Supporting Local Good Causes
Knights Templar Charity Events
The Knights Templars encourage Members to raise money for local charitable worthy causes. Unlike many organisations that raise money for worthy causes the Knights Templars do not allow administration fees or salaries to be charged against money raise, therefore every penny raised goes to the worthy cause it was intended for. With some charities only a few percent actually go to the intended worthy cause. This is because the charity bosses award themselves large salaries with expensive company cars & expense accounts; including hotel & restaurant bills paid for by the charity.
Knights Templar Charity Events
The Knights Templars encourage members to raise money for local charitable worthy causes. Unlike many organisations that raise money for worthy causes the Knights Templars do not allow administration fees or salaries to be charged against money raise, therefore every penny raised goes to the worthy cause it was intended for. With some charities only a few percent actually go to the intended worthy cause. This is because the charity bosses award themselves large salaries with expensive company cars & expense accounts; including hotel & restaurant bills paid for by the charity. The Knights Templars are trying to force changes in the law that would prevent individuals from profiting from charity and monies raised for charity. Some of the most famous charities have 'Fat Cat' Directors & Chairman's receiving huge salaries driving £200,000 = $352,000 Bentleys living it up on the well meaning donations given by genuine caring human beings giving what they can to charity.
Clothing for Africa Scam
Some charities go door to door collecting old clothes to send them to Africa or have high street shops where genuine volunteers work for the charity 'FREE OF CHARGE' (because they believe they are doing their bit for charity by working for free, giving up their free time to help others). People generously donate their old clothes or out of fashion clothes believing that the less well off people can buy their disguarded clothing at a reasonable charity shop price, or the clothes will go to Africa and be given to the poor. In the past 5 years charity shop prices have gone up by 75%, so there are much fewer bargains in high street charity shops any more.
What Happens Next
What people do not know is what really happens. First the clothes are graded into what will sell in the shop to the English market, and what won't sell because it is out of fashion. The money raised from the sale of the clothes in the shop go to the charity (The Fat Cat's salaries get the largest part of the monies). Then some small percentage of the money raised goes to pay for shipping of the remaining clothes to Africa Mombasa Kenya for example. The charity's agent in Mombasa takes market traders to the port where the containers are stored and sells them the bundles of clothes at 8 shillings a bundle (Each trader buys 10-20 bundles). The traders take the bundles to the local market and offer the clothes for sale 2 shillings per item for the first choice of an unopened bundle or 1 shilling per item on an opened bundle. The money goes back to England (TAX FREE) to pay the Directors & Chairmans 'FaT Cat' Salaries.
Why has this not been exposed in the newspapers or on TV?
These charities spend a lot of money advertising in national newspapers and television advertising campaigns spending £millions. What editor or broadcaster would run a story against one of the TV's or newspaper's major advertisers?