CHARITY ORGANISATION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 9

CHARITY ORGANISATION

.. . * COMMUNITY CHEST IDEA (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 26th May. The Community Charity Chest which has been taken up enthusiastically by the leading merchants of Sydney, and which is available to others in the community as well, aims primarily at relieving busi- • ncsa men of the embarrassment 01 turning down appeals, owing to the continuous calk upon them by hospitals and other charities. For hospitals and charities, the council of the Chamber of Commerce, as the promoters of the scheme, has already received £325 from three firms alone for the year 1927. This money will go into the Community Chest, it being open to the donors to name the specific hospitals or charities which they wish to benefit. The aims, broadly, of the Community Chest are to free business ■ men from numerous and. sometimes harassing applications and enable them to give a lump suni for appeals generally, through this new channel; to bring about organised giving in the community, as distinct from the present methods, and to benefit institutions without the heavy deductions for expenses to, which, in many cases, they are now unavoidably subjected. Big business men welcome the new scheme, for, under the present unorganised system of riving, they are looked upon as fair game, and are scowled at if they turn down this or that appeal.