Topic: Sponsoring/Donating

[SamLouise]

I've got a direct debit set up for Great Ormond Street Hospital and I'm now thinking of changing it to something I saw on the web the other day.

The organisation is called Centrepoint (https://www.centrepointroom.org.uk/) and you donate a certain amount of money each month which they say pays for a room to help one person get off the streets.  I really like this idea and I'm definitely up for sponsoring a room or two but ... it's £12 a month.  Can't help but wonder how £12 can pay for a room for a month??!  I thought perhaps the charity may have bought/leased big buildings and the sponsorships will obviously pay the rent/mortgages?  I really want to set it up but I don't want to be one of those nellies that you read about who finds their money has been lining someone's pocket, LOL. 

How do I find out (I'm not very savvy in these things) and could I ring them up and ask questions?

Thanks :)

Hopefully Baccyman will arrive soon, hehehehe

[Flighty]

Yes by all means phone them! They should be quite happy to answer any questions that you want to ask.  This may be of help as well -

http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=292411&SubsidiaryNumber=0

[SamLouise]

Thanks Flighty :)

Well I gave them a call and they were very nice and explained it to me (reeling off my twenty questions, lol) and I asked how £12 a month could pay for a room and they said that multiple sponsors go toward individual rooms, so it could be my sponorship + x amount of others paying for a room for one person per month.  I've signed up to sponsor two rooms a month :)