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Call me naive but why should the general public donate their hard earned cash for this serious law and order issue. Its those MP's and chief inspectors who were smiling and taking a 'look how good i am' photo oppotunity to sort out with tax payers money. Not through a charity fund !!!
Members of CAFC staff I guess they were members of the youth squad were butting into conversations with the bucket right in front of our noses. Not on Charlton in my eyes. Ok to have buckets out but not push it right in our faces.
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another point whilst I'm replying - the initiative is to raise awareness within schools using help and money from various companies and the public to support the cause - read the programme for more info regarding where money has been pledged from, and a few coppers in a bucket isn't going to make much difference! Its not just a one off bucket shaking initiative, its a programme that is already being rolled out in schools to show them that there is more to do than get involved in gun and knife crime and that football is one option of many.
Not having a go at the scheme Suzi but you should ask yourself why companies and the general public through donations should pay for it through donations.
I agree that those holding the buckets shouldn't have been rattling them at people, but so many people want to give money to causes like this, and its only giving people the opportunity to do so. I believe they made a lot of money in donations at the weekend in the buckets.
I've just made a donation on line.
Maybe if the educational establishment taught more about morals then we wouldnt be in the situation and maybe the people who carryout this crime never attended school reguarly.
A major company is putting somethign back into it's community, and that is a good thing, if it changes one kid from carrying a knief and using it, then the campaign has worked.
instead of saying the kids don't give a s*it, how about getting to them and explaining to them that they should rather than just giving up? this is why these initiatives and others are set up.
santa> they are targetting it in the communities that perpetrate it - stabbings in sidcup, plumstead etc - on the road getting into schools and running roadshows all amongst the borough - thats what they are doing! You're missing the point. The idea isn't to rustle up money in these areas, its to raise awareness in the local areas as to what they are doing in the schools, and if people want to help out by donating then do so. standing outside an estate with a bucket asking for money is a rather dim way of looking at this positive measure imho.
I understand the point you're making, however people make the same comments about the "Friends" of Hospitals who raise money for equipment etc. The fact is that our society functions partly on money raised from taxes and partly from voluntary initatives. If you go down the route of "everything should be funded by the state", first of all they will fund what they want, secondly, they'll waste half of it, and thirdly we wont buy into what is done and then we'll just sit back moaning when what we want done doesn't happen.
From a parents', citizens' and fans' perspective this is an excellent inititative for our club to have embarked upon. I don't see any downside whatsoever.
As Goonerhater says......we are right to at least do something....though looking back to my teenage days I thought I knew it all and didn't want to hear anything from anyone re how I behaved or reacted to my fellow youth, so I fancy this won't amount to much, though yes you/we have to at least try.
I doubt it will help tho sadly but good on em.
Why not? That bloody woman in red does every home game!!!
fair play to her though as she gives up an awful lot of her time to go around every pub in the whole borough every friday and saturday night - three times!
21 yr old shot and survived
scary. just got to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.