Another Fat cat charity boss !

JaneA there are lots of very greedy “fat cat” charity bosses ( just google them there are plenty) creaming hundreds of thousands of pounds from the top . Money generously given by you or I in the hope that it goes to good use. Some of it does of course but not until after the fat cat has had hit or her cream !

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-46470079

MP Frank Field has branded this as obscene and there is to be a public enquiry. Quite right too.

Gilly the title of your thread is ‘another Fat cat charity boss’.
That suggested to me you were having a go at bosses of charities.
Just because a company, or a school, has charitable status doesn’t mean it’s a charity in the usual sense of an organisation to which people make private donations. Motability isn’t like that. It’s a business.
That’s all I’m saying.

Thank you for comprehensive breakdown of Motability JaneA but I don’t recall ever saying it was a charity that anyone donated to in the traditional way, as they do other charities. I said that this is a Tax payer funded “charity” so we almost all contribute towards this man (and a few of his colleagues ) very large salaries, bonuses and luxury lifestyles.

I fail to see any connection whatsoever between someone choosing to spend their money on watching football (what a weird suggestion) and our taxes being handed over to this operation. Unless of course you are just deliberately nit picking my perfectly genuine post.

Just to be clear, Motabity isn’t a charity which people donate to.
It’s only ‘taxpayer-funded’ in the sense that people who get higher rate disability benefit are entitled to use it.
“The Scheme is open to anyone who receives the Higher Rate Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance, the Enhanced Mobility Component of Personal Independence Payment or the War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement. As of April 2018, the amount payable for HRDLA or the Enhanced Mobility rate of PIP and WPMS is £59.75 per week.[4] Those wishing to lease through Motability must have at least twelve months' award length remaining when they apply. The Care Component of DLA cannot be used to fund a vehicle through the scheme” from Wikipedia.
People in receipt of benefits are just as entitled to choose what to spend their money on as anyone else.
You could equally well argue that football players’ salaries are taxpayer-funded, because taxpayers choose to go and watch football matches.

I’m not in anyway justifying this CEO’s salary or lifestyle, but it seems to me that Motability was originally founded with good intentions, but it’s just a company. To call the CEO a ‘fat-cat charity boss’ and use his lifestyle to have a swipe at charities in general, isn’t fair to genuine charities.

Should a (so called) charity funded by the tax payer be allowed to hoard £billions ? This is clearly not a charity at all but a very wealthy business .

I dont give to big charities (with the exception of Cancer Research) any longer either Nfk as I think we are seeing this kind of thing more and more.

I found (and lost) a list giving the top charity bosses salaries. Its stopped me giving to big charities altogether. I now only give to small local ones.

Is questionable whether this is a charity in the true sense, even though one part of the business is registered as such. It’s about time less questionable enterprises were given charity status. Another I’d remove from that category are private schools.