Did I just hear a lawyer on Radio4 talking about how he advises the uglinarks to handle the sanctions? Doesn't it seem vaguely wrong? We apply sanctions to hurt them, and then provide lawyers to find the loopholes in the sanctions.
I donated money to charity last year through PayPal, Thought it would be paid almost instantly, after about 6 weeks had an email from PayPal saying my contribution had just been paid, so if you want money to get there when it’s need, I would find another method. Of course, maybe they don’t work like that for all charities.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I made a purchase using Paypal earlier this week and tacked on £1 to the Redcross to help in Ukraine. I was quite surprised to see that it takes 4-6 weeks for them to donate the money but from looking it up they seem to collect the money for a certain charity for a given time period and then donate it in one lump when the time period ends. I guess it saves on having multiple small transactions and reduces fees or something? I imagine larger charities allow for the time taken for donations to be processed though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
That would concern me. In the treasury at the BS where I worked, the overnight markets made a lot of money. So if the money leaves your account, but is delayed before it hits the target account,an organisation holding say, 1m donations at a £1 a throw, could be gaining overnight interest.
I've used DEC for over a decade as I liked that it was a group of the most commonly used 'disaster' charities and saved me having to think about who to give my money to! If you monitor their site when 'stuff' happens around the world, they'll typically have an appeal at some point.
As an aside, I was listening (as I do) to Radio4 again and the Russians are claiming that the west is scripting this 'military action' and painting them as the black hats (a bit like the red hats in the Box Trolls). Why has there not been a motion within the UN to put in observers? Not peacekeepers, but just observers who can monitor what is happening in Ukraine - and who can call upon camera and satellite imagery? If Russia vetoes the request, wouldn't that in itself speak volumes?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Of course, maybe they don’t work like that for all charities.