£100m philanthropic gesture -what cause would you support?

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David Harding has donated £100 million to Cambridge University.
If you had a similar sum to donate to a cause or organisation in the UK, who would receive your donation or what project would you set up?
In my city, I would fund the building of some sort of supported and subsidised housing for women and children who are finding it difficult to leave their partners for whatever reason; a kind of village style gated community with some shared facilities, creche, counselling and coaching, as well as regular free surgeries for legal and financial support.
How about you?

Help for women who leave prison.
Social housing in my local area.
Financial support for young athletes.
Small grant fund for people fundraising ie people who want to buy a specialist wheelchair, holiday with a disabled child.

I'd move to a seaside town and selfishly redevelop it with grants for new businesses and support for older people's care.

Supported housing for young people with mental health issues.
There is just not enough support & more cuts are being made to the little help out there

I'm not in the UK, but mine would be donated to support access to mental health services for youth.
There are just so many struggling, asking for help, and not getting the support they need.

I'd set up a trust aimed at improving access to education and employment for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and people escaping abusive relationships. It would provide grants for tuition fees and living costs and maybe also support costs for internships (I hate the concept of unpaid internships but as they still exist I would want to help people who can't afford them off their own backs access them). It would particularly prioritise political education and engagement to try and broaden the range of people in government at all levels. But you'd be able to apply if, say, you were a woman who'd left an abusive partner who wanted to go to university, do a vocational course, maybe train as a nurse or a doctor but couldn't afford the fees.

Education should be available to everyone, not just those who can pay.

Either something like the Poppy project who run lots of schemes and shelters for trafficked people or put it into research or treatment of a certain condition. I remember years ago hearing about a treatment the nhs had for something which could cure a condition but due to it being expensive it was only given to those in later stages so people with it mildly had to wait until they became really unwell to access treatment. Hopefully things changed for that but you could help everyone with a certain condition

help for people with disabled adult children. help for holidays for adults with disabilities.

I’d use it to save historic buildings on the At Risk register. That amount would probably renovate about... three.

Mine would go to The Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Mountain Rescue and my local homeless shelter.
In fact, I'd try and find a several storey building to kit out with beds galore, a pharmacy, showers, massive kitchen and laundry so people could come and go as they please.

I'd find a way to subsidise housing for young families who are working but poor and struggling to stay afloat.

GOSH

I'd invest some into Housing First projects as the evidence seems to show that they're highly effective at getting people off the streets.

Some into early intervention projects - like Magic Breakfast free breakfast clubs for disadvantaged kids who often arrive hungry.

... Though in reality I'd probably achieve more by donating the money to charities in developing nations - much cheaper to educate a child in Africa than it is here, and it's the difference between education or no education.

Doing Good Better by William MacAskill is a fascinating and highly relevant read amzn.to/2Bhrgn6

Fair Play for Women.

I'd relaunch the children's centres in my area, properly fund them and £100million would run them for around 80 years.
They were such a massive asset and did such good work, the area has really suffered since they shut them.

Grrr... If Harding had wanted to help less well-off people in Cambridgeshire he should have pumped that money into the bus services! I read an article last month about a chap that has to do a 24 mile round trip on foot to sign on weekly, as he a)can't afford the bus (£7, quite a lot out of 1 week's UC) b) they're cutting the only bus service at end of march 2019.

Universal breakfast club and after school/homework/supper club. Full bellies and a safe environment could make such a difference.
Rich people always spend their money wrong.

I would cheat and go outside of the UK and give it all to save orangutans. Their habitat is being destroyed at a fast rate and it's estimated they could be extinct within ten years.

There certain cat charities i am linked with local to me about 4 of them so i would give each one ten thousand pounds towards their vet bills so that their other resources could be used for other priorities , there is one lady who looks after two feral colonies in manchester whos dream is to build a small sanctuaray for the ferals, i would give her £10000 so she could buy the land and set up the initial pens etc, i would donate another 10000 to our local food bank , 10000 to local womens refuge. 10000 to local salvation army as these look after people who are at the lower tier of society and these three charities do a lot of good in the community, the last 20000 i would lease a building of some sort so that training for jobs for people with disabilities could be accessed

Fund research into brain cancer - they get so little funding (they only make up 2% of all cancer charities) and the survival rates are shocking and lagging way behind other major organ cancers.

Planet earth. It would help literally everyone. We all seem to have our head in the sand about how bad things could get soon- and of course the poor will be worsf affected

I'd donate the whole lot to our local Wildlife Trust so they can buy up all the ancient woodland round here that's currently under threat from developers.

I would split the money across multiple small scale causes and charities. Money shared is going to help more people than giving a huge lump sum to one cause. Although I think this about the way the National Lottery operates as well. Giving 50k to multiple people would do so much more good than giving 100 million to just 1 person or organisation.

GOSH
NeST (nephrotic syndrome charity)
Children’s mental health services

I would set up a fund people could apply to for money towards treatments they either need to pay for privately or need to pay for abroad so that no one needed to fund raise to save their own child.

I'd spend it all on building one of those little model communities they used to make back in Victorian times - shop, hardware, different trades and skills, school etc. Back up with proper therapy and support for those moving there.

Then fill it up with people who really needed a new start - homeless, fleeing domestic violence, etc.