How much do you give to charity?

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Just that, really. Wondering what is normal?

I give to whatever charity the school is collecting for on non-unifom days. I donate to the food bank whenever the school ask me to. I buy a lot from my local charity shop

I only really donate so my child doesn't feel left out. I am pretty much donating to people on a low income, when I am on a low income too.

I work for a charity working in a local community hub and whilst it's hugely rewarding, I earn peanuts so no don't give to charity unless it's the odd £5/10 sponsoring a friend or similar.

I give £100 a few times a year to animal (mainly dog) rescues. I sponsor friends and family quite generously if they are doing a charity event to raise donations for their chosen charity. I put food in food bank collections but irregularly.

£300 a month between 6 charities on give as you earn plus an average of £100 a month on random requests/sponsorships etc and £1000-£1500 at Christmas.

£5 a month to TOMMY's

We do £20 a month each to The Trussell Trust And Save The Children

Plus we always donate £200 to the homeless charity Crisis, in November to help with their Xmas Expenses.

I want to start a monthly donation for Refuges too so am looking into that.

Greenpeace, FoE, RSPB, Wildlife Trust, Trussell Trust, Sex Matters regular standing orders plus a £25 month budget for crowdfunding appeals.

It used to be more but with a uni student to support times are tighter.

Our target is 2.5% of income after tax, achieved through a mix of monthly direct debits, ad hoc donations through the year, and lump sums at Christmas.

Nothing

£13 per month to the Brooke

About 10% of our pay check. We also volunteer hundreds of hours a year. It makes us happy

I give a day of my time as a volunteer, and a variable amount as a trustee of the same organisation.

I don't give a regular amount of cash to charity. These days I give it when I come across a specific need in a very poor country that I visit regularly. The most I've given is £2,000 when I was still working. More often it's around £100 now that I'm retired.

£75 a month to our local church. Other ad-hoc amounts, for instance £11 to coffee morning supporting cancer recently. About to send £10 to a local charity. Occasionally to food bank but not so much since I started having most of our food delivered. £20 to a retriever charity. £10 to sponsor someone on a walk for a dog rescue. £5 to an African charity and £5 to a Ukrainian charity. Think that is all this year. Would like to do more but we are fully committed at the moment.

I used to donated £25 to Women’s Aid and £25 a month to Lumos until I was made redundant. While I was out of work I got into a lot of debt and I’m focusing on paying that back first before I restart my direct debits.

I give money probably less than £1000 a year
i give about £1000 of goods
but mostly time. My professional services probably equivalent to £25k a year

No set amount anymore ie direct debits as cant afford it being another ' bill'
But put in food trolley in tesco, harvest festival at school, school charity event donations.
But monetary none unfortunately

I give a monthly donation to a local charity who helps bereaved families. They helped me when my dd was murdered.

I also give a donation to a local Dementia charity.

I usually put something the food bank trolly when I do my weekly shop.

Nothing
I’ve worked in too many charities where money is wasted, mainly due to incompetence and the absence of effective management.

We tithe to our church, so 10% of gross income. And usually another 5-10% over the year to other charities.

I have worked for small charities in the past, where I have seen the impact of others' generosity so take it quite seriously.

Cats Protection League £3 month by dd. Kafunjo Community £12.50 every month sponsor child by dd. Other charities often for disaster eg Pakistan floods £20. Shoe box appeal at Xmas 3 shoeboxes plus postage. I make a £5 contribution to Poppy Appeal every year but wear same poppy broach each year not paper ones. I also help out family members occasionally.

I am giving my £66 / month energy bill support to the Trussell trust - they run around 95% of UK food banks - but an unfortunate name right now

Also pay £20 / month to SOS Childrens' Villages, £5 to woodland trust and maybe £20 on for justgiving type fundrasing

Is it really as many as 95% of foodbanks being run by Trussell Trust? Certainly not in my area. Not saying it isn't a fantastic cause... just asking about the stat!

About £20 a week to foodbank, sometimes food, sometimes donation.

I don't make regular payments to charity. I tend to donate items to my local Emmaus (homeless charity) so they have had decent sofas, beds, furniture, electricals and crockery over the years which they can sell on. I take clothes and shoes to the oxfam drop-off in M&S. I also make a yearly donation to compassion in world farming. I donated £100 to help Ukrainian refugees (I'd saved up for something but it was no longer important when the war broke out). I don't earn a high salary (below the average but higher than minimum).

I read that Ricky Tomlinson has donated around £1M to Alder Hey hospital and £200k to a human milk bank which made me like him even more, a very generous man.

There is no "normal".
People have vastly different budgets and also very different attitudes to giving.

Charities do really find it helpful if people can give regularly though.
I highly recommend setting up Standing order to a charity of your choice - even if only for £3 or £5 a month. Then, when you are able, you can either increase it or set up another one to a different charity, and another one and so forth.