Giving Week is here: donate funds to MNer-nominated organisations and MNHQ will match them!

A bump is always useful - I'm hoping that people who are able to can see their way to dropping a few more ££ to Women's Aid in light of their importance to all of us.

Thanks cozie
Don't know if the thread needs bumping as it's top of DOTD anyway - but here's another bump for the Saturday night party just in case!

Excellent idea, Juggling.

One day to go, so an early bump for Saturday night

If you're not going out tonight - remember those days ?! - then how about donate what you might have spent if you had done to one of these great causes ...

And MNHQ will double it!

Yes - and I think many people are not aware of how difficult the funding position is for them.

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Every time I see Women's Aid recommended to a woman in trouble on MN I want to make a donation.

Very pleased they are being supported - it feels as if they are out there doing what we sit and advocate for. I would like to volunteer for WA once my work / family workload diminishes.

I think that people are saying Thank You to you all, Knotty - as with the other charities/projects. Richly deserved.

Yaayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

The most ENORMOUS thank you for donations and shares, we are so bloody chuffed to have met and exceeded the target already! And to know that MNHQ will double it well, unusually for us, we are almost lost for words! Woooooooohooooooooooooo!

To say we are thrilled is an understatement, we are also incredibly humbled and touched that folk would do this for all of us. Can't quite take it in! This will have such an impact upon what the Woolly Hug crew together can achieve for children and families both here in the UK, and much further afield and for that we are SO grateful.

Thank you doesn't seem enough, but THANK YOU!!!!!

I'm delighted that the PDA society have met their target. DS1 doesn't have an official diagnosis of it (he has ASD and ADHD), but learning about it has made a huge difference to our quality of life. Dealing with children with PDA really does involve going against a lot of ingrained (by society) instincts and it's fabulous that so many families will be now able to be supported with this.

I've received the MNHQ email now.

I am also thrilled about PDA but am also off to look at the other organisations. I am loving that you have chosen not well known groups who do so much good :)

Really pleased the PDA Society has been blessed with this opportunity!
Thank you so much. I found out about PDA through mumsnet ... It was a classic lightbulb moment ... And that kind insight about unusual and challenging behaviour and PDA which was shared by another poster lead me to the PDA society... The videos and the advice which had been extremely helpful. It's changed all our lives, for the better. Without knowing what your child has - you are in the dark, feeing guilty and useless... (We now have an official diagnosis confirmed by a few doctors).

So hopefully wider knowledge of the PDA society will help other parents and adults with the condition.

And now mumsnet is contributing to the cause... Mumsnet to the rescue! Seriously I think the parents conference will be fantastic, brilliant that there will be some funding for help which is desperately needed. I am selfishly hoping we manage to get on the course at some point....! :D

Ok enough rambling - thank you from a grateful mumsnet family. I'm encouraging my family and friends to donate. Thank you x

Mumsnet - can you put a 'Donate' button on the website to make it easier to donate, please? It's quite tricky to find the right link when you're on a dinky phone! Thanks

PDA has made its target. Well done folks.

Thanks MNHQ for doing this, it's ace.
I have only managed to donate little amounts and so great to know you will match it.

For many years when I was earning I made standing order donations to my 4 fave charities on which they could reclaim the tax under Gift Aid. (They were 'human' charities: Amnesty, Samaritans, BHF and Action Aid).
No though I am unable to work due to Sjogren's Syndrome and we struggle to pay the mortgage I cannot afford to donate. BUT, and this is what I wanted to share with others who might be in straightened circumstances, I sign e-petitions and write letters for Amnesty prisoner release campaigns, I volunteer on a charity helpline (for which I had training in my previous career) and try to do my bit in practical rather than purely financial ways. It is actually more satisfying to get involved and have contact with people - has anyone else any ideas for how to help? NB I do NOT mean in ways which are burdensome to charities!

That's how yimby works usually - if target isn't raised nobody gets charged anything and money is only taken at the end of the time given. However, KateMNHQ up there^ seemed to be saying that for this they were working with yimby to ensure that whatever is pledged is collected and matched by MNHQ, even if below the target amount. (and Yay to WoollyHugs for reaching £1000!)

Yes, I think that with these things if the target isn't reached then donations might not be collected (could be why the word "pledges" is sometimes used ?)

• glad it's not just me Cate

< off to look at beautiful colours in WoolleyHugs blankets >

So if, say, Free Cakes for Kids didn't reach their target with donations from MNetters, Yimby would say "sorry MNHQ you can't match the donations"? I have got that wrong, haven't I?

And what would Yimby do with the donations already received (if didn't reach target) - give them back to donors?

I can be a bit slow sometimes

Just out on interest, how is Yimby different to Just Giving? I notice Yimby have kick started the fund raising for their 3 MN organisations with a kind donation of £50.

I just looked at the Woolly Hugs page and do you know? It cheered me up just to see those wonderful piles of colours.

I don't think so Germy. Why would you think that?

But if they don't get the target they get nothing, is that right?