Should i give beggars money

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News Opinion Magazine Events About. Get TFN updates. Sign in Sign up. This poll is about 5 years old. Revealed: how people will give in Should we give money to beggars? Yes 75 No Voting in this poll has now closed. Corporate homicide law needs changed says charity.

New support service for women fleeing domestic abuse. At the height of his drug addiction, Dean was injecting 10 times a day. Now he has been clean for a year, moved into his own flat, and wants to train to become a drug support worker.

Dean advocates not giving money to beggars. Dean was fined for aggressive begging several times under the Public Spaces Protection Order act in place in Bolton town centre. Every time Julie spotted me, she talked to me on a level and put a smile on my face. Bolton Council is part of the Bolton Homeless Alliance partnership which works together to help those who are on the street.

He was then helped by the team to secure a flat in Horwich and local charity Urban Outreach helped him to move and settle into his flat. So your donation could be tripled in effect. In addition to this, when you give money directly to beggars, you have no idea as to what they will spend that money on.

You have no idea whether they really are homeless. An organised charity eliminates all these doubts. They will spend the money on shelters and food, not alcohol and cigarettes. They will ensure that the money is distributed amongst the most needy. All this taken into account, giving to an organisation instead of one beggar is far more helpful. If you give money to a homeless person you are just encouraging their behavior. There are many services available to help the homeless get back on their feet.

They reject these services and choose to be homeless. Not to mention you have no idea what they could using the money you give them for drugs. The money you would give them should go to an organization that provides services to the mentally ill homeless.

The mentally ill homeless are really the only ones who have a reason to be out on the streets. All the other homeless are just beggars who refuse to work themselves. Save up your quarters you would give the guy you pass by everyday to work and then mail you accumulated funds as a check to a organizations that helps the disadvantaged! Most people who are homeless are homeless for a reason. Either their families have chucked them out or they have spent all their money on drugs or alcohol.

By giving these people money, all you are doing is giving them the means to continue their bad habit. Homeless people are in a vicious circle and all you do when you give them change is continue the circle. Many people, women especially, are on the streets because of sexual abuse.

So the vicious circle exists and can be increased. There is no proof that those who are lying on the streets are actually homeless. They could go home, into the warmth, with their loving family. By giving these people money without any proof, you are stopping the people who really need the money from receiving it.

Instead the money should go to a large charity whereby they help the people who truly need it by providing clean housing and food; the essentials. To beg is extremely demeaning, not to mention freezing!

People must be in extreme poverty in order to resort to such measures. Yes, there are concerns about whether they are really poor, but if a person resorts to such methods to gain a bit of money each day, surely they are need in help, just as much, if not more than those who have no choice but to be on the streets? Easy money is an extreme attraction for the lazy; sitting around all day collecting spare money off of passers by.

With such an easy living to be made there where is the motivation for such a person to get themselves off of the street and into a secure job. By giving money to these sorts of people, far from helping them you are encouraging them to be lazy. Not only are you encouraging those who are homeless to stay on the streets, but you are encouraging others to do the same.

People who think they have no where to go will think that there is a place on the streets for them.