Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's CharityReviews of gosh.org

I am over female and in my 70'son my own and have twice been canvassed in the dark by young people working for this charity. It is an inappropriate time to call in a rural area. They then did the same to an elderly neighbour who was foolish enough to let them in until his daughter stepped in. We both support various charities but don't want these uninvited people on our doorsteps. I shall be reporting this to the local police. Apparently they have to have one's bank details ( a one off donation not acceptable) or they don't get paid. Disgraceful.

Really ? In this day and age , is it sensible to send young girls out in the streets after dark to try to get people to sign up to donate ?? No it is not . Also from the other side , it makes vulnerable residents open their doors to complete strangers . I seriously question the thought process behind this campaign.

We’ve been harassed by GOSH representatives on numerous occasions now. They knocked our door THREE times in a single day. Once at midday when no-one was home, the second just 10 minutes after I arrived home from work (obviously stalking me), and the third at 8:30pm!! I’ve previously expressed my disinterest on donating to the charity, yet they continue to return to our property. If a property could be put on a sort of TPS these guys would be in some serious trouble. After speaking to neighbours, they had nothing good to say either (we have a community Facebook Group), some even said that the representatives were extremely rude and overly personal - one lady even had to leave her house because she didn’t feel safe! Times are hard enough and people certainly aren’t going to donate money to a charity that is being represented by such rude individuals. We’ve offered to give them some spare change as a donation but they insist on bank details. You can jog on if you think I’m going to be giving my bank details to some stranger at my doorstep. I’ll happily donate to charity but it will be on my own terms - not with harassment and peer pressure at my door. I wrote this review after GOSH decided to ignore my email of complaint. We’ve now opted to purchase a ‘no cold callers’ plaque to prevent them from visiting in future. If they choose not to comply and continue to harass us, I will be taking this further; perhaps even deciding as a community to set up a ‘no cold calling zone’ with the Local Authority if need be.

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I found it highly intrusive to have someone knocking on my door asking for money for this charity. I understand that all charities need money but door to door harassment makes me never want to donate. There are a lot of people struggling to pay bills at the moment so having someone trying to guilt trip you on your doorstep is totally unacceptable and moreover getting paid for it meaning some of the donation doesn’t even get to where you want it. Clearly harassment works better than advertising though otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it.

GOSH knocked on my door three times in one day, including after dark. I see this as harassment. Once is enough.