Petition Stop charities from wasting money, given in good faith for charitable causes, on mailings to request increased donations

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We've all had them, sometimes daily. The letter from the charity, containing heartbreaking stories of poverty, cruelty or disease, thanking you for your regular donation AND ASKING FOR MORE. I want the Government to ban charities from asking regular donors to increase the amount of their gift, which is tantamount to blackmail - based on the premise that you are not giving enough and that it is your parsimony alone that is responsible for the suffering. Money that has been donated to a charity MUST be spent on relieving suffering and not redirected to fund raising. Mailings to people not already contributing would be exempted from such a ban.

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Date closed 20 September 2013
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