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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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  • Strangely, although labour made NAS the fourth? largest charity in 2007, by its funding, NAS is specifically precluded by its charitable purpose from any research or investigation into the causes of autism. This is suspicious in itself, but together with the goverments failure to fund any research into the effects of vaccines, and their increased use is worrying.

    If as you say, and it is, autism is big buisness, then it should not be funded by tax payers, as a charity. NAS etc pay no tax,as they are supposed to be motivated by philanthrophy, and not make a profit, ie be true volunteers as far as possible. But we are living in a post charity age, where philanthrophy and donations are merely used to make as much profit as possible for the cause hijacker. This leaves the individual autistic family to use its own resources through law and web to gain their own help. It also means that donations are largely received on false pretences. The charity commission and government must address this fundamental issue of society's lack of charity, and the subversion of its role in today's society. Meanwhile it worsens the plight of the autistic and wastes hard earned, well meant charitable donations. 

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  • Strangely, although labour made NAS the fourth? largest charity in 2007, by its funding, NAS is specifically precluded by its charitable purpose from any research or investigation into the causes of autism. This is suspicious in itself, but together with the goverments failure to fund any research into the effects of vaccines, and their increased use is worrying.

    If as you say, and it is, autism is big buisness, then it should not be funded by tax payers, as a charity. NAS etc pay no tax,as they are supposed to be motivated by philanthrophy, and not make a profit, ie be true volunteers as far as possible. But we are living in a post charity age, where philanthrophy and donations are merely used to make as much profit as possible for the cause hijacker. This leaves the individual autistic family to use its own resources through law and web to gain their own help. It also means that donations are largely received on false pretences. The charity commission and government must address this fundamental issue of society's lack of charity, and the subversion of its role in today's society. Meanwhile it worsens the plight of the autistic and wastes hard earned, well meant charitable donations. 

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