Hmm. There's a lot of concerns I see with this charity event, as to who's actually pocketing the money. On the front it looks like a good thing, it's to improve the buildings to add a few important things, and also "theatres" for whatever reason and how many of these theaters they need to add for instance isn't specified or why. You also hear in the video about how many people(more than usual they say) worked on this project so far, therefore it makes me question, how high the cost will be and who's getting paid how much of this charity money for what, like is the director of opinions taking $5 mil home because he said it's a good idea. It also seems like rather than renovations, it will be a complete tear down and rebuilt based on the video which shows a larger, different structure. I could be wrong on this(correct me), they might just renovate and add an extension.

There's this video I saw once about the gov building a toilet in a park which went from around $200 000 to $2 mil because of all the "processes" and years it took for everyone who wont build or do any actual shit to give their opinion and whatever else is truly unnecessary. Then they privatized construction, with union and it got more expensive, then idk what office time frame signature expired and they paid for it regardless, had to do it again. Just a bunch of crooks, but this is a standard.
I found it! $2 Million Bathroom

Also keep in mind:
"We are a private patient unit within GOSH and we provide care for paying patients both from the UK and overseas. We are not an NHS service and our care is not free. As a UK resident, your child would be a private patient and you would either need to be able to pay for the care or be covered by medical insurance." <---source . Link doesn't work perfectly, it's on that page, you need to expand the "I am a UK resident, can my child come to GOSH?" faq.

I'll stay away from funding private hospitals with my money, since I feel as long as we promote privatizing everything, some corpo asses are going to get their nice multi million salaries at the end of the year for which they charge mega high prices, and they go out of their way to litigate against public hospitals, and the gov will see no need to make public hospitals with affordable care since there's private ones.

So yeah maybe some good deals, but I don't support the charity, because I don't want to support building buildings for the already rich for them to exploit the poor, but I'd support if the money went to pay for some sort of initiative to make this needed care taxpayer funded, as it should be and de-privatizing the healthcare industry.

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Most health service in the UK is private these days

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Let's have a citation for that.

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Brexit
was a plan to ruin government will things got privatized and sold off for cheaper....fucking worked...
same thing happening in america right now but much worse...

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Britons felt they didn't get enough out of EU for their input. Besides that it's still a bitter pill to swallow that they're a regional power now after deciding over the affairs of 25% of the world for a century.

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Its crazy how they can hijack prices of constructions when everyone want to increase their profit. Reminded me when I recently read plan upcoming plans of my city shaping. Last year our city leaders spent milions czk to build themselves a parking house. Now they want to build an acess point to river infront of our city officers building, so people can go sit there or take bath. What you can't see on that "future" picture is on other side of river is park where everyday sleeps dozens of homeless people.
Then I saw a financies asigned to project. It was crazy. It was basicaly triple of price of my projects to build and I am designing waste water treatments plans, where you have also expensive technologies and underground watersystems to replace on top of building.

Edit: also the river is in state when none normal people would want to put feet in the water while sitting. It is really dirty, fish you would't see there for over 20 years anymore.

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Wait, so this is a "charity event" to fund a private hospital? One that charges its patients, right? So basically a private, for profit, company is trying to crowdfund its buildings renovations/expansions.
Wow this sounds sketchy. Like, maybe it isn't and it just sounds shady, but it sure doesn't inspire me much trust.

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Most charities have to make a profit - they have bills the same as you or me and a lot of the people involved even in charity shops or updating websites are paid to some extent - people volunteering for free is not as common as it used to be

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Yeah but I usually don't consider covering expenses and paying workers as profit, or at least I've never seen it framed as profit. I don't know how it works in other countries but here there's a pretty hard legal divide between for-profit companies and non-profit organizations, mostly because it's not rare for shady businessmen to file orgs as foundations for the sake of tax breaks. My mom is a lawyer and I grew up hearing about all sorts of legal exploits to dodge the fisco.

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"Real" charities are a nonprofit, they can't make "profit" to begin with. What you're speaking is called an overhead, the necessary extra costs to keep the ball rolling. The bills and stuff.

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But isn't it still taking money out of the donation away from the charity - what about ads on the TV how much do they really bring in (I mean who really even watches ads anyway)

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And you look like an angry little boy. You are under there almost every post with your silly comments. Why is all that hate?

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Funny you. Only me using this site. See at least i am honest and respectful unlike you. Have a nice day SIR!

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To people like you :)

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But you still didn't. Are you afraid of something? Can't get too close to people because of a trauma? Or is the loniless makes you that angry? Are you that alone? 😔

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Now you are just lieing. If there is only this one okay but you are puking hate to almost everyone. I was about to send a friend request to normally chat but i saw you blocked me and blacklisted to avoid me. Now i am sure you don't only have anger issues, you are unhappy. Just because of that you can't stand when you see someone is having more fun than you. I wasn't here to argue with you in the first place. But it was fun :D Don't be that sad. Life is as short as a blink of an eye.

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Also it says don't look here. So, you deserved it 🤣

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Privatized necessities is a real problem.

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Can someone summarize the GOSH Charity annual reports so i can "decide" who to yell at?

Hopefully they were yelled at for door-to-door fundraisers using pressure-selling techniques (use 12.ft.io to bypass paywall)

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The wikipedia has other nice things as well, like sharing user data with other charities, selling live tissue of patients to pharmaneutical companies without knowledge of patients, selling data to a wealth screening company, selling patient data to an AI company in exchange of shares (then losing 2 million pounds when it went under), and claims of institutional racism. Unsure how exactly the charity is linked to the (otherwise) NHS funded hospital, but this is NOT a good look :/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital , controversies part.

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Oh no no no no!!! That is a lot of controversies

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i'm sorry that a charity event that is to help with cancer treatment has angered so many people

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Don't feel bad, it's not your fault. It's just that sadly so many times one hears in the news about these things that superficially seem positive but under closer inspection are a bit of a questionable clusterfuck that it's unavoidable to become somewhat jaded and distrustful.
You're not the one to blame but as the saying goes it's pretty common to shoot the messenger.

Also all the discussion here amounts to little more than suspicions so far, so it's still unclear what, if anything, is truly going on.

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Humankind failed since it's beginning

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