Every charity must get donations to survive. There isn't anything wrong with wooing old ladies as long as you don't con them. But I don't see the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills to sue critics on the list of what the branch will spend the old dear's money on.

Of course, the legal bills are not "branch bills", but then the bequests are not going to the branches as this "Tea and Sympathy" P.R. says.

Here is the truth straight from one of many disaffected SPCA CACs ...

All the money goes to the Admin centre, branches do not have their own "accounts" and there is no say by the branch or the community council where the money is spent. The event is not even listed as a branch fundraising event, but rather as its own line item in the budget . . . something I sent many e-mails over the year before last as this was our branch's biggest fundraising event in previous years, and to take it out of that category made it look like we were not "pulling our weight" in raising funds locally. From a fun event that I enjoyed organizing and did not cost anything for the branch to put on (except for a couple of ads) it's gone to an event dictated by the Admin Centre with much much more money going on expenses.

I think the wording that all funds raised at the walks stays in the communities is a clever play on words, just like "all designated legacies stay at the branch/community".