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    RTÉ to spend €855,000 on consultants to assist distribution of Toy Show millions – and they will be paid out of appeal money


    RTÉ to spend €855,000 on consultants to assist distribution of Toy Show millions – and they will be paid out of appeal money

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-to-spend-855000-on-consultants-to-assist-distribution-of-toy-show-millions-and-they-will-be-paid-out-of-appeal-money/a815048432.html

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    5. bucajack on

      My wife worked in charitable foundations for years and something people don’t often understand is that even though charities are non profit they really have to be run like a for profit business especially when it comes to management of donations. You need to pay well to get good people who know what the are doing to manage a Charity well.

      That said a well run charity will be extremely transparent about how your donations are used so you can see exactly how much is spent on overheads and how much actually makes it to the intended recipient.

      RTE has absolutely zero experience in managing a charity so it’s no surprise they are bringing in the experts. It’s not as simple as RTE dishing out the money. There is a process. Groups wanting a piece of the pie need to apply. There needs to be a paper trail. There needs to be reputable auditors hired. All of that requires experts and it’s not cheap.

    6. RobotIcHead on

      There is work and admin to be done on management and governance of the funds. You need to be careful with the money but the money can very quickly vanish with hiring of staff and consultants. But that sort of thing should be part of RTE wheelhouse already. What is the point of having charity appeal if you don’t have the capacity to manage the funds once you have them?

    7. GerKoll on

      855K over five years and 96.7% of the money goes to were it belongs/needed. Surprisingly efficient for RTE, got to give them that….

    9. ashfeawen on

      I’m trying to guess how many people they’d hire. If they hired 1 manager and 3 admin, they’d be earning 70k (manager) and 35k (per admin) each year for 5 years, which sounds like normal jobs. Does anyone have a better guesstimate?

      While being skeptical of RTE spending is wise, I’ve grown skeptical of newspapers creating big numbers. If we spent a fiver on toilet paper per month the headline would be “irish people to spend more than €1.5 billion euro on every day necessity until 2031 – and they’ll be taxed on it”.

    11. gentcore on

      At the end of the day this is why people have issues with charities and chuggers. If I give 20 quid I want all of it to go to what I’m donating to. That’s not realistic I get it. At least explain in detail how much of my 1 euro is eaten up by administration fees. If its below 80/20 then you can fo. ~4% fees and ~95% going to where it belongs is a great start, but how much does that get diluted down to when it goes to whatever charities? The end figure would be interesting.

    12. Any_Peace_1187 on

      Id love to see a forensic investigation into where all the millions went over the years

    15. sweetsuffrinjasus on

      What are the odds that the consultants are connected parties to staff that work in RTE?

    16. TheBatmanIRL on

      Well not a fucking cent will I give to that Toy Show appeal going forward.

    17. tinaweymouthjumpsuit on

      Is this to replace a company that currently do this job, or have they been doing it themselves to date? I can’t figure it out from the article.

    19. OddSignificance1093 on

      Did Marty eventually give the car back? It’s the little things like him “forgetting he had the car” that escalate into the bigger scandals from the infamous Rte family.