Why do all the Goal adverts on the radio sound like they're from the 1940s?

Help out if you want to.

Panicky person on satellite phone filter.

Googling 'GOAL charity' and 'fraud' brings up interesting results. Maybe there's other, more reputable charities you can donate to?

Do your due diligence and find an organisation you can support.

The aid workers have families to support and rent to pay.

Stop making excuses to not help the victims of earthquake.

A lot of very angry people.

There are threads on the Radio and TV forums with tens of thousands of posts complaining about ads. The psychology is to get the ads noticed, like the Goal ad has been by the angry man. The ones which go unnoticed are the least successful.

Already mentioned this on the things that triavally annoy you thread, they all do it, make it sound like the appealer is on the ground and speaking down a phone line in the midst of the disaster. I imagine that it's a deliberate ploy to encourage donations, doubt they're actually genuinely there.

No one is denying that it happened, what galls me is the pouncing upon of natural disasters by charities to bolster their significant reserves. Charities need disasters just as much as disasters need charities. Charities are businesses like any other, they advertise to bring in income to keep the business afloat and employees in employment. They provide a service the same as any other.

As has been proven in several scandals here a lot of those that are engaged in providing this service are more interested in providing for themselves on the back of the understandable empathy of humans who wish to help others. The whole industry stinks to me so i don't contribute.

Do you accept that it's actually an industry so?

I haven't seen any evidence to suggest it doesn't affect all of them.

Many of them seem to be small local operations. With no employees, and all income derived from donations. That was from a quick look at the details on the Register.

Is our contribution of nearly €1 billion from our taxes EVERY YEAR not enough for Foreign Aid?

Anyway let them at it, but ask them to consolidate, and the answer would be Nope, too many CEOs and staff from the myriad third world charities need their egos stroked.

A myriad is 10,000, or without being literal about it, people could read that to mean there are thousands. They are not even near being the largest sector in the charity organisations.

"The top five sectors in which Ireland’s 11,426* registered charities operated were: the advancement of education (5,982); community welfare (2,150); integration into society of those who are disadvantaged (1,570); relief of poverty or economic hardship (1,331) and community development (1,294)."

Sorry about that my mistake.

They are still crazy numbers for such a small country, thanks for posting them.

i think they money they can spend on ads is limited ,they all seem to use the same male voice actor and the same script

emergency

theres a disaster /famine in country x can you help please donate at this website etc

goal cant afford to spend 300k on one ad