# National Giving Week site polls on popular charity questions

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/11/26/national-giving-week-site-polls-popular-charity-questions/
- Published: 2005-11-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Charities Aid Foundation’s National Giving Week’s website is running a series of
polls addressing common questions. The current poll asks “Charity street collectors–
foe or friend”?
The National Giving Week site has so far polled on the questions:

* Does buying a wristband for charity bring you closer to the cause?

* Charity mailshots… Just more junk mail?

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* Do you feel guilty when you say ‘no’ to charity?

* Have you ever volunteered your time for charity?

* Have you made a donation to charity in the past month?

The results are not statistically significant of course but this donor-focused site
suggests, not surprisingly, that street fundraisers and charity direct mail appeals
are not popular, and that wristbands don’t necessarily connect the wearer with the
cause to any degree.

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