I fully disagree. No one complains when an organisation commits money to staff training and development, invests in infrastructure and generally improves the business operations. If a charity does it, however, then it's a scandal.
Switch your brains on for five minutes, it costs money to stay operational, charity or not. I personally want a charity running like an efficient business, not some ramshackle collection of well meaning imbeciles

Is it just me, but the thought of discounting such a significant icon is abhorrent? Nice deal, but all profits, £4.50 from the retail selling price of £15.00 will be paid to The Royal British Legion. This means that only £1 is donated. I guess every £1 helps, but this sort of item should not be discounted in my opinion.

One last point is my grandad who passed a couple of years ago said that the great thing about the poppy appeal is that it used to be done with a quiet dignity which he said seems to getting eroded away with people seemingly wearing them as a fashion accessory rather than a symbol of remembrance.One thing which stuck out for me though was last year we went to look at the ceramic poppy wave display which was put on at the Yorkshire sculpture park.The amount of people who were taking smiling selfies in front of the display was sickening

support someone's salary. Don't be stupid people. These 'charities' pay themself first

Is it just me, but the thought of discounting such a significant icon is abhorrent? Nice deal, but all profits, £4.50 from the retail selling price of £15.00 will be paid to The Royal British Legion. This means that only £1 is donated. I guess every £1 helps, but this sort of item should not be discounted in my opinion.

You should buy one every year even if these metal ones last forever

I've wanted one of these every year as my paper ones always fall off and get lost after a few hours!! This way I can have a lovely poppy, contribute to a good cause and continue contributing each year :smiley:

Just a note it says all profit, but we don't know how much their costs are, or what their accountants say they are!

So you could be donating far less than you think.

Great deal but doesn't do much in terms of support.

Just Wearing one of these shows support

I know its not the full amount but its better than nothing :disappointed: heat added.

"The Poppy® Collection - Join M&S in supporting The Royal British Legion Remembrance commemoration with their beautiful Poppy Collection. All profits, £4.50 from the retail selling price of £15.00 will be paid to The Royal British Legion Trading Limited which gives its taxable profits to The Royal British Legion (Charity No. 219279) and Poppyscotland (Scottish Charity No. SC014096). For more information visit http://www.britishlegion.org.uk. "