Fintan Ramblings

I co run a mailing list with Tony Barlow and someone posted that the CO OP supermarket have named RNID charity of the year.

I checked out my local CO OP and happy to see that they don’t display any thing , although they only have at the till a collection box for the RNIB.
I was in Chester last weekend after visiting a co op there where I lived for years did not display it there  either,to which they must have a lot of deaf customers and not wanting to make us uncomfortable.
( there used to be a newsagent run by a Deaf BSL user 4 doors away which I will blog about later)

So did they not want to annoy their dear customers,I wouldn’t want to be reminded that I am deaf and they are supporting/helping me or or feel sorry for us when all we want to do is get on with our shopping  instead of them prancing about in their pyjamas or what ever fundraising  ideas they have.

But knowing the RNID and how these so called charity operate they will put up posters at a more profitable places or where gullible people shop and donate.
Has anybody at the co op ask deaf people what they think of the RNID?

For all I can see  is a silly pr stunt to increase their own profits as well as RNID,s.
Lets take a look at the fund raising pack that’s been banded about .. you can down Fund Raiding Pack

Deaf and hard of hearing people are four times more likely to be unemployed than hearing people.
yes and how many work for the RNID? very little and none at senior levels, I would be interested to know how many work for the co op.

£50 Provides a basic toolkit for a Hear to Help volunteer to show new hearing aid users how to maintain and clean their hearing aid.
This is shown at the NHS hospitals  or in my case  at doctors surgery as I live rural  for free
also private hearing aids dispensers do this too and they want you to make the most of your hearing aids.

£100 To visit someone in their home and talk to them about making the most of their hearing aid and how to maintain it for themselves.
again this is shown free via NHS ,private dispeners

£250 To visit five people in their homes for a quick hearing aid check and a chat.
again at the NHS or local doctors surgery this will be shown,but with these volunteers visiting houses they would be sucking their family member on fundraising events selling raffle tickets to raise more money.

£500 To carry out thirty hearing aid maintenance tasks, such as battery changes, at community centre.

again this is done for free at hospital or doctors surgery and your local deaf club

and it goes on…

So it it really makes you think where the money really goes when the  CEO gets 10k a year running the RNID….
so when your next into the co op why not buy a nice choclate bar for your self  cos its more satifying than putting money  in the charity box.