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Age UK makes more than £1m to promote firms to elderly

Age UK, the charity which gives advice, support and raises money for the elderly, is receiving money from a number of companies by agreeing to promote their hearing aids, beds and scooters

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Quingo has been accused of bombarding pensioners with calls and attempting to send sales reps to make pensioners buy expensive scooters costing up to £6,000.  Photo: ALAMY

Age UK is making more than £1million from a number of partnerships with companies that manufacture items such as hearing aids, beds and mobility scooters for the elderly.

Companies listed on the Age UK website pledge to pay the charity a proportion of profits or fixed amounts for “promotion and sale” of their products.

These include:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10643306/Age-UK-makes-more-than-1m-to-promote-firms-to-elderly.html

and we struggle to get funding for Chill

We get lots of calls form mobility firms,  I just tell them that we are on TPS & don't receive un solicited firms, they always say they will remove us from their list but I have no idea whether they do, I suppose I should keep a log of the names & then I can complain if they ring again

That's a lot of money they make

Ann x

Deaf and blind 102-year-old 'pressurised' to buy scooter by Age UK mobility firm

A 102-year-old man claims he was "talked into" buying a mobility scooter that he could barely use because of his hearing problems and issues with his sight that made it almost impossible to read the contract for the £4,000 model

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10643127/Deaf-and-blind-102-year-old-pressurised-to-buy-scooter-by-Age-UK-mobility-firm.html

this gets worse