Home Fundraising Employee Reviews about "charity"

Pros

Good commission structure Ideal for people comfortable with door to door, face to face sales promotes fitness as a lot of walking Friendly and helpful colleagues and managers

Cons

Outside in all weathers Moral ambiguity about selling charity for profit

Pros

Easy job to get Work with some incredible characters Paid Travel Bonus scheme

Cons

Ultimately a Sales Job Awful weather and horrible people at the door Paid 5 hours for a 8 hour job when factoring in how early you have to be in office and how long it takes to get home. Sign ups are part skill , part luck Teams of low performers are normally put together making it difficult to progress. Some charities are easier than others , i.e. well recognised charities like BHF or Blue cross are easier to be on.

Pros

Will hire ANYONE, Made some pretty cool friends, weekly pay, if you want to learn how to lie to and manipulate people, this is the job for you

Cons

It's a numbers game, the charity lies to the company, company lies to staff, staff lie to people on the door, no job security, you could go at any time, don't recommend working here unless it's impossible to find anything else

Pros

none that I can find yet, Except the weekly pay.

Cons

They make you do two 8 hour assessment days without pay. They make you work 3 shifts without pay unless you stay longer than 30 days at the company. They make you come in for free. They only pay you for 5 hours work. Rest assured every single charity they work with will find out about them if they mess my pay around. This should be illegal. I'm just waiting. If they mess me around I will take full legal action. Note: They also do not give you a copy of your own contrat and make you tick boxes saying you received full uniform and equipment before you have, resulting in fines if you leave I guess I as they dock your pay for missing uniforms and equipment you never received,

Pros

Apparently there's this Wednesday breakfast thing where you get a free Mcdonalds. I never went as you have to go into the offices and then wait around for a while until your shift starts.

Cons

You feel like a pest. No one wants to sign up to same random charity with their debit card at 8:30 at night to some random guy knocking on their door. You may actually ( as I did) object to some of the charities, practices and false sense of urgency given to people when pitching. You're not 'doing a good thing', this is a business, which simply uses charity to propagate itself. It is profit making, this is not a charity itself, it's a business charities reach out too. Naturally, basically all senior staff and employees only care about getting more people to sign up to the charity to increase their bonuses as opposed to actually caring about any charitable activities.

Pros

None. The place was very badly run. Glass door must warn people not to go for such a job! Give people false hope if that can be seen as a pro?

Cons

Absolute con! Don’t get paid all the hours you work. Asked to arrive 2 and a half hours earlier from when you start getting paid to do training and then to travel. The 6 step training is assumptive and management were pressuring fundraisers to push and get more sign ups. The way it was done was bullying and very unethical. Representing charities?? I think not Treats fundraisers unfairly and send them to areas where they have very little chance of doing well. They most certainly take advantage of workers that are being put in vulnerable positions. Would not recommend