My wife and I saw the wonderful 'field' of ceramic poppies around the Tower of London on TV and as the feature said that as you could buy one/several, we enquired as we wanted to buy 2 for ourselves.
They are on sale for £25 + p&p so we thought, 'ok, £50 to the British Legion, that's great'.
Not so. According to the various websites, including the official one, approx 10% from each purchase plus all net profits will go to 6 (SIX) charities!!
It works out that approx £8.00 from each sale will go to British Legion/charities - Paul Cummins, the designer and 'et al' will actually earn MILLIONS from this sale!!!
As Queenie/ Harry/ William were happy to pose amongst them, I wonder if they have been told how much will actually benefit the British Legion and everyone they support?
I think it's absolutely scandelous for third parties to make millions selling these - for god's sake, surely all of the proceeds should have gone to the good causes - without the soldiers who gave their lives, these 'gold-diggers' wouldn't have even been here!
We didn't order two poppies, we just made sure that the appropriate charity got what they deserve and my wife, who is in England for another week, will bring back our personal poppies - it's a real shame as the ceramic ones would have looked lovely in a fitting vase with us knowing that the proceeds had gone where they should have.
Anyone else bought one......?