What / Which is your favourite charity and why?

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Ever scince l got my payout compensation l have given to charities.
My local hospice.. local Stepping stones ( to help mothers and kids in need) and Local Andys mens club.
I also donate to Children in need and Stand up to Cancer .
I Sponser a child through Action aid too.
I put a huge amount of money into an high interest account.
I now want to give to another couple of charities.
Any ideas and reasons why will be considered.
Thankyou.

Locally, Butterflies Haven- a charity providing youth clubs for children with autism. Talking Money- a Bristol based charity providing debt and benefits advice.

Nationally, Cancer Research UK.

RNLI. I know they are huge and benefit a lot from legacies, but I'm amazed there is no central funding. Mind you they would probably be leaving desperate people to die in the Channel if the government controlled their purse strings.

I volunteer for the Cinnamon Trust which connects elderly or housebound dog owners with people who volunteer to walk their much loved dogs for them.
And my local FoodBank charity who supply food to those who can't afford to feed themselves.

The Equality Trust, because it's the all encompassing issue of our times, and Woodland Trust, because it's best bang for buck on climate change.

Air ambulance. a great cause , and many good people work for them

Breast Cancer Care because they were fantastic to me when I had breast cancer. Also mcmillan, for the same reason.

Definitely not huge corporations like the Salvation Army.

Definitely yes to small grassroots direct action eg local food banks, animal rescue and help for the old and mentally ill.

Small and local = charities, not Amazon-style conglomerates or lobbying groups that don’t deliver anything.

RNLI and Air Ambulance. It's hard to believe that these two emergency services that save so many lives are paid for out of voluntary contributions and not by government funds.

Having worked for a large UK charity, they’re the very last people I would give to - the amount of wasted money is incredible.

I do give to Advantage Africa, a very small charity doing much needed work using indigenous workers rather than having a huge ex-pat workforce, with the associated wage bill.

As pp, for sadly similar reasons, SANDS

Local football team food bank

Air Ambulance.

Unfortunately, I'm much more wary of charities these days and try to look into whether they are decent or not for lots of reasons.

Another vote for your local Citizens Advice! The advice they give can be literally life saving, and they do so much to help people who have no where else to turn. They also lobby and campaign to tackle the root cause of the problems people come to them with and are not afraid to speak truth to power.

Young Minds.

Invest in mental health as young as you need to, don't let it fester.

Children's Hospice - having a child with a life limiting condition would surely be every parent's worst nightmare
Water Aid - I can't imagine living without fresh water
Crisis - well, if we can't help people when they are in crisis.....
Toilet Twinning - I can't imagine living without a toilet and proper sanitation.
Shelter - housing is such a basic human need, and there are so many people who are in inadequate housing (or none at all)
Homestart - if we can support young families to get off on a sound footing, life will become so much better for the whole family.

Then I think there are so many charities doing such fab work - MIND, National Autistic Society, Scope, British Heart Foundation, Stroke Association, Downs syndrome Association, Dementia UK, MND Association, and all the smaller, lesser known charities that support people with specific medical conditions, and fund research to try to cure, or better still, prevent.

Air ambulance - always assumed they got funding - they don’t
local hospice
local children’s hospice
macmillan - I’ve done several of their organised charity fundraisers

Womens Aid, DV charities, grief charity for children

or your local school? Im on a pta and we would like to fundraise for playground equipment which is £££. A donation to your local school (all donations raised go directly to the school) might enable them to purchase something like this

I give only to animal charities.

Why? Because animals don't have a voice, and we treat them so badly.

Apparently, donations to charity in wills are 90% to human charities and only 10% to animal ones.

Small animal shelters who are struggling to survive financially, and yet work tirelessly to rescue all the animals which the RSPCA refuse to help.

Samaritans
Air Ambulance
Wateraid
Red Cross
Sightsavers

I like Acts 435 (even though I am an atheist!) because you can choose actual people or families to support and your money goes directly to them.

I also do a monthly donation to Women's Aid (as a result of the stories I have read on the Relationships board here)

My Remembrance Day donations will be to Combat Stress and Refugee Action

Ronald mcdonald houses

I have a monthly direct debit to Dogs4Rescue, based in Manchester. They do amazing work with dogs that often would be pts otherwise. Watching how they bring the animals on is astonishing, and they have a number of dogs living well with significant disabilities.

More locally I have a DD to our city branch of Cats Protection - we had to let our beautiful girl cat go earlier this year after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and then adopted a wee boy through them. He rescued me when my heart was broken, so I am happy to give something back.

My DP had meningitis as a child and has a monthly DD to a charity linked to that, but I can’t remember the name of it.

Shelter no one should be homeless.

Blue cross they care more than the RSPCA.

Medecins Sans Frontiers and the Red Cross. Both manage to get into war torn areas of the world that seem out of reach to other charities. They do amazing work.