Daily Telegraph

Here are three scenes from charity life. Scene One (an office building in Liverpool): An elderly man, dressed neatly but rather shabbily, walks into the building and tells the girl at the desk he wants to make a donation to a little charity he read about in the paper. He hands over a brown envelope, refuses to give a name or fill in a Gift Aid form and walks out again. When they open the envelope it contains £1,000 in used notes. Scene Two (the board room of one of Britain’s best-known charities): The chief executive and his young marketing…