To ask how much you give to charity?

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A TAAT - sorry! Reading the go fund me thread and wondering if I'm really stingy. I give about £200 a year to charity.... £10 month to oxfam, occasional sponsorship / just giving (maybe once every 2-3 months), and if there's a big DEC campaign eg Ebola, Haiti. Other than that it's the occasional coppers in a collection box. I don't generally give to beggars, buy the big issue, give to people collecting in the street or door to door, and I've never received a go fund me request but wouldn't give unless I knew someone really well and was convinced it was 100% genuine. I avoid all telethons (children in need, comic relief etc )like the plague. Am I stingy, how much do you give?

I don't give any to charity. I do foster care babies though,so give of my time.

This is actually something I'm considering, at the moment I only give a few hundred pounds a year (plus 200/month to my parents - which isn't charity but is a gift) and I would like to significantly increase it to aim for 10%. I'm a Christian and would like to split it between the church and various charities.
However, I'm recently married and my DH and I have combined finances. He is not a Christian and is generally pretty unimpressed by organised religion so really wouldn't want to fund the church. He also pretty much doesn't approve of any charity that's what he would consider short term fixes (except crisis response) - which rules out a lot of things.
We are going to have to have a serious talk about it all soon.

There's no specific amount I give. But if there's a disaster or cause going around facebook ice bucket challenge I'll whip my wallet out. I'll give to family who are fundraising for a good cause and buy bits and bobs at stores that are for charity (breast cancer bracelets type things). But there's no specific set amount.

I'm a bit skeptical about big organizations since they put more money into marketing than they do the people they say they'll help.

But I do volunteer my time when I have it, and buy homeless dudes coffee if it's cold and I'm at the coffee shop.

I give a tenner to friends who want sponsors for the marathon or whatever, and the same to one-off campaigns such as the tsunami appeal. Every December, I buy a small gift for a child who's spending Christmas in a refuge via the John Lewis/Womens Aid gift list and I buy a £5 gift for the local children's hospice gift drive - there's a massive box at my local supermarket. So I guess about £100 per annum. I volunteer periodically with refugees, so I give time. I could give more time and money I guess.

10% of our joint income pre tax. Split between a few different charities. When we started giving it felt like a lot and we feared we would miss the free cash but honestly we havent missed the spare cash somehow.

Oh, and I do the charity dollars at registers here in the US. When you check out with groceries you're given an option to donate a dollar to a cause, I do that most times, unless we're running thin on pay checks.

So mine is really nickle and diming more than donating outright iykwim.

I feel a bit stingy now, 10% is a lot of money to give away!

10% of net income. Split between direct debits and one-off gifts (including e.g. sponsoring people at work and responding to disaster appeals). I have a separate bank account for it and the money goes out of my main account by standing order each month so it's not there to spend.

But I'm comfortably off, so I can't feel that self-congratulatory about it. I didn't tithe when I was a broke student: I was more in the random coppers in the collection box class then.

I'm also a bit sceptical about how it's spent... I read something about Ryanair charity scratch cards and how less than 1p from each card actually goes to charity.
A few bad eggs put you off.
I have in the past spent a year volunteering in Africa in the profession I am trained in, so really that's a whole years salary donated.

I give nothing, I can't afford it.

I just can't imagine giving away 10k+ a year. The people on here who are doing it must be Angels :-)

We spent a fair bit of time researching who to donate to. We decided to support a few charities with bigger amounts rather than spreading it around lots of them.

£60 a month to third world charity and volunteer 3 hours a week with a local charity.

Nothing. I used to donate to Oxfam but got fed up with them phoning me up and asking for more money, so I cancelled. Bit of an own goal for them.

As and when I want to. The odd extra £1 through EBay PayPal buys. £20 or so to Children In Need, whenever they do sponsored things on TV, i donate clothes to charity quite a bit, £1 or so in charity boxes a few times a year, poppy appeal etc. food bank box donations a few items. I should think it adds up.

I have done sponsored walks in the past, buy charity Christmas cards and even attend the odd charity dinner dance.

I wouldn't set up direct debits because the one and only time I've sponsored something that way I get cold calls all the time.

I'm put off by chuggers who used to be at Wimbledon where I worked... So many of them!

I've worked in admin as a temp at Cancer Research so know or guess how much is spent on admin...

I give £2 a month to NSPCC and £2 a month to Great Ormond St.

Have done this for the last 20 odd years.

I don't do the "hummitarian" things.

I keep it at home

First time oxfam called me I told them in no uncertain terms that I would not be increasing my donation at that time and if they ever called me again I would cancel my direct debit. I have never been called again and still give.

£25/month, which is stingy. We could afford more.
Me & DH are both secretaries for non-profit charities, too.

I buy a poppy once a year, Children in need, Red nose day et al can fuck right off.

Very little

I will sponsor people who are doing something hard like a marathon provided I like the charity they are doing it for
The occasional thing at school - cake sale or whathaveyou

I donate used items to charity shops & fill in the gift aid forms

Hard selling charities just gets peoples backs up.

I don't give anything directly to charity. When I'm in the UK, I enjoy playing the lottery, and some of that goes to good causes. I also browse charity shops.

I never do any form of donation which involves giving away my contact details, and I'm very rude to chuggers etc.

Not so much as I used to - charity fatigue and cynicism (sp) have gotten hold.
I still usually donate to the Sally Army Xmas appeal, and support Dog's Trust.