She was raising money for The Samaritans and collecting donations, like many others, via a Just Giving page.
Since her tragic death, donations to her chosen cause, via the page have kept on going and, in fact, have increased dramatically with monies coming from all around the world. Currently the total stands at about £200,000.
The Samaritans would, I'm sure, love to get that £200,000 to put towards the various good works they do .... but they won't get all of it.
Just Giving, unlike other similar charity collection websites such as Virgin Money Giving, will take a cut of all the donations made to go into their own coffers.
Yes, every time you donate to a charity via Just Giving they take a percentage from your donation.
This may be legal, it may be in the small print that everyone signs up to, but it feels like piracy on charity donations.
This seems bad enough as a matter of course, but to pilfer the donations made to Claire Squires, a woman who died whilst trying to help others, seems obscene.
Will Just Giving make an exception and waive their cut from the charity donations? Sadly I doubt it.
In the meantime, if you want to make a donation to Claire Squires charity appeal and want all the money to go to The Samaritans, I'd suggest bypassing Just Giving and donate directly to The Samaritans.
