to be disappointed that MNers haven't got off their arses and

[MardyBra]

exceeded the targets for the MN giving week?

Here's the thread link:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2087731-Giving-Week-is-here-donate-funds-to-MNer-nominated-organisations-and-MNHQ-will-match-them?msgid=47541127

Wikipedia tells me that there are 4,800,000 monthly users of MN. So if we all just get a quid each, that'd be £4.8m. So £25k should be more than achievable.

I see that some of the causes have reached their target, but what Womens' Aid have only had just over a grand.

MN are offering to match our donations, and there's gift aid too, so it's a very effective way of donating.

A quid each. More if you can afford it.

NOW

*give a quid each, not get.

Perhaps they prefer to give to their own choice of charity.

Well I give every month to charity via direct debit and it is no business of yours or anyone else's which charities I choose to support. Quiet giving without publicity is just as good as making a song and dance about it. So YABU.

Virtual and and and and [biscuits] for anyone who donates/has donated or bumps this thread.

We can do this.

I didn't even know this was happening

Bloody hell. AIBU at its best.

"I didn't even know this was happening"

Which is exactly why I wanted to highlight it on the busiest part of the site.

YABVU

Eh?

It's the last day of giving btw, so fingers out now.

Would you care to elaborate guitargirl

It's fine to highlight it in case people haven't seen but a lecture just turns me off.

Um, I know this is just a technicality, but you can't actually just give a quid? I think it's £2 minimum of just giving.

Bloody hell. AIBU at its best.

??

"It's fine to highlight it in case people haven't seen but a lecture just turns me off."

I am trying to be controversial to stir up some interest ffs.

Have just donated to the Women's Aid page.

"personally i think cake for kids is a daft idea."

There are five charities there though.

YANBU to be disappointed. YABU to tell us to do something about your disappointment.

Well actually, I take that back, you are not being unreasonable to be disappointed as obviously you are entitled to feel how you want.

But you are being unreasonable - IMO - to try to demand that people donate to charities, chosen by others, when they may have perfectly good reasons for not doing so.

"Um, I know this is just a technicality, but you can't actually just give a quid? I think it's £2 minimum of just giving."

My apologies. Didn't realise that.

Thanks MardyBra. I didn't know about this, so I have now donated the women's aid.

Thank you for highlighting this and I'll be donating.