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Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

Paull

Does anyone here get actually get any help from NAS ?

My experience is you ask for help and they send you a bucketload of PDF'S of other organisations. Am I wrong to have expected more ?

The chief executive gets paid 140 grand a year, is it right that someone can live in luxury on that kind of salary from charitable donations ? Not even counting the other 20 people on stupid salaries comes to over 2 million quid ...no doubt plus expenses.

I thought charities existed to help others but obviously they are more interested in helping themselves.

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  • Yes, its true Jon, along with another 25 executives theres over 2.1 million per year just going to 26 people - all money given to this organisation to supposedly help people with autism, if may not be illegal but without question it's morally unacceptable - this is a charity not a bank - much of it gets spent on conferences, meetings, awards, lectures etc (all no doubt incurring big expenses for posh hotels and booze) while very few people considering the enormous expediture actually get direct help.

    In my opinion as someone with ASD I don't care about conferences and awards and meetings, they should be held in a church hall around a table to save money, not in posh hotels, and I am sure the majority of people with an ASD would prefer the money benefits them directly through direct help, after all the money is donated or given for that very purpose - I wonder how much of the budget went on hotels ? I wonder so many things. But I was sent to NAS by the NHS and was told this is where I could get help - I asked for help and all I got was a load of PDF files, no doubt I will be in their annual report as someone who has been helped just to bulk up the numbers.

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  • Yes, its true Jon, along with another 25 executives theres over 2.1 million per year just going to 26 people - all money given to this organisation to supposedly help people with autism, if may not be illegal but without question it's morally unacceptable - this is a charity not a bank - much of it gets spent on conferences, meetings, awards, lectures etc (all no doubt incurring big expenses for posh hotels and booze) while very few people considering the enormous expediture actually get direct help.

    In my opinion as someone with ASD I don't care about conferences and awards and meetings, they should be held in a church hall around a table to save money, not in posh hotels, and I am sure the majority of people with an ASD would prefer the money benefits them directly through direct help, after all the money is donated or given for that very purpose - I wonder how much of the budget went on hotels ? I wonder so many things. But I was sent to NAS by the NHS and was told this is where I could get help - I asked for help and all I got was a load of PDF files, no doubt I will be in their annual report as someone who has been helped just to bulk up the numbers.

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