Various reasons i should think, though i know next to nothing of charities, other than those who work for them in the growing higher rungs are doing rather well thanks.

People able to sell their unwanted clobber to rag collectors for cash, the whole rag game oversubscribed and a general populace having reached saturation point with being made to feel guilty via the telly/newspaper/radio/motorway urinal propaganda bombardment...those are a few off the top of my head, personally i'm fed up to the back teeth with every man and his dog wanting whats left in my ever thinner wallet that the goverment haven't filched before i saw it.

Edited by gordonbennet on 15/04/2016 at 13:19

Its a shame that we can't charge them 5p for each plastic bag they shove through our letter boxes just like the shops do!

".... in the vain hope of getting me to sign up to monthly direct debits."

Some charities just don't get the message that this is a thoroughly unpleasant way to go about fundraising. Lots of people are prepared to give cash, but don't want to be cajoled into signing up for something that in an always uncertain economic climate they may not be able to afford later on.

I'm proud to do some work for the RNLI (I'm treasurer for a big annual fair in north Dorset). We have house-to-house collections and a flag day, but we simply ask for cash, and we get it as we're apolitical and uncontroversial.

Good comments but how about this--my wife has dutifully filled these sacks on occasion and put them outside for collection.

Next thing she knows is she is called by a parish councillor ( 15 miles away) and accused of dumping!

The collectors had either got bored and fly tipped the lot--or filleted what they wanted from their sacks before chucking over the hedge. She was furious to be accused of fly tipping --but luckily the parish councillor was across it and guessed that bag collectors were to blame!

No more charity sacks in this household any more and we tell everybody to be aware and beware!