It's still not about begrudging the end user if a service. No poster on here who is anti CIN has said that. There is a lot of deliberate misunderstanding going in here because we have the audacity to question.
Of course I bring up my children to understand how fortunate they are both in the macro sense - we live I. A developed country with good infrastructure and reasonably free speech Eric and the micro - mummy is able to pay for x y and z because of my income - private swimming lessons/nice toys/days out/expensive clothes etc cannot be taken for granted or undrappreciated.i also teach them the same about non material things being equally valuable as in dd is v lucky to have 2 devoted (but separated) parents, loving GPS who live close by, a dozen close friends and their families who are nigh on siblings to my dds. I am rambling but you get the idea.
I also try and teach consequences both pustule and negative ax in telling dd1 (3) that though she is lucky to have lots of friends to play win at nursery, that probably everyone likes dd1 because she is a kind girl who is v friendly with new children and is good at sharing etc etc.
Meanwhile as they get older I feel strongly about teaching my dc why deification etc exists and the reality of social inequality. I grew up in the 80's and my parents supported the miners. Thru sent outgrown toys and clothes of mine to the north and explained the unfolding events as best they could to a primary school aged child. I agree with the poster who says the true charity is time/resources which are given entirely willingly and not through guilt/naive ity.
I prefer to support charities at a local level. Someone mentioned hospices etc not bring government funded. I support a local children's hospice v willingly. Dd1 thinks their local charity shop is a toy shop anyway 
and we give all our goods donations to them and a local refugee charity. I prefer my input/£ to stay tight here in my city and help the real people I know about who need it.
We are also supporting a friend who's dd is raising money for her own cultural exchange to an African county to teach English and do aid work. This young person is exactly the role model I want for my dds and I think it's v valuable for them to see real ground level fundraising all the way through to it paying for flights and then seeing the pictures and listening to the vying person talk about where the money went etc. no celebrities required here and v minimal overheads.
We'd also support a small charity who are racing finds to support one child through lengthy cancer treatment at a hospital not in our city - as in him having to be away from home is important for dds to understand. Dd has attended various activities for this project and the child is only couple months older than her and we know the family. Again local stuff where everything is transparent and easily understood by small folk.
I don't agree that CIN reaches people who don't normally give to charity. That is at best patronising but again I'd be interests. To see the demographic of tbf average donating family. If they are Lowe income families who donate but do not vote I imagine Dave Cameron is laughing all the way to the bank.
I'm just so ashamed. This is a first world country with huge infrastructure there is no valid reason why all the services provided by CIN cannot be government funded and its v Thatcherist that they arnt. I am apostles voters accept this situation so willingly - beg money back from the poor to pay for stuff needed by......the poor but diverted through so slebs and private enterprise a long the way.
We have to (apparently) keep the rich happy in case they leave the uk and take their pennies with them (which we refuse to tax any further) but its ok to harrass the poor to pay for the shortfall because they can't leave and frankly who cares aboard the poor anyway....(not any Tories aimless they require them to make them look worthy).
I feel the same about help for heroes it makes me so 
that I could vomit. How very bloody dare the government send troops to fight a war most of the country don't agree with, often not properly equipped, allow them to be killed or seriously injured and then refuse to pay got treatment/rehabilitation/anything on their return. Army charities should not have to exist - its a foul miscarriage of justice and supporting cin (lower case) is going the same way. I cannot and will not just blindly give money and hope for the best.
Bit if a rant - had a baby 5 days ago - hormones/pain meds/waiting for 6am feed.....I don't mean to offend anyone on purpose - these are my values and just mine 