To ask what charities you regularly donate to, and why?

[GinnyJumperoo]

What it says on the tin really.

My husband and I are finally earning enough to enable us to donate to a couple of charities each month. We have been discussing causes which are important to us and although we haven't fully decided yet, we think we want to focus on charities which help sick children. GOSH being one of them. Maybe Ronald McDonald or the children's hospices such as Rachel House (we had close friends who used it and can't speak highly enough of it). Perhaps something like the children's hospital at the new big hospital in Glasgow.

I guess the reason is that we have two young children ourselves and we are lucky enough that they are healthy. Some of our friends haven't been so fortunate.

My favourite charity for child health is MSF www.msf.org.uk/article/photostory-day-msf-paediatric-unit

I donate to the local dogs home and MacMillans.

I donate to Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity.

Rightly or wrongly, I believe charity starts at home and in my local community so I tend to donate on that basis.

I also donate to Mary's Meals when I can. Another Glaswegian charity that I fully support.

Oh, sorry, why.....
I am a dog lover and can see the good work that is done with unhappy abandoned or mistreated dogs at this establishment.
MacMillans (may be spelling it wrong) were totally wonderful with DF in his last weeks, not to mention supporting DM.

We donate to a charity that looks for missing kids (in Belgium, where we live), and in the UK, despite being the slave of two feline overlords, I donate to the Dogs Trust as they don't put dogs down. As one of my cats is a rescue, and both live in a high degree of comfort, I think I'm doing my bit for felines.

I don't have the money to donate. I have some time spare. So I volunteer with a local 'at home' hospice who looked after DM in her last hours and allowed her to die at home and also I've done Mighty Hike's with Macmillan for last few years. Our Macmillan Nurse was amazing.

If I had money to donate, it would be MS Society, Blood Wise and RNLI

My Uncle died in his 30's of MS, my DM died of AML and my Dad was at sea.

We donate to Mary's Meals, MSF and Camfed.
We sometimes donate to the local hospice.
The others are mainly conservation/environmental charities.

BTW I'm aware that Mary's meals feed children worldwide but I've encountered them so many times in and around Glasgow and the work they do is fantastic.

Loaves and Fishes is another one. I've had he pleasure of hearing Denis Curran speak and he is so inspirinf

Four paws is the only one I Donte to due to funds. They help dancing bears mostly. If I had more money I'd look up whichever ones have the least pay going to the CEO's

The dog charity from whom we adopted our dog. And a local homeless charity because... um... they're homeless and i imagine that is pretty shite.

I donate 5% of my income tax to Multiple Sclerosis research.
In memory of my brilliant best friend at university who is now lost to the world.

I buy things via amazon wish lists for our local cat charity because I love cats but rent so can’t have our own. Also Bloody Good who provide sanitary products to asylum seekers just because I hate the thought of having to deal with periods etc when you haven’t got anything.

I donate to kidney research because my nan suffered and my Mum suffers with kidney problems and dementiaUK because of experience with it via work.

Local children's hospice.

Also members of NT, if that counts?

I donate to the Red Cross since my friend burnt her flat down, and the Red Cross people came along with the fire brigade and took care of them all with tea & blankets; also they do good work both here & abroad eg Syria.

I give food to the food bank when I can afford to.

I also forgot the why: MSF seem to get on with things, their communications are factual yet hopeful (no emotional blackmail).

I tend to not do a regular charity donation, however every year i set aside a largish lump sum and then choose a charity it goes to. I tend to choose small charities that can really benefit from a large one off donation rather than the big ones.

I have several friend who live exotic lives and occasionally stumble across somewhere foreign that really needs help (one year i donated the cash to a school in Nepal after the earthquake, one year my cash went to setting up an eye lab in Asia) but i also choose local ones occasionally - last year it was a charity that provided free lunches to low income families during the school holidays.

I give to Oxfam and Save the Children. I work as an aid worker though not for these groups but have seen the work they do and feel they are excellent at driving change locally and internationally through their advocacy work. I prefer to give to charities working in developing countries as regular income and UK charities as one offs and sponsored things I do.

Dogs Trust, Cat's Protection League, local animal rehoming charity-because I love animals and they get no government funding
Macmillan Cancer-my late mother received fantastic support from them when she had breast cancer
St Mungos and Trussell Trust-in keeping with my strong sense of social injustice and inequalities.

We donate to a couple of local charities that do work with adults with special needs. I've become aware of the potential lack of structure and support in these adults lives once they've left mainstream education. I have a friend whose daughter has Down's Syndrome and who has severe learning difficulties. She's 22 and my friend has given up her work to be her daughter's full time carer. Plus a work colleague's 24 year old son has autism and cannot live independently. These charities aren't always an obvious choice and often struggle. I think their work is invaluable.

I donate to Pregnancy Sickness Support who are a tiny tiny charity supporting women who suffer hyperemesis gravidarum and pregnancy sickness. I volunteer for them also as a peer supporter (I’ve had two HG pregnancies). This will probably sound melodramatic to anyone who hasn’t experienced HG but I feel I almost owe them my son’s life; I think I would have terminated were it not for their support among a sea of unsupportive/ignorant HCPs.

I sponsor various types of big cat via the WWF, I also donate to the PDSA - I love animals in general and cats in particular.

Guide dogs for the blind - they make a huge difference to quality of life.

Macmillan and Marie Curie - they do phenomenal work.

We (DH and I) donate to various other charities here and there - his are usually people related mine are usually animal related.

This is really interesting.

I must look up Mary's Meals.

I donate to UNICEF, a local children’s charity which makes bespoke prosthetics and other gadgetry for injured and disabled children and the rescue kennels we’ve always got our pet dogs from.
UNICEF because I like the work they do.
The local kids charity because I love the way they involve skilled private sector professionals in solving problems.
Celia Cross greyhound rescue because I love them!

The 2 older DC donate to the Dogs Trust (DD, 8). The adverts got her and she earns a pound a week by keeping the porch clean and tidy.
DS, 16, donates to the WWF but chose our local hospital as his Christmas charity this year.
DH donates to a cardiomyopathy charity and Shelter. I guilted him into doing it years ago!

I donate to Edinburgh sick kids as I’ve spent a lot of time in that hospital many years ago and it’s my way of giving something back and also to Rachel house which is a local hospice who do wonderful work as well.

I donate monthly to a local children’s hospice, because i’ve been there and seen the work they do, and it’s amazing.