If you won EuroMillions, what local causes would you fund?

[pinkksugarmouse]

Recently a UK resident won £181,073, 415.70 Over One hundred and eighty one million. Incredible. So you've won the euromillions. What cause or causes or problems in your local area would you want to tackle? I would like to do loads of things. But here are a couple. This is just for fun. Let's keep it lighthearted.

We need accessible children's playground's so that all children can join in.

I would like to set up better transport services for disabled people too. Not just shared rides where someone might have to travel many stops before arriving or getting home. And they could run much later so disabled people can have a better evening social life.

There are so few youth services. We need youth groups. There were some but they closed due to local funding. One was specifically for teens and young adults on the autistic spectrum. My daughter used it when she was younger. Its so sad that it closed.

In my town there is an animal sanctuary which is run mostly by one incredible woman. With a little but not enough help she cares for over 70 animals. I can't volunteer due to my disabilities. I would love to support her. Allow her to take on paid workers. Maybe she could even take a holiday although I doubt she would be away from her animals unless she needed hospitalisation.

She took in two rescued pigeons. One found by DD and one by me. She is one of few people I know who will care for pigeons. I give a monthly donation but the thought of being able to say to her "anything you need, just say, everything will be sorted."
I can but dream.

I have a dream of setting up a provision for adults with learning disabilities/autism as a day centre. My colleague and i daydream about it often. Would have a high spec social hub, life skills support, therapy rooms, sensory room, sensory garden, swimming pool, just a lovely space for them to learn, socialise and spend meaningful time. I would love to build one

I have a dream of setting up a provision for adults with learning disabilities/autism as a day centre. My colleague and i daydream about it often. Would have a high spec social hub, life skills support, therapy rooms, sensory room, sensory garden, swimming pool, just a lovely space for them to learn, socialise and spend meaningful time. I would love to build one

IceIceBabyBump interesting user name BTW 😀* *
It need not be charities. Just think about your town. What is there a lack of? What have been said to would be really good for the area?
I didn't know that about small charities using the RSPCA logo. That's interesting.

I would donate towards local mental health services,homeless,animal rescue charity local to us ,coeliac disease research and local air ambulance.

I'm so sorry you grew up in those circumstances. 🫂 I remember a girl at middle school who was teased for her dirty uniform. I was quite friendly with her. I got left out because of my arthritis. I was just so used to being around adults I found socialising with other kids hard but I think she understood. We just knew each other was putting up with shit that wasn't our fault.

I do wonder now about her home life. Were her parents neglectful? Or just not able to parent properly? Or maybe they didn't have washing facilities.
She would have been spared embarrassment from access to these facilities.

We later teamed up with a girl teased for being fat and a girl who was the only black girl in our school and felt she was seen as weird. I hope you had some support from a friend or kind adult. 🩷 Well done for your fantastic work.

Local causes to me that I'd support:
A cat rescue that's run by a vetinary nurse in her spare time.
2 separate wildlife care centres.
A group that provides bereavement support local children.
Local charity that provides food/snacks for families of children in hospital.
I'd give a donation to the primary & secondary schools that my children attend.
I'd also donate to a couple of children's wards that have helped us over the years.

I'm sure there are plenty more.

I'd donate to Meningitis Now, Child Growth Foundation & Child Brain Injury Trust (all relatively small charities compared to many). They're not local to me but are important to me for personal reasons.

I'd also help YANA in Malawi, a charity that helps very young girls who find themselves pregnant after SA.

I'd love to go on to Just giving (or similar) and anonymously fulfill various fundraisers.

With that amount of money, you could do so much to help so many & probably still hardly make a dent in your winnings!

I'd donate to my local hospital's Nicu but earmark the donations for things to make the parent's lives easier, like enough comfortable chairs to go round and a decent parents room.
I would also donate to Lymphoedema research for primary Lymphoedema as well as a local charity that helps families of seriously ill children who were amazing when dc was sick.

I think I’d donate to our village school and I’d also help a family that really needed it to get on their feet and do well for themselves. Someone gave us this chance a couple of years ago and it’s changed our lives . No more food banks just working for a decent wage I can now give my daughter a 5th birthday party which would have been impossible this time 2 years ago.

My town has a sports team that never does great, but my grandfather was a huge supporter. I’d put some funding towards that and have a plaque for him in the bar.

I would do something for infertile couples at the clinic where my son was made. Something for miscarriage charities and fund every expense for Lucies Animal Rescue (she’s on Facebook) including funding her and her families personal bills/expenses for life.

Most RSPCA homes receive little or no funding from the central charity.

If you want to donate to RSPCA, donate to your local branch.

I love that you worded it like that 'where my son was made.' 🩷
I'm imagining a child hearing that and thinking of a build a bear centre for babies or they are like a lego set.
It would sound so exciting to a pre-schooler. 😄

I'd build and fund the running of a purpose built sports centre for my dc sport.

I would pay the coach a salary but allow free reign over how they teach.
I would pay for kits, competition entry fees and travel expenses for the most talented to get to competitions.
Classes would be free.
It would have a gym for the public to help towards costs, again, talented students would be allowed to use this facility.
I would also incorporate space for a nutritionist, physiotherapist, personal trainer.

I would give donations to our local animal rescues.

Edited to add that we live in an eleven plus area. I would pay for tutors to deliver free 11+ tutoring to low income families.

My DS’s old respite centre- amazing place and amazing people.

My son’s old special school.

Young carers.

Fresh start for hens would receive a lot from me. They save thousands of chickens from slaughter and people like me adopt them and give them a loving home.

My two local RSPCA centres, they do such a good job of looking after people's unwanted pets, sometimes badly abused animals, and getting them back to a rehoming condition but get tarred by what the wider RSPCA as a whole do. They are all fond of the animals in their care, and it must be so hard for them sometimes listening to people slag off the RSPCA.

I have got all my cats over the years from them.

I'd rather secret millionnaire it and just randomly give people £100k if they were nice or seemed like they were having a hard day.

Our hospice at home would get a huge regular funding boost. They helped us so much and can’t afford to do the same anymore to the same extent.

There are so many young homeless men and women where I live. I can’t imagine how they survive on the streets. I would set up a charity to help them.

It wouldn’t solve the underlying funding problems with CAMHS and adult services so it would very much be treating the symptoms rather than the cause. You would need billions for that.

I would set up a residential centre for adult people like my ds who has severe autism. It would be like a little safe and secure village with a few shops and a cafe that they can work in if they want to/ can (supported ofcourse), a therapy pool, adult soft play, ot and slt on site, lots of sensory activities, carers who are paid decently so stay and don't use their job as a stop gap, a place for their families to stop when they visit, maybe a few animals, definitely a mcds near by for chicken nuggets....

Now you're talking. With a decent size garden I would adopt lots of rescue hens.
When I was growing up we had rescue hens. When the arrived they were in terrible condition but they are lovely. I had one trust me from the start. All she'd know from humans was cruelty but she came and sat on my lap. I was about 10. Its one of my most precious memories.

Lovely idea for thread.
I'd give some to the gender critical rabbit sanctuary.

I would also find out about best possible ways to support women locally - whether that be flexible working opportunities, support to escape abusive relationships, etc.
I would like to be able to pay volunteers. So many selflessly give time with no rewards.

I love the train idea above so I'd like to find something like that near me to build bridges (not literally - or maybe literally!) in the community.

How nice to be thinking of others instead of hopping onto Rightmove to find myself a new house.

My first thought was to help starter businesses set up in closed down high street shops. We've changed how we shop, so I understand the loss of those businesses, but there must be other goods users for those shop fronts that would make the high street vibrant in small towns and villages like mine.

I would give millions to my local charities

Childrens Hospice
Air Ambulance
Hospice

then I would give millions to the primary school/secondary school to set up funding for SEN support.

I would like to set up a charity as well to help people, along the lines of "At Home with the Braithwaites".... it would provide things for people who really need them, help with transport, or buy them a new washing machine, or school uniform, whatever they need for day to day stuff. Nothing fancy, just people who need a few hundred here and there.

I would set up a charity to provide counselling for children, as I spent hundreds on counselling for DD and it helped her so much.

I always said as well that I would buy a holiday home right on the seaside, and provide holidays for sick/disadvantaged children.

also, I would buy a couple of local pubs to save them, and turn them into some sort of community hub, so cafe by day, pub/restaurant by night, with all sorts of events going on.

Hopefully after all my good deeds, there would be enough for a house with a swimming pool, and to hire a chef, housekeeper, chauffeur, gardener and cleaner , and to go to Disneyland Paris on a regular basis, driven door to door by my chauffeur.