Are celebrities a help or hindrance to charities?

UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie dropped in on Syrian refugees in Turkey last week. But do celebrities trivialise – even jeopardise – good causes?Peter Stanford is a journalist, and on the board of several charitiesNever say never but, in my experience, the fabled benefits of celebrity support have rarely lived up to the hype, because to achieve that dividend requires the sort of additional organisational muscle that is beyond the stretched resources of most small- and medium-sized cha...

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