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

Bloody hell, I'm shocked by how low the donations to rape crisis are - £721 when I logged on.

I use mobile and desktop, Rowan, depending on which device I'm using. I've had sliders for other stuff, this week, but not this.

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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?

Cozie true - if you don't know what's out there you can't support it

I appreciate that, Noeuf - and that's a fair point for future consideration of general MN support I think.

For my own part, I have got some personal bias towards certain causes but as those are biases, I find it useful - as always - to have my horizons widened and the final cut was certainly well worth supporting. I wouldn't have fancied the task of choosing from the very many worthy causes nominated though.

Thanks BIWI that makes sense then. Cozie - it was because Mumsnet had asked advice from them following some long running discussions not out of my own personal bias that I felt they could have been included.

Noeuf - the Samaritans wouldn't have qualified though. This is one of the criteria for selection, from Justine's original post:

A few principles: ideally the organisations chosen won’t be huge, national charities that already get a lot of coverage and fund-raising welly

I think we all may well have charities close to our hearts, Noeuf, which were either not nominated or didn't make the cut for some reason. There will be other opportunities for MNers including opportunities to volunteer their services if they can't afford to donate at this moment.

Good choices but I'm disappointed not to see The Samaritans as they were directly approached by mumsnet for advice and now people are directed there.
However, nice varied choices and yes I will donate

I use Desktop and mobile versions. I did get a slider about it earlier, after posting on this thread, but I have developed a mental filter whereby I don't generally look at them, same as adverts. I have also remembered that there was an email from MN in my spam filter when I emptied it earlier, but can't check it now. I'm not being very helpful am I?

That's a good thought, Say.

I think we should all start little threads here and there with tenuous links. I have bagsied AIBU and getting ready for a flaming

My own inclination would be to start short threads, Rowan - maybe eg in AIBU (for traffic), SEN and Relationships. (I think you actually have to start them there rather than copying across because for some reason, copied threads don't seem to register at all on the App - at least they don't on mine. I simply haven't got this thread on the App version of Relationships although it's showing fine there on the Desktop site version of the board.)

Then you'd just have to rely on people who were involved to bump them if the reaction on the boards was reasonably positive. That would happen if people were committed.

I didn't get an email (I do get them from MN) and I never go to the homepage, I have bookmarked TIO and from there go to Most Active. I don't know what the answer is really. I did get an email from IPSEA.

I had an email from Mumsnet about it :)

It's a difficult one for MNHQ I suspect. If they flooded the site with Giving Week reminders and links then they'd likely have a load of complaints from people who aren't involved in it. Also, there are probably a whole load of MNers who don't access the site via the Homepage - where there is a lot of Giving Week publicity - but simply go straight to particular boards via bookmarks. Neither, it seems, do many people read MN emails (there has been a specific one about Giving Week) and that's even if they still regularly access the particular email account which is registered - some people don't.

I don't know the answer to it.

The first I knew about this was from an IPSEA email!

Donated. However I only found out about it from the IPSEA FB page, I rarely seem to notice sticky threads, this one wouldn't have caught my eye if I hadn't already known about it. Haven't seen it on any slidey things either.

Crikey - he managed fifty-five laps.

::rummages down back of sofa::

Thank you MNHQ for doing this. MN has saved me ££ over the years (well it has cost me a fair bit too reading book reviews!) - glad to donate in Giving Week and thank you for matching it.

DS is running at lunchtime and I have informally sponsored him to do so. He wants the money to go to my favourite charity. He doesn't know he's match-sponsored by MNHQ