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This is a normal post According to Wikipedia it is actually
"£153 million on constructing and running five regional MOD Personnel Recovery Centres"

However, it is interesting to see that they do not campaign for the government to support wounded soldiers properly (and thus do themselves out of existence). The MOD should pay for those centres, not the public.

Seems like they are doing more to create a problem (ie that the government leave soldiers to rely on charity) than fix it.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 13:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post You could apply that to any charity
Why give money to the NSPCC when it's the job of the police and state to protect children etc?
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 14:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think this is different
because soldiers are the government's employees.

I imagine that part of the NSPCC's work is campaigning for legal change too. It just seems weird that Help the Heroes don't seem (as far as I know) to do that.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 14:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^pretty much this
Blair shut the dedicated military hospitals a few years after the invasion of Iraq, what a guy.
 (I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 18:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post I tend to agree.
Why does my local Hospice need a million pounds a year in donations just to survive? THAT is the sort of thing I happily pay tax for.
However, I do understand the RNLI and their attitude; they don't want to be government funded because it would mean government control. They would end up being 'cost effective' rather than out there saving lives.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 14:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Might as well rant while I'm here on the subject.
I run a charity (yes, I'm a little Saint) and you would not believe the money wasted. We rely on donations and a Council grant. The Council have reduced our grant and now have decided we should pay rates on our buildings (which are owned by the Council and rented to us on a peppercorn basis). So they give us a grant then ask for £2k of it back right away. This involves accountants, paperwork, meetings, all of which I'm sure add up to over the £2k in the first place on both sides.

/rant over.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 14:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Our journal binding budget has been reduced to practically nothing
other than our own publications and the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. A tradition of binding and thus protection for academic publications going back to 1826, and we're now storing publications loose in boxes.

Not good
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 15:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Why give money to the NSPCC
when I have a nice soundproof cellar they could put them in
 (I helped save b3ta! A Rory Borealis here under duress, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 14:43, , Reply)