ORGANISED CHARITY

Southland Times, Issue 20207, 18 June 1927, Page 2

ORGANISED CHARITY

THE COMMUNITY CHEST. IN SYDNEY. Sydney, May 26. 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 business men of the embarrassment of giving an unfavourable answer to appeals, owing to the continuous calls 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 to enable them to give a lump sum 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 organised system of giving, they are looked upon as fair game, and are scowled at if they refuse to respond to this or that appeal.