Top up payments controversy hits donations
Howard Lake | 2 December 2013 | News
The controversy over top up payments from charitable funds going to senior hospital staff has hit donations, according to Fundraising Ireland.
Fundraising Ireland’s chief executive, Anne Hanniffy, told the Irish times that its members were reporting people cancelling their charitable donations and that appeal funds were down.
Chief executive Anne Hanniffy said the revelations were having a “disproportionate and unfair impact” on the funding efforts of charities and people reliant on such charities.
She made her comments after it emerged that money raised by charitable company Friends and Supporters of the Remedial Clinic, which generates funds from a lottery, were used to top up the salaries of senior staff at the Central Remedial Clinic.
“This is concerning for hard-pressed organisations so openly reliant on public generosity and support,” Ms Hanniffy said.
“It is doubly concerning when the source of people’s frustration is an issue which has absolutely nothing to do with the way in which the vast majority of high quality not-for-profit organisations are funded and operated.”
She said Fundraising Ireland believed transparency, accountability and regulation were vital to any institution. “We owe it to donors that their money goes where they expect it to go.”
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.