Warning: We R Blighty outside M&S

[portioncontrol]

Hi all, if you see this “charity” We R Blighty, who collect for homeless veterans, do not give them money. I saw them outside M&S on Lordship Lane this week.

They are under investigation by Kent police, they do not donate the majority of your money, rather they pocket up to 60%. 

Article from iNews

[Sephiroth]

I mean... the name alone is a bit of a red flag

[Jasminetea]

Thanks for the warning. They have collected on London Bridge several times and I have to say I contributed because I think veterans can have a really tough time / I am so cross to have given away my hard earned cash this way - they seemed reputable and had leaflets with accommodation and meal costs etc 

Edited April 25 by Jasminetea
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[NewWave]

They also collect outside Marylebone mainline station

[Castleton]

I've seen them in Bromley too

[EDmummy101]

They also collect near Bond Street station near Oxford Circus.

Always same guys.

[Happyme5]

These charity collectors are often classed as chuggers.  It can be scandalous that the charity/admin may keep a huge percentage of your donations and a tiny percentage is  actually given to the charity.   I can not speak for individual collectors - but it common practice.  

[Cancerian]

  On 09/04/2025 at 11:13, Sephiroth said:

I mean... the name alone is a bit of a red flag

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Why is the name a big of a red flag? Blighty is a common name for the UK whatever people might think.

[Penguin68]

  On 04/05/2025 at 22:57, Cancerian said:

Why is the name a big of a red flag? Blighty is a common name for the UK whatever people might think.

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Not really since the first world war, and mainly in the sense then of 'getting a Blighty one' meaning a wound so serious you had to be sent home. I seriously doubt if one school child in 100 now would know what Blighty meant if the word was presented on its own with no context. 

[OutOfFocus]

  On 04/05/2025 at 22:57, Cancerian said:

Blighty is a common name for the UK whatever people might think.

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I've not heard it for years. Until this thread.

[Sephiroth]

Regardless of “Blighty” it’s the combination of “we” “R” and “Blighty”

we means there is a them 

cancerian may or may not recognise a dog whistle.  If he doesn’t, we are trying to point one out.  If he does then they are trying to gaslight us into pretending they are just a lovely fundraising group with no agenda 

[ianr]

What have people thought after looking at their Companies House submissions and their website?

[Sue]

  13 hours ago, ianr said:

What have people thought after looking at their Companies House submissions and their website?

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Do you have links, Ianr? 

[Sally Eva]

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14349080

Doesn't add much. No accounts. Possibly genuine. Possibly the hard-done-to veterans are themselves

[alice]

I think the thread title is a bit overdramatic there’s thousands of CICs in the UK.  Hopefully, I don’t sound naive when I say that sometimes this sort of set up is a way to reach hard to reach people without the bureaucracy of more formal organisations.

[portioncontrol]

As mentioned, they’re under investigation by kent police, defo more than just a dodgy CIC! 

[Dulwichway]

Forum members not knowing or disrespecting the term "good old Blighty' need to give their lack of  educational heads a wobble! 

[Penguin68]

"Blighty" is a British slang term for Britain or England, ultimately derived from the Urdu word "vilāyatī," meaning "foreign" or "European," according to Wiki, and was mainly used in the 19th Century and then WWI. It is thus a non English loan word. But I'm sure you knew that. 

[Sephiroth]

  4 hours ago, Dulwichway said:

Forum members not knowing or disrespecting the term "good old Blighty' need to give their lack of  educational heads a wobble! 

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Who is disrespecting the term “Blighty”

 

I see people questioning it’s common usage in 2025

i see people calling out organisations who use it to scam people 

but the term Blighty itself? Nope

“we r” in front of anything does add context mind you