Now that RNID have been chosen as charity of the year, not by deaf people, of course, but by the CO-OP (who didn’t ask us, of course,) they have launched a fund raiding pack with details of what the money will pay for. They have left out a few details, so I have helpfully filled them in for you at the end of the list.
£50 Provides a basic toolkit for a Hear to Help volunteer to show new hearing aid users how to maintain and clean their hearing aid.
£100 To visit someone in their home and talk to them about making the most of their hearing aid and how to maintain it for themselves.
£250 To visit five people in their homes for a quick hearing aid check and a chat.
£500 To carry out thirty hearing aid maintenance tasks, such as battery changes, at community centres
£120,000 To pay the hearing chief executive’s salary for one year.
£160,000 To pay the salary of 2 hearing members of the first division of the senior management team for one year.
£210,000 To pay the salary of 3 hearing members of the second division of the senior management team for one year.
£490,000 To pay the salary of the all hearing senior management team for one year.
Please bear in mind that the above are conservative figures using the bare minimum according to RNID’s annual report and financial statements for 2008, page 25.
As Fintan has pointed out in his blog, all the things for deaf people in that list are already available on the NHS free of charge. So the taxpayer is being asked to pay again for something that they already fund.
The next time you are accosted at the Co-op by people in fancy dress and pyjamas wielding buckets and asking you to toss your loose change in, point out that you have enough trouble covering Sir Fred Goodwin.
Dead or Deaf ? ...erm... tough call !
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Another point, Hear to Help = uses volunteers. Not even I could rack up those expenses.
Mereckons going to fund an organisation's core costs ... but misleading advertising, etc. Hearies being clueless just buy it.
Some idiots banged on my door yesterday for this red nose farce. I told them if they can prove to me no money goes to the RNID,RAD, or any 'subsidiary' of those then I might contribute.
What we need is more deaf people to go to the co-op and Sainsbury's et al and tell them they don't support begging. Perhaps if they actually MET deaf people and discussed it instead of going to the RNID....
The main problem is the RNID have infiltrated every group there is, so have a finger in every funding pie. Even the BDA has to work with them.
Deaf need to do what I have done, that is, write and contact the co-op explaining the deaf side of this. It's time we spoke to the people raising money, not just complaing in the wind at the RNID, tackle their fund raising and force it to be inclusive and (To quote the Co-op's declaration)be more ehtical. I suggested the co-op retain the funds raised and offer strings to the RNID, it must be used to start a training scheme to empower deaf people up the coporate RNID ladder, and not just pay for 'Celebrity Liason' staff at the RNID.
MM said, "What we need is more deaf people to go to the co-op and Sainsbury's et al and tell them they don't support begging. Perhaps if they actually MET deaf people and discussed it instead of going to the RNID...."
First off I am not deaf, so the deaf/hard of hearing can choose to read or not. The quote above shows that most people on this page no nothing about the Co-op and it's aims. MM (Mickey Mouse)you talk about the fund raising that I was pesonally involved in as having no deaf people. This is hinted at when you said the things above, well my friend I organised a Golf Tournament that raised about £1300, in which there was a deaf team entered. Not only that but the area organiser was also deaf, on the day it's self many of the volunters were deaf/Hoh.
So firstly get your facts right, those deaf/hoh volunteers worked their asses off that day, just for people like your self belittle their efforts.Also it has been mentioned that all the things that the RNID provide is available on the NHS, that all depends on where you live, it is that postcode lottery thing again. I am myself living with Parkinson's, and a fast failing heart, all before my 48th birthday, but I do not whinge about it, No! I get off my arse and do something constructive. If the RNID is robbing the deaf of funds, that should be used else where well go public, let people know what is happening. I only found out by accident and landing on this site, so your message is only getting through to about 0.00005 per cent of the public. Or are you the type of people who sit on their own little forum moaning that, this should be done, and that should be done, WELL GO OUT AND BLOODY WELL DO THEM.
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