoughts precisely. If people use this as a reason to give to an alternative charity then fair enough. Some (not all) use it simply to avoid contributing to any charity.
jonnithomas
10 Dec 161#11
It is a good charity but it seems excessive that in 2013 the CEO earned £120,000 !!! I don't know what the current salary is as unlike some charities they don't seem to publish senior salaries.
Compare that salary with the PM or cabinet ministers salaries rather than business CEOs and it does seem excessive for the scope of the job..
shelat to jonnithomas
10 Dec 163#14
the charity brings in money, it has to run like a business in order to suceed. if you dont offer a good salary then a very qualified person will not apply. PMs dont generate money in comparison.
PG9999
10 Dec 161#13
What’s the charge? That our bosses are fat cats, trousering donations that supporters and donor governments fondly think are going to relieve poverty. Cue pics of NGO execs in suits and (horror!) smiling (they clearly don’t care about the poor).
And the defence? As former Oxfam CEO Barbara Stocking pointed out on Radio 4 when the story broke, her successor (and my current boss), Mark Goldring, has a big job by any standards: multitasking between running a 700 shop retail chain, managing 5,000 employees and 20,000 volunteers, a £360m budget and ensuring the safety of staff in some of the riskiest places on earth. It doesn’t always work, as Stocking recalled – for a start, people get killed (on her watch, in Afghanistan).
The defences usually also include lots of management blah about salary reviews and benchmarking, and statements like ‘for every £1 donated to Oxfam, 84p goes directly to emergency, development and campaigning work. Just 9p is spent on running costs.” which I fear no-one reads.
The attacks touch on a pretty profound identity crisis for anyone working in aid. Is it a career or a vocation? People working for charities are not saints, but really pretty normal, mainly middle class types. They have partners, kids, many drive cars. We go on holiday (I know, shocking isn’t it?). We worry about getting old, pensions, all that stuff. There is the odd ascetic Mother Teresa type (I met some fantastic ones while working for CAFOD), but by and large we don’t live in convents/monasteries – which means mortgages.
PG9999
10 Dec 161#12
A post about the CEO salary.....
If you choose a different charity over Oxfam then so be it, I completely respect that. If however one chooses to give the general 'be in landfill within the week' rubbish stocking filler over this - I don't get that. For those poking fun at the post I just think it's unjustified. Still, thank you all for looking.
Merry Christmas people
SCOUSEKEVIN
10 Dec 16#10
Some Charity Management are on big bucks, always do a bit of research so that your donation is not funding someones Limo.
backinstock
10 Dec 16#9
A goat?
Are you 'kidding'?
Any turkeys? The wife fancies turkey for Xmas this year.
(great charity though)
bunny_boiler
10 Dec 16#8
Going rate for goat meat....
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Bargain! I wonder what type of gravy I should use though? Christmas dinner sorted!
With 25% of its income going on admin. costs, Oxfam needs all the help it can get!
DavidL
10 Dec 16#4
And 11% Quidco!
Plunger07
10 Dec 166#2
Does the goat come chilled or frozen ?
Brianliptov to Plunger07
10 Dec 16#3
i reckon it's on the hoof :wink:
PG9999
10 Dec 161#1
Goat £25 ..... now £12.50
Safe water for 100 people £100 ... now £50
Goat family £75 .... now £37.50
Fix a well £22 .... now £11
Girl power £12 ... now £6
Long life learning £10 ... now £6
Opening post
Pay half for a goat. You don't give half a goat. How it works ....
A partner of Oxfam will pay the other half and possibly more so donations given in the sale have an even more life changing poverty busting impact.
I think it's better than another candle, socks, etc which can be bought cheap but has anyone ever opened such a gift and felt pleased? I can't say I have.
Good charity fund raising appeal by a member of staff of Oxfam :smiley: Merry Xmas :smiley:
- jonnithomas
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Latest comments (20)
Oxfam is a good organisation but don't make ridiculous claims about it please.
so this listing for a 'sale' is actually self promotion to raise money for Oxfam then by an employee of Oxfam ! I don't think I noticed that in the opening post. Surely it would have been fairer to actually state that you work for Oxfam and it's simply a fund appeal ?
Compare that salary with the PM or cabinet ministers salaries rather than business CEOs and it does seem excessive for the scope of the job..
And the defence? As former Oxfam CEO Barbara Stocking pointed out on Radio 4 when the story broke, her successor (and my current boss), Mark Goldring, has a big job by any standards: multitasking between running a 700 shop retail chain, managing 5,000 employees and 20,000 volunteers, a £360m budget and ensuring the safety of staff in some of the riskiest places on earth. It doesn’t always work, as Stocking recalled – for a start, people get killed (on her watch, in Afghanistan).
The defences usually also include lots of management blah about salary reviews and benchmarking, and statements like ‘for every £1 donated to Oxfam, 84p goes directly to emergency, development and campaigning work. Just 9p is spent on running costs.” which I fear no-one reads.
The attacks touch on a pretty profound identity crisis for anyone working in aid. Is it a career or a vocation? People working for charities are not saints, but really pretty normal, mainly middle class types. They have partners, kids, many drive cars. We go on holiday (I know, shocking isn’t it?). We worry about getting old, pensions, all that stuff. There is the odd ascetic Mother Teresa type (I met some fantastic ones while working for CAFOD), but by and large we don’t live in convents/monasteries – which means mortgages.
If you choose a different charity over Oxfam then so be it, I completely respect that. If however one chooses to give the general 'be in landfill within the week' rubbish stocking filler over this - I don't get that. For those poking fun at the post I just think it's unjustified. Still, thank you all for looking.
Merry Christmas people
Are you 'kidding'?
Any turkeys? The wife fancies turkey for Xmas this year.
(great charity though)
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Bargain! I wonder what type of gravy I should use though? Christmas dinner sorted!
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/how-we-spend-your-money
Safe water for 100 people £100 ... now £50
Goat family £75 .... now £37.50
Fix a well £22 .... now £11
Girl power £12 ... now £6
Long life learning £10 ... now £6
Thanks for looking.
Have a lovely Christmas