To ask advice on who to donate to right now?

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I started researching donating to food banks as they are so depleted but am worried that a bigger umbrella food bank charity may mean money not directly injected, but then smaller local ones might be slightly chaotic for obvious reasons (don't mean to offend).

Then I saw a big appeal by a cancer charity this morning and then a story about the desperate state of charities supporting terminally ill children after that.

Or should it be a GoFundme for NHS workers?? Or maybe a local family or individual???

What are you donating to and why? Also are you volunteering? I've signed up for local group to help elderly people shop but not been called on to do anything.

I'm donating directly to my local food bank as keeping people fed is an immediate problem. Usually we would go out for lunch or order a takeaway on either a Saturday or Sunday but we're not doing that right now so that's the money I'm sending to the food bank.

The food bank really need donations more than ever now

I've donated to our local Trussell Trust foodbank. I normally chuck extra shopping in the donation trolley, but figured they would need donations much more right now and can target purchases better to folks in need.
I'm about to be furloughed from work, but will do this each month for as long as I can afford to.
I hope wealthy celebrities are doing the same!

Yes was looking at Trussell Trust. It's just all those stories about only a small percentage going to the people at need and the rest on admin and staff costs in the bigger charities.

Yes am giving to food banks themselves. Just read that people don't just want basics, please give sanitary products, soap and shower gel, coffee, sugar, treats for kids. So I gave some shower gel and brownies and cake packs when I went to Sainsbo's.