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

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JustineMumsnet · 23/05/2014 16:00

Hello all

As you may remember, a wee while back we asked you to nominate your favourite charities and related organisations for the inaugural Mumsnet Giving Week. Well - the nominations are in, the shortlist has been drawn up and Mumsnet Giving week starts here!

First, a thank you: you suggested an amazing selection of worthy organisations, and choosing just five was, as you can imagine, an astonishingly difficult task. In the end, though, we settled on the following:

Women's Aid
Free Cakes for Kids
Woolly Hugs
Haven House
PDA Society

As of now, the Yimby and Just Giving fundraising pages are ready to take your donations. And remember, we’ll be matching whatever money you raise, up to the combined total of £25k (we thought we’d better set some sort of limit in case one of you turns out to be fabulously wealthy and decides to drop a million quid - which would, of course, be amazing, but might leave us scrabbling around a bit come payday Grin)

We’re mindful that most of you won’t be able to donate large amounts, of course - but small amounts are extremely welcome! And if you’d like to help out in other ways (we really don’t want anyone to feel bad about not being able to donate), we’d be very grateful for any noise you can make via Facebook, Twitter etc etc: the best place to link to to explain the whole project is here and the hashtag is #MumsnetGiving.

Thanks very much - here’s to raising lots of money for some brilliant causes.

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KatieMumsnet · 04/06/2014 13:00

And if any (or all) charities bust their targets, everyone can carry on giving and we'll carry on matching (up to that £25k point).

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KatieMumsnet · 04/06/2014 12:30

Hi All

Just to clarify. We match donations (big or small, and at any point, even if the total is less than £1k) up to a total of £25k for the whole Mumsnet Giving Week project.

This means if one charity raises £500 and another raises £10k we'd match both of those amounts, but if the total amount we'd need to contribute went past the £25k we'd stop at that point. .

Really hope that makes sense, essentially, for every penny donated to any charity we match it, up to a total pot of £25k.

And yes, only registered charities (Women's Aid and Haven House) can claim tax relief, the others are community projects so can't.

GermyElephant · 04/06/2014 08:17

I think HQ will shell out a maximum of £25k from their coffers.

cozietoesie · 04/06/2014 08:00

Not bad at all but there's still a way to go.

I'll confess to being a bit lost on the 'targets and matching' thing now but I'm hopeful that MNHQ will interpret their kind offer in a generous way in the event of doubt.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 04/06/2014 07:44

Ah yes - I thought of that afterwards myself - I expect that's right Galena
Come on Woolly Hugs.
How are all the others doing too?

Galena · 04/06/2014 07:31

I thought 'combined total' was combined across all the charities.

And I believe that a charity receives nothing from MNHQ unless it gets over £1000 in pledges/donations.

Come on WoollyHugs, you can do it!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 04/06/2014 07:15

In the OP to this thread MNHQ have said "up to the combined total of 25k" so if donations have reached 13k then we may have reached that point?

Not sure if all or any of the charities have reached their targets as yet though, and from something I was reading on JustGiving I think it's important that they do? Does anyone know more about the targets and what significance they have?

cozietoesie · 03/06/2014 21:52

As far as I can see (and add) the targets total £13k and MNHQ have said they'll kindly match up to £25k - so there's plenty of room even on that!

MrsKwazii · 03/06/2014 21:02

This is great MNHQ - so exciting to see Woolly Hugs at 82% of their target already! Can they raise more than the £1,000? Is that just their minimum limit?

GlaikitFizzog · 03/06/2014 19:13

Read!

GlaikitFizzog · 03/06/2014 19:12

Galena, you are right! I just don't real things properly

Galena · 03/06/2014 19:03

It's explained somewhere, that 3 of them aren't registered charities so cannot accept gift aid, whereas the other 2 can.

GlaikitFizzog · 03/06/2014 19:02

To get gift aid you need to be a registered charity, I know one of the causes is only working towards their registration. I can see the others have gift aid.

feetheart · 03/06/2014 18:56

It seems that for some on the list you can 'Donate' and then can do Gift Aid but on others it is a 'Pledge" and the Gift Aid icon doesn't come up. Not sure how this can be sorted but it would be good if it could be.

Brilliant idea MN, well done.

GlaikitFizzog · 03/06/2014 18:46

Forget that, I know why!

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 03/06/2014 18:44

That's odd Glaikit. Mine came up with GiftAid automatically. Did you previously use Just Giving while you weren't earning perhaps, and so it saved your settings?

GlaikitFizzog · 03/06/2014 17:43

Can I ask why there isn't an option to Gift Aid my donation? I realise that my pledge will be matched by yourselves, but I can usually include gift aid on just giving.

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KatieMumsnet · 03/06/2014 14:12

Hi All

It is stickied in active, it's just that we have a new system that rotates the stickies , so it won't always be at the top. But it's there. Promise. Do share away though!

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KateHMumsnet · 03/06/2014 11:40

Hi everyone,

We've noticed a few of you have had some issues with donating, thanks so much for alerting us to this. Here are some tips from JustGiving which may help:

-Check your browser settings. If the browser you are using disables external cookies, this may prevent JustGiving from communicating with your bank and authorising the donation

-Clear your cache or cookies

-Check the security settings on your computer, particularly if you're donating from a work computer, the security package may be preventing JustGiving from processing the donation

If this doesn’t work, please do give JustGiving’s help desk a ring – they’ll be able to walk you through the process and help you pledge, tackling any problems as and when they occur. Their telephone number is 0845 078 2063 (option 1) and they’re in the office between 9am – 6pm on weekdays, and until 5pm on weekends.

Thanks again all for the lovely donations!
Thanks Thanks Thanks

JugglingFromHereToThere · 03/06/2014 10:27

I was able to donate (a very little something) to Women's Aid this morning, but still having difficulty with the Free Cakes For Kids donation I was hoping to make.
Still, pleased to have been able to join in.

Hope this week goes well for all 5 charities and for our first MN charities week as it's such a lovely idea Smile

Bobtailstrikesagain · 03/06/2014 09:54

I've only just seen this. Make it more prominent please! Great choice of charities.

QuietNinjaTardis · 03/06/2014 07:27

Marking place so I don't forget to come back and donate when I have 2 seconds.

CateBlanket · 03/06/2014 06:47

You really need to sticky this all over the forum!