Tag Archives: Chugging
Chugging chuggers
Imagine I stopped you on the street, perhaps applying a bit of gentle pressure, persuaded you to give me your bank details, then used them to take over £500 from your account without really telling you what it was going towards; you would have good reason to think you have been mugged. Yet last night’s [...]
Chugging fools
I suppose I should be honoured to be deemed noteworthy enough to appear in an April’s Fool ‘joke’, even if it is only Third Sector. In an article bylined by ‘May Dupp’ they reveal that a street fundraising ban unites main parties and I’m quoted as saying what good news a ban would be. Not [...]
The Guardian and chugging
The Guardian (or more specifically Paul MacInnes and Hildegunn Soldal) did a short video piece about chugging last year: you will note the early stages of my festive beard, and me looking disturbingly jowly. It finally appeared yesterday (they don’t allow embedding, so the above is on my YouTube account – but you can see [...]
Chugging, comments and blogging
It’s occurred to me that I never returned to the comments I removed from the blog during the chugging episode, despite promising that I would either restore them or explain why I removed them. In fact, I made the decision fairly soon after I removed them that they would not be returning. This was after [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 28 August
Being a new man Actually a fairly quiet week this week. Partly because it’s still summer, and consequently everything is just a bit quieter, and partly because I started my new man duties this week – which effectively limited me to half-days consisting of an hour’s work during the morning nap and a few hours [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 21 August
I felt these need a bit of perking up, so I’d thought I’d start a… Photo of the week! The idea was nice, I fairly often take photos – most often with my phone, but I’ll often find myself wondering around with various cameras. Sadly, when I looked through this week’s photos there wasn’t really [...]
The chuggers strike back
It is silly season, but even so I’m surprised at how the chugging issue has taken off. It’s got a fair chunk of coverage via the media and generated a rather pleasing set of supportive emails and messages for me. What is absolutely bizarre, however, has been the response of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Authority [...]
Support for Wandsworth on chuggers
There’s been a good response to my, and others, various mutterings about chuggers. One of the most exciting is that as a result of yesterday’s council press release Sadiq Khan’s office have been making enquiries about the problem (and as far as I know all have confirmed that a problem exists). If the local MP [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 14 August
My weekly look back on a few bits and pieces I want to highlight or didn’t post about first time around.
Why I don’t like chuggers
I’ve thought long and hard how to say this, but I’ve decided it’s best to be open about it. I don’t like chuggers (charity muggers) or, to give them their proper title, face-to-face fundraisers. I hinted at this nearly two weeks ago when I complained about their activities on St John’s Road. At the time [...]
