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It’s Giving Week 2015! Click here to raise money for MNers’ favourite charities

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JustineMumsnet · 08/06/2015 12:18

Hi all,

Well we’re delighted to say that today marks the start of Mumsnet Giving Week 2015 in partnership with Just Giving, when we ask you to donate as much as you can to five charities nominated by MNers - and MNHQ matchfunds the total (up to a maximum of £25k, just in case one of you turns out to be a billionaire).

We asked you to nominate on this thread (a rather tear-inducing read in itself tbh) and we’ve whittled it down to these five causes:

Abortion Support Network
Count the Kicks
SWAN UK
Rape Crisis England and Wales
IPSEA

You can find out more about what they do here.

So - what we need you to do now (please) is:

Donate! Remember - only donations via the dedicated pages on JustGiving listed above will be included in Giving Week totals and match funded by MNHQ.
Tell ALL your family and friends - donations don’t have to be from MNers, it all counts! (So long as it’s via the JustGiving pages).
Shout about Giving Week on Twitter and Facebook - hashtag #MNGiving; if you follow us on Twitter @MumsnetTowers and like us on Facebook, you can RT or share our posts there.

If you need further motivation, there’s this from Knotty and Pistey from Woolly Hugs, which was one of last year’s organisations:

‘We received £2391.18 - an extraordinary amount for us. If someone donates £1 we are thrilled, so it was a real game-changer. It has helped to secure our position, which feels FABULOUS. We have been given time, freedom and space to think about taking Woolly Hugs forward, rather than thinking about where the next fiver will come from. We’ve always been ambitious for Woolly Hugs in our hearts, but the funds are helping us to BE ambitious.’

We raised around £23k last year - let’s smash that total this year, eh? We don’t want to have to spend our £25k on biscuits and gin...

It’s Giving Week 2015! Click here to raise money for MNers’ favourite charities
OP posts:
SandWitch · 14/06/2015 11:09

Glad to get my donation in on time.

Really hoping those charities who are not quite there yet meet their target.

cozietoesie · 13/06/2015 21:30

ASN and SWAN seem to have met their targets. Count The Kicks, Rape Crisis and IPSEA have not - yet. (But the appeal still has 24 hours to go.)

fiddlybulb · 13/06/2015 20:11

Evening bump

PolterGoose · 13/06/2015 12:46

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cozietoesie · 13/06/2015 12:45

I don't think there's been a new all-at-a-glance update but if you click on the charity links in Justine's OP, you can see them individually by charity.

Yamahaha · 13/06/2015 12:26

How do we find out the totals now please?

cozietoesie · 13/06/2015 11:48

It looks as if Rape Crisis and IPSEA are improving a bit.

LoveTheWets · 12/06/2015 17:28

I've braved aibu to try and get support for Rape Crisis but my thread has ony got tumbleweed so far.

MNHQ
RowanMumsnet · 12/06/2015 16:19

@cozietoesie

I think those totals are still going up, Rowan - sorry about the Gin and Biscuit Fund and all. Grin

yeah, looks like we're going to be down to our last few gallons/tonnes

plinkyplonks · 12/06/2015 15:47

Agreed with PP - only noticed this until today :(

Donated now!

cozietoesie · 12/06/2015 15:44

I think those totals are still going up, Rowan - sorry about the Gin and Biscuit Fund and all. Grin

MNHQ
RowanMumsnet · 12/06/2015 15:22

@EcclefechanTart

Couldn't this go on Discussions of the Day? I've inly just found it and I'm sure lots of other people haven't seen it either. It's especially hard on the phone.

Thanks - we've added it now.

Here are the totals as they stood this morning - last few days to donate! And thanks so much for what you've done so far; with two-and-a-bit days to go we've already beaten last year's total Flowers

It’s Giving Week 2015! Click here to raise money for MNers’ favourite charities
cozietoesie · 12/06/2015 13:48

Good idea - especially for the last full 24 hours. After all, we have to save MNHQ from themselves. (The gin money. Grin)

EcclefechanTart · 12/06/2015 13:17

Couldn't this go on Discussions of the Day? I've inly just found it and I'm sure lots of other people haven't seen it either. It's especially hard on the phone.

Heckler · 11/06/2015 20:29

Great stuff that ASN has been chosen. Thank you MNHQ.

cozietoesie · 11/06/2015 14:21

Who can tell, WhoKnows? I have no particular knowledge of any of the charities in Justine's OP so I just had to respect the views of fellow MumsNetters. I guess we'll all be coming from many different places.

cozietoesie · 11/06/2015 14:18

It takes me to the ASN background and donation page on JG.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 11/06/2015 14:18

Well, for me there is one that I have had a great deal of help from in recent years and have been meaning to donate to anyway, so I just went to that one and didn't even consider the others, but I may not be typical in that.

HermioneWeasley · 11/06/2015 14:12

Justinemn the link about ASN just takes me to the giving week page?

cozietoesie · 11/06/2015 14:05

Hermione and WhoKnows

I actually wondered whether it was something as simple as their positioning in the list in Justine's OP - ie people starting off with a mind to donate 'so much' and then running out of steam by the time they got to the fourth or fiifth charity? It was an idle and passing thought though.

HapShawl · 11/06/2015 13:36

Folks who are concerned about the "medication by post" should watch the documentary Vessel vesselthefilm.com about the organisation Women on Waves/Web to get a full understanding of what happens

ASNMara · 11/06/2015 13:26

Thanks so much to everyone who has been supporting not only Abortion Support Network but the other charities as well. And to #MNGivingWeek for choosing us!

Justforblogprofileadmin · 11/06/2015 12:50

I'm guessing that ASN's information-giving in relation to drugs-by-post is carefully shaped to remain within the law and to remain ethical, and that the deleted text stated their practice in too shorthand and casual a manner to convey the care that they take. Which was probably why it was deleted.

"Illegal pills" is a sloppy phrase. What, if anything, is illegal? Selling? Buying? Taking? Whichever, it isn't likely to be illegal to point someone in the right direction to make an order.

And now I've read MN's update it looks like there isn't any illegality in the actual supply of the meds, either.

They are a registered charity and it is unlikely that they would fail to be rigorous about remaining within the law, since illegality would violate their charitable status, on top of any other penalties it might attract.

I hadn't donated, but I will now because the thought of the grief ASN might be getting for this is infuriating.

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JustineMumsnet · 11/06/2015 12:37

@timetosmile

pjsaunders.blogspot.com

There's on interesting post here about potentially illegal activity by the Abortion Support Network, worth a read I think.

The moral or other arguments surrounding abortion/pro-life/pro-choice aside, is anyone from MNHQ around to discuss the points being made here and elsewhere in the media today?

Here's an update we've posted in response to the Telegraph's reporting of our backing of this charity fyi.

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 11/06/2015 12:26

I wonder if that's because Rape Crisis is a relatively well known charity compared to the others. Clearly it still met the criteria, but the others are more niche so maybe people are choosing those as probably being more in need.

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