Dispatches - Channel 4 - How to Stop your Nuisance Calls - 8pm Monday - FUNDRAISING

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How to Stop Your Nuisance Calls

Fed up with receiving repeated telephone calls asking for charity donations? Ever wondered why you keep getting called despite saying no? How did they get your number?

Dispatches goes undercover to reveal the secrets of the telephone fundraising call centres.

Telephone fundraising has helped charities raise huge sums of money, with an estimated £2 billion amassed for good causes.

However, this comes at a cost as some of Britain's biggest charities are paying private companies to raise money on their behalf.

Reporter Seyi Rhodes examines the increasing number of complaints made by the public about this method of fundraising.

Inside the call centres, Dispatches' undercover reporters discover a sales-driven culture where some workers are pressured daily to meet targets and donors are squeezed hard for their money.

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[PAWS]

Re: Dispatches - Channel 4 - How to Stop your Nuisance Calls - 8pm Monday - FUNDRAISI

I used to send a regular donation to a homeless charity. When we had a financial crisis I called them and told them I would have to stop the regular payment. A few days later a chap called and literally ripped in to me saying I had no idea what hardship was.:blah: I then told him he was a disgrace,the organisation should be ashamed of him and I would never give to that charity again. He absolutely, refused to give me his name despite my asking for it several times. He is probably working for a DCA now!!!!:censored:

[enaid]

Re: Dispatches - Channel 4 - How to Stop your Nuisance Calls - 8pm Monday - FUNDRAISI




Or give the phone to a three year old and tell her it's Santa :tinysmile_twink_t2:

[PAWS]

Re: Dispatches - Channel 4 - How to Stop your Nuisance Calls - 8pm Monday - FUNDRAISI

Classic! Don't have children but I could tell my Husband it is Kylie Minogue. He would probably wind up on a list!

[Kati]

Re: Dispatches - Channel 4 - How to Stop your Nuisance Calls - 8pm Monday - FUNDRAISI

My fella answers all calls in German, telling the caller they have reached the mental ilness ward of a hospital in Linz

[EXC]

Re: Dispatches - Channel 4 - How to Stop your Nuisance Calls - 8pm Monday - FUNDRAISI

Or give the phone to a three year old and tell her it's Santa :tinysmile_twink_t2:

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