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.

@RamblinRosie my boss volunteers for StreetVets - none of the veterinary staff involved are paid for their time. They do a great thing.

Pads4Africa. Getting menstrual care to girls across Africa so they don't drop out of school.

Lincolnshire air ambulance or air ambulance. And st barnabus

My top choice would the Fistula Foundation. It helps women who have had devastating yet preventable injuries in childbirth. It can completely transform their lives.

The Orbis flying eye hospital or similar charities that prevent blindness in poor countries also do incredible life-changing work.

Centrepoint. They have a very good success rate in getting young people off the streets and into work or education. They genuinely turn lives around for youngsters who without intervention would be at serious risk of a wasted life and an early death.
And Battersea - all four of our cats are rescues from them.

According to my friend who works in a school in Africa, this has been very successful. He works with a different charity, but the idea is the same.

It's a disgrace that it requires charity donations. It should be tied with the NHS or other govt organisation.

Local hospices. Was very happy that when my late DGM died earlier this year she chose the local hospice to her for donations.

Whenever I am in different parts of the country, I always visit their charity shops and seem to buy more stuff from them than national and international CS.

Also work for a local and can echo everything said here!

Local animal charities and the RNLI.

I live by the sea so can see the RNLI work everyday and I prefer to support smaller, local animal shelters.

I have worked in the charity sector for a long time and I would never give to most big national and international charities. I have seen too much money wasted on consultants, vanity projects, bullying payouts and senior management salaries. In these charities he volunteers and front line staff are usually amazing, but the Trustees and senior management are appalling.

Khalsa aid, when you give to Khalsa aid you’re also essentially saying you’ll volunteer in your area if needed. This also reduces movement of stafg as smaller trained groups can be sent to some areas, so where its something like food distribution to refugees etc this will always almost be distributed by local supporters, rather than sending a team out, this hugely reduces the cost of providing aid.

Free holidays for LAC children, we have a small holiday home in the UK, a little static in a holiday park, we’re part of some charities that provide free holidays for LAC, our main ‘user’ is Timpsons, but also Barnardo’s, the LA we adopted from also use it, sometimes for recently reunited birth families who may not have the funds to go on holiday.

Salvation Army was one of my favourite charities but I've now read they've associated with bloody Stonewall!

The RNLI do good work but they won't stop sending me raffle tickets

I don't donate each month to Fertility Network and Tommys.

Not NSPCC - they defended a member of their staff who filmed himself wanking in fetish gear at work.

Not Macmillan - they only fund posts for 2 years but the post has to be branded Macmillan forever- so they person who helps you is funded by the NHS while Macmillan get the credit.

Not Oxfam - their staff sexually abused women in the developing world on a huge scale.

Actually probably not any big national charities, they all spend a lot of money keeping themselves in existence rather than on the cause. Obviously you need to spend on staff wages etc but do they all need to spend £100k a year renting big London offices these days when remote working is so simple? I support a local animal charity, a local womens charity and another small animal charity.

I meant I do donate not don't!

RNLI - selfless volunteers, from their own statistics most shouts occur at the London station on the Thames, i live in london. I think I read somewhere that they didnt want to be centrally funded because of the inevitable bureaucracy.
Whizzkids - provide motorised wheelchairs for children
Wateraid - because clean water is a basic human right
RSPB - protect, and advocate for, habitats and wildlife here in the UK, and abroad,

Another vote for Medicins sans Frontieres. They provide doctors and medical care all over the world in conflict zones and disaster zones.

Local mountain rescue (ad hoc)
Local hospice/air ambulance shops - donations of things and buy books
RNLI

2wish -they help bereaved parents. Also they find a quiet room on children's wards for newly bereaved parents to sit in when their child has just died.

contact (used to be contact a family)

Caudwell children

family fund

all help families with children with special needs

smile train - helps fund operations for children with cleft lip/palate.

Mine is a local autism charity. In our town, one Mum set up an autism support charity about 20 years ago now and it has grown into the most incredible place. It now has professionals like speech and language therapists and drama teachers employed full time there and helps autistic children up to 18yrs.

All levels. So much support for parents - they put on courses for parents. Organise trips and breaks for the kids.

My son is 26 now so he left 8 years ago. They helped him into supported employment and gave him a teen social life.

I don't know if any thing as good as that exists anywhere else in the whole of the UK tbh! (I am in Scotland)

I think a lot of towns have cafes and kitchens staffed by autistic adults.

But - autism every time for me just as it is close to my heart on a personal level.

Beira's Place - a women's refuge for victims of sexual violence. It should go without saying that it's for women, but for some it's the only female-only place they can get this support from.

very small charities who don’t have big offices in London, treat their staff like crap and spend loads on advertising. (Rant prompted by friends who’ve had shocking experiences.)

I give to the smallest charity I know, the money goes a long way. (Mandy’s rescue a Guinea pig in Poole.)

Beira's Place is a private organisation, not a charity. It is entirely funded by JK Rowling and does not accept donations. There is no donation link on their website, and you should be cautious about using links on other websites. You might be donating to that website and not Beira's Place.

Guide Dogs for the Blind. It's hard to overstate how much difference they make to the independence of the service users.