Who do you donate to?

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Interested to know who people are charitably giving to these days and why.
I’ve always done a regular small DD donation to MSF after having my baby. It was horrific and I felt dreadful for women who weren’t safety in the first world like I was.
I give an odd bit for Palestine every year because I’m “angry” .
I love dogs and have had a couple of rescue dogs until recently. I now give a bit for a dogs charity that neuters dogs in Europe because it’s better than rehoming what are essentially feral dogs.
I do my local schools lottery because they need funds, as do I.

Interested to see MN trends.

Beast cancer annually on my birthday
SANDS annually on DC1 birthday
Miscarriage Assoc on DC2 birthday

Monthly: cancer research, Macmillan and PDSA.

Other, as and when I can: local hospice, support dogs, local hospital.

@caringcarer - I support Samaritan’s Purse too, despite the controversy. Like your nephew, I spent some time working with disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe in the 90s and know what a difference those kinds of gifts (toys, toiletries, sweets) meant to the children. I understand the viewpoint of those who say that the money would be better spent on societal change, proper aid etc, but, to me, it’s a way of making a small, tangible difference to the life of a child.

Refuge
Local foodbank and homeless shelter
52 lives.

@AnGofsMum, I was fully expecting to be disagreed with as in previous years. Like you I believe you can't give to every child or make huge societal.changes but you can make a difference to a few children.

Monthly DD to the local children’s hospice, also take all of our own grown toys/clothes to one of their charity shops.

Alzheimer’s Society and the Miscarriage Association

Aching Arms baby loss charity.

Samaritans and Buddy Bag Foundation

Animal charities only. A local one, one we have adopted from in the past, another one recently. The odd urgent appeal for rescues that I know are genuine like Go Fund Me pages for urgent cases etc.

The local hospice.
A homeless charity that’s local to us.
Our local hospital.

We donate monthly to our local church.

We sponsor a young lad of similar age to DS in Kenya through a small local charity. Rather than the generic sponsorship that the big charities do, our money actually pays for his education and we receive letters from him and photos from the charity. Pre covid we used to send out a small package when the charity travelled out there, and I wonder how it has affected him not to receive this. DS had the opportunity to meet him a couple of years ago and it had a profound effect on him.

We ChampagneCat donates food to our local RSPCA at Christmas and on her adoption day as thanks for looking after her. I disagree with the way that the RSPCA administers the enormous funds it raises annually, but am happy to support at a grassroots level.

We regularly drop items in the food bank and recently made a donation to the charity (whose name escapes me) that places the volunteers at the locks on canals who ensured our stress free passage on our first canal holiday, at all times with a smile and words of encouragement.

@Champagneforeveryone would you mind naming the Kenyan charity? This is something I'd like to do but don't want to use a " big" charity if that makes sense.

NSPCC
RSPB
Trussell Trust
Woodland Trust
Children's hospice

I am kind of intrigued by the posters who prioritise animal charities - would be interested to understand why.

Local air ambulance and another local charity that help people affect by DV and also run a food bank.
Toy/clothes donations to Sue Ryder shop.

Ernesto's Sanctuary For Syrian Cats. They take in all comers, often in a desperate state, sort out their health, keep them safe. Winter is a hard time, so very many cats abandoned.

@Classicblunder why not? They exist, animals need food and shelter, neutering and vet care. We each make a decision on what we prioritise for everything. For example for me, books over music, vegetables over fruit. It's a choice. There are so many charities to choose from

British Red Cross and Save The Children are our monthly direct debits.
Do card/calendar/gift buying at RNLI.

@Classicblunder

I am kind of intrigued by the posters who prioritise animal charities - would be interested to understand why.

They are the most well supported charities. The British like animals and loathe people.

I don’t loathe people.
Animals are dependant and vulnerable. They have no voice.
You can support all living creatures you know.

I make a small monthly donation to Centre for Women's Justice
www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/

Sponsor child with World Vision, done this all my working life 38 years. We donate to the local hospice and arts charities.

@Classicblunder why? What's it to you?

We do a variety of different regular and one-off donations. We sponsor a child via World Vision and do smaller monthly donations to a variety of charities like NSPCC, Macmillan, Cancer Research, FSIDS, Save the Children, Oxfam, Water Aid, London Air Ambulance, RNLI, there are more but I can't remember them all! These are typically £3-£8 per month each.

We do larger one-off annual donations (typically around £50 each) to GOSH, MIND, Crisis, British Red Cross, Age Concern, Christian Aid - usually when Christmas appeal letters come out - plus donations to appeals like CiN, Comic Relief and Stand up to Cancer. We also donate online to our local food bank (£50 per donation) every 3 months or so.

We are very lucky and have a high income and one of the nicest things about it is being able to support so many different charities and appeals. We don't support animal charities though, ever - it's a household rule. Not that we don't care about animals, we do, we just care about people more.

I only support animal charities. WWF, SOI Dog, PETA, The donkey charity and a few small rescues in Bulgaria and China