Take a walk past any of London’s major train stations this month, and chances are you’ll see the same thing: an army of brightly bibbed volunteers waiting to accost you. Charity “muggers” — or chuggers as they’re better known — mean business.
The phenomenon seems to be everywhere in the capital. Sometimes, it feels like you can’t get a hundred metres without somebody stepping into your path and imploring you to cough up some money in the name of an often-obscure charity.
