What charities do you support?

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I currently support an orphan in Pakistan a 16 year old girl with human appeal and with Barnabas aid, I sponsor a Pakistani Christian child who lives in poverty and faces persecution to go to a Christian school.

Are there any other reputable charities you have sponsored children or women through?

Your comment is rather different from your thread title. Are you only wanting to hear about people supporting women and children, or charities in general?

What do you regard as reputable charities?

The Mission to Seafarers.

I read a book about the invisible world of merchant shipping (Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose George) - which we all rely on in our consumer-driven world - and the sometimes awful conditions in which crews (many of them women) have to work: poorly paid, far from home and often isolated because of language barriers. The organisation provides them with emotional, practical and spiritual support.

What I would say is that is i refuse to join the bandwagons about ceo and executive pay, where often quite reasonable wages for massive jobs are hoisted high as examples of corruption. I refuse to buy in to the idea that people should work for charities for cheap.

For example I used to work in a hospice as a teen, where there ceos wage was 100,000 which was seen as completely corruption, but people fail to understand how much the going rate for that kind of job is

I was paid as a domestic which had to match the nhs pay for domestics which is slightly above minimum wage, I then went into hca work (which i wouldnt have done if it wasn't more than the domestic wage), if I was then coming back as a nurse it would need to pay a decent step up, then the head nurse of that ward is the next step up, then the head nurse of that hospital is the next step, and so it goes on.

People need to have pay rises that reflect increases in responsibility but somehow its demonised

Our local youth club. No need to look as far as Pakistan, there are 6yos running wild in the estate from 3.15 until 6pm when their parents get home, regardless of the weather.
I make food, volunteer whenever I can so the village hall can be open for longer.

I'm running a 10k this spring for MND, and I'll run Race for Life in the summer for cancer research.

We support several charities but the only one to fit your criteria is Barnardo's.

The local cat rescue my girl came from. They do incredible work on very little cash.

And I volunteer at the LGB Alliance conferences.

My last comment is only applicable to those who are sponsoring orphans or children in poverty or girls at risk.

Family Holiday Charity. Helping families facing really tough challenges get a shirt UK break. Most have never had the chance ... and it makes a real difference now. Not some mystery time in the future of promised hope but now, when they're in the thick of it.

I support seven charities monthly but the only two that are specific to women and children are Refuge and BookTrust. The others are Water Aid, RSPB, Dogs Trust, Prostate Cancer UK and Parkinson’s UK.

I support our local food bank. I don't give money as such.

A distant relative of mine sponsors a school in rural Kenya. No idea what the charity is though.

Financially - my local Mind, my local animal sanctuary l, my local food bank.
Other ways: volunteering at my local Mind, volunteering at my local foodbank, trustee of 2 local charities involving children.

Wee note for ppl who support Dogs Trust, the local branches you see get no funding from national/centralised donations , several are facing closure due to lack of funds.

I support a national charity relevant to my child’s condition and a few local charities which work locally with disabled children and young people.

A local one that provides youth clubs for children from the age of 5 to 18 with autism. DS used to attend and now volunteers with them.

I dont give money to any charity.
But i do put my unwanted clothes and items in the clothes bank.

Run a clothes swap that supports locals, ie asylum seekers and young families.

Recently I’ve written stuff for Parkinson’s UK.

I don’t do big charity any more. Bit cringey busting a gut for free while the directors choose their new Jaguar.

I give monthly to the Samaritans and Medecin San Frontier. I change the charities every few years or so and next time I'll be looking at smaller, more local charities to support.
I used to sponsor a child in Senegal through Plan.
I have also left money to War Child in my will, but I very much hope they won't be seeing that legacy for many more years.

We support The Canal and River Trust as they've had a large percentage of their government funding slashed and we spend a lot of time enjoying the green spaces along our local rivers and canal network. We've recently spotted otters and kingfishers which is a great sign that the water is healthy and they are thriving. Just beautiful! We also support The Woodland trust for similar reasons. I used to volunteer my time as a sports therapist one day a week at Help for Heroes to give something back to our wounded servicemen.

Food and hygiene items to food bank, time and money to local green space, time and money to surplus food distribution.

I donate via Give as You Earn and support my local air ambulance and the Be More Laura Foundation (brain tumour charity).

I also donated to the Linda Norgrove charity at Christmas which supports women in Afghanistan. And I am probably going to add this one to my GAYE: https://www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/home

You reminded me that I am a member of my local canal trust and I also joined the Bumblebee trust last year when they appealed for funds to keep going. So as well as charity donations I am also a member of a few (also my local wildlife trust).

I would be interested reading your writing for Parkinson's UK as my brother has just been diagnosed.

I don’t support any specific women’s charities. I support animal charities, the Trussell Trust and St Mungos.

Loads locally - local epilepsy residential home, local independent living charity, local kids clothes bank, local music in the community charity.

My mum sponsors some dogs for the dogs trust on behalf of my kids but tbh they don’t open the letters.

Nothing globally actually.