Help charity...help yourself?

I heard something that shocked me today, and I thought people should know.

Charity Bullying UK (Follow on Twitter: @BullyingUK) was in a meeting today for 30 mins speaking to a company (we shall call them XYZ, this is made up I will not give the real name of the company as it may cause grief for Bullying UK which is not what I want to happen, they are a brilliant charity and deserve all the support they can get) in regards to helping promote them, and it wasn't until the last 5 minutes that XYZ "offered to help them" for £1,200!

£1,200 may not sound like a lot of money to some people, but when you bear in mind that Bullying UK raise roughly £50,000 annually and that money is all used to help 500,000 kids being bullied all across the UK, so £1,200 is a sizable chunk of money and means 12,000 kids would not be helped.

I know some people are going to read this and think "So what? They have money put aside to do this kinda stuff!" look at it this way, surely charities should put as much money into helping the causes they champion than splashing out ludicrous amounts of money on PR because a company wants thier little star to shine. I know a lot of charities spend stupid amounts of money on things...recently a charity spent a stupid amount for a logo change (when asked they said "Less than £100,000"! Make of that what you will...could have been £99,999.99!) which is a waste of money when you bear in mind Bullying UK did thiers for less than £500!!

Companies, when you say you want to help a charity, be clear about the fact you want to help yourself unless you are going to do something for a charity for free.