How much do you give to charity?

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Just that, really. Wondering what is normal?

3 orchestras I play in are all reg charities so they each get £150/year (subs) plus gift aid.
Clearing out my late parents house I have donated so much stuff to the local hospice shops which they are making good money on esp. with the gift aid. I hope they let me know how much all the donations raised at some point, it would be interesting to know. I shop in charity shops a lot too. Something in the food bank most weeks at the supermarket

We give directly to a local animal rescue center a few times a year. Food, toys, money, blankets, old towels etc.
Charity collection bags.
Rarely actually buy from charity shops. I think it can be just more mindless consumerism where you buy something you don't really need because it's a fiver.

Interesting thread
I volunteer a fair bit (PTA, a local charity? pony club, parkrun, riding club committee, have been a charity treasurer/trustee).
My regular donations are all FWR-inspired these days; a woman's place, sex matters and LGB alliance. I also give to crowdfunding for most women's rights legal cases.
I do £100 at Christmas to lumos and gave £100 to my local foodbank last week.

Agree about there not being a 'normal' I am on the board of trustees for 2 local charities, I regularly donate to the local village FoodBank and I often shop in Charity Shops.

£20 a week. Not because I can afford it, but because it's overdue child maintenance, in respect of my 28 year old.
It's the minimum amount my ex can pay, to keep the CSA off his back. My son doesn't want it, and it's too late to make a difference to us.
So, we donate it to crowdfunders for, eg, women leaving DV.
That way, he can see that 'his' money has gone to a cause he does not agree with, when he 'spies on me' via FB.

Zero.

None, I’d struggle to afford to. I put some bits in the food bank tubs a few times a year

£3 a month to the WWF for ds2's sponsored gorilla.
Otherwise it's adhoc donations for appeals / charity days at school.
Dh works for Oxfam and I do a fair bit of charity shop shopping as well. Always buy charity cards, calendars etc.

£30/month split between four charities.
£20/week to my church.
Ad hoc responses to e.g. Ukraine appeal as and when.

These amounts used to be more, and used to be Gift Aided, when I was working. Now in retirement I’m not eligible to Gift Aid. I do however volunteer up to two days a week.

Also shop in charity shops, always buy charity Christmas cards.

It probably varies £30-50 per month.

4x direct debits to charities my Grandma supported so I carried on payments when she passed away.

Plus food bank donation. Waitrose have a great scheme where you can buy a bundle of products in a paper bag that are needed locally. Really neat.

This week - £2.50 because I bought a book from a charity shop.
I tend to donate more by giving outgrown books/uniforms etc to the local primary school or by volunteering my time so an event can actually happen.

About £10 a month on average, between sponsorship, school collections, food bank, local hospice and sometimes one off appeals

£4 a month to a local community lottery thing. All the proceeds go to a local charity of your choice.

Nothing regular but I’ll give to charities that are meaningful to me. I gave £500 to the hospice my dad passed away in - he was only in there less than 24 hours before he died but they were amazing. My next donation will be for the Mesothelioma charity that helped us so much.

5% of income every year

Regular variable amounts every month to small local cat rescues. My niece does sponsored events for Alzheimers and the BHF every year and I donate generously to those.

£5 a month to the Woodland Trust
£5 a month to my county’s Wildlife Trust
£4 a month to a community lottery thing, I’ve chosen for my entry £ to go to the local Scouts
£100 to the local food bank at Christmas

I definitely prefer to donate and spend money on my town/county.

Before children, thousands a year, because we genuinely wanted to. Now, where we can.

Well their website claims that!

Very sad if they do
Evangelical Christianity with your food parcel- the deserving poor concept!

Interesting. It might just be my area, but I happen to know quite a lot about local foodbanks, and I don't think Trussell account for even 20% of them!! That isn't to say that they don't do a great job. Merely that there are lots of other community-led initiatives that do an equally good job, and that I would be surprised if it were really as high as 95%.

But maybe most of the foodbanks around the country are Trussell Trust and it's just my area that's an anomaly. 🤷‍♀️

Total monthly is £45 a month. I bring home £1600. I really need to get organised and do it through give as you earn.

I thought I read 95% of food banks. But their website does say 1200 across uk.

A couple of items in every supermarket shop for the local food bank (I go on their website and see what they need most). Plus all our wearable old clothes etc go to charity.

Pre DC I had a couple of regular direct debits, but things are tighter right now.

Ah, that sounds more like it.