Welcome to Waynieoaks, the personal website of Wayne Badcock. This site is full of mainly useless information, but some of it may be of interest to people of a certain disposition. This site is split into the following sections:
Stuff - This area has lots of articles and stuff to download on various topics:
Car stuff - Technical info about car repairs, particulary with cars I have worked on
Computing stuff - Technical how to files as well as useful applications and databases
Family stuff - Mainly resources for parents, like reward charts for kids
Medical stuff - Mainly PowerPoint presentations I have done for training
Other stuff - Stuff we just don't know where to stick.
About me - If you are really bored, you can read a little more about me
Waynieoaks - Read about the Waynieoaks saga and the albums that followed
Waynes lyrics - Read some lyrics of songs I have written (Warning: explicit content)
Demonic Yak Radio
Demonic Yak Media Group closed in 2001. It's main aim was to manage and support unsigned artists in the East of England, but also ran an alternative radio station called Demonic Yak Radio. This station was also shut down in 2002 due to funding issues. We are currently investigating the possibility of licensing in order to restart the radio station in the future...
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Latest blog entry
It is not updated very often, but here is the latest entry:
Are online donation site charges fair?
28/11/11
Nigel Cassidy, a business reporter for BBC News recently looked into charity giving websites, such as JustGiving to see if their charges really are fair to the charities which use them.
I suppose it really comes down to the charity and how much profit they hope to raise. Some charge sign up fees, some charge monthly fees - all charge a donation fee of some description. But they have to pay the bills too. We have a choice, even as fundraisers - either we help foot the costs of such services, or they are funded by advertisements, some of which charities may not want to be associated with or customers get annoyed with and therefore lose a possible donation.
Just Giving, for example charges £15+ VAT a month, plus a fee with each donation - much more than the other sites - but it is the most well known, trusted by the public to be secure and reliable and therefore used by some of the biggest charities in the UK, because the cost is offset by the amount raised through the site.
For smaller charities and projects though - it is possible for them to make a loss, not generating enough to cover the charges. Which is why with everything nowadays it is best to "shop around". You need to weigh up how much you will lose against the benefits of the service you are provided. What is the point of a low donation fee if your supporters do not trust the site, or cannot find their way around the site.
For more information including a table of available donation sites and their costs, read my full article here.
