Irish charity controversy reduces income by 50 percent
Howard Lake | 26 June 2014 | News
The Irish charity at the centre of the salary ‘top up’ controversy last year has reported a drop over 50 percent in fundraising income.
Dublin based Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) saw its public collections in 2013 fall from over €400,000 to €190,000. The income is raised from its long running Christmas Santa Bear appeal as well as flag days.
The information is contained in an interim administrator’s report quoted in the Irish Times.
“For obvious reasons the CRC has experienced a sharp reduction in the funds being raised from its fundraising activities and, in 2014, staff previously assigned to fundraising were redeployed to other roles within the CRC,” the administrator reports.
After costs and overheads were taken into account, the decline in fundraising in 2013 resulted in a net loss of €13,406 from such activities that year. The CRC had made €516,193 in such fundraising income in 2011 and €418,000 in 2010.
On the other hand, major donations to CRC remained level at around €100,000. The administrator also commented in the report that fundraising income should be applied to charity services, a reference to CRC’s previous practice of using fundraising income to top up salaries of senior executives.
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