Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

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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  • If I set up a charity to feed the homeless and was given £5000 in donations then shouldn't most of that money go to buy food and pay for people to cook and deliver that food so that those the money is aimed at and raised for benefit directly from those donations ?

    In the case of NAS it's as if they say 'right we've got £5000 lets have some meetings and conferences so we can talk about how we are going to feed the homeless, of course we need nice offices and we all need to get paid very handsomely for our services as well.'

    You don't need to be a mathematical genius to work out that with this kind of structure then the money left in the pot to pay for the actual objectives of the charity diminishes.

    Of course infrastructure is vital but it has to be accountable. Those at the top of NAS have been shown to have no morals or ethics by creaming off huge salaries so how can we have any trust in what they are doing on the whole ?

    Corruption starts at the top, if those at the top are corrupt then you cannot have any trust in what that organisation is doing because they are the ones running that organisation.

    If you look closely you will see whats' really happening. The chief executives salary of £140,00 has risen by £40,000 in 2 years, thats 40% - for this to happen means other executives have to vote, this raises further questions on morals because this is by no means morally acceptable.

    To put it simply - Those at the top of NAS are pigs in a trough and you can't tell a pig in a trough to only eat a certain amount - it's no different to what has happened with the banks.

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  • If I set up a charity to feed the homeless and was given £5000 in donations then shouldn't most of that money go to buy food and pay for people to cook and deliver that food so that those the money is aimed at and raised for benefit directly from those donations ?

    In the case of NAS it's as if they say 'right we've got £5000 lets have some meetings and conferences so we can talk about how we are going to feed the homeless, of course we need nice offices and we all need to get paid very handsomely for our services as well.'

    You don't need to be a mathematical genius to work out that with this kind of structure then the money left in the pot to pay for the actual objectives of the charity diminishes.

    Of course infrastructure is vital but it has to be accountable. Those at the top of NAS have been shown to have no morals or ethics by creaming off huge salaries so how can we have any trust in what they are doing on the whole ?

    Corruption starts at the top, if those at the top are corrupt then you cannot have any trust in what that organisation is doing because they are the ones running that organisation.

    If you look closely you will see whats' really happening. The chief executives salary of £140,00 has risen by £40,000 in 2 years, thats 40% - for this to happen means other executives have to vote, this raises further questions on morals because this is by no means morally acceptable.

    To put it simply - Those at the top of NAS are pigs in a trough and you can't tell a pig in a trough to only eat a certain amount - it's no different to what has happened with the banks.

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