At this extravagent time of year I've just had a major pang of guilt so clicked on the World Vision link and bought...

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A meal for 70 children, 20 chicks, a football, and train a health worker. It's less than I spent on Champagne last Wednesday.

And I feel slightly guilty that I don't do more really. I've made the odd donation to Womens Aid after linking to them here sometimes.

So: do you make charitable donations all year? If so, who to? How do you decide? And, if you can bear to tell me, how much? (percentage of net income if you don't want to give figures)

Also, do you have any other views on charities in general?

i just throw a few quid when i can afford it into charity boxes [childrens hospitals,cancer things,sn,anything child related really] and do the sponsored womens miny marathon every year.not much when you see all the people that need helpi think i dont have very much then i see ads of starving babies and i realise how much i really have would love to help everyone of them but cant its depressing

oh give about five quid a week[all i can spare]and raise about 400 each year doing the marathon,the marathon is for a cancer patient hospice,i unfortunatly have had a few members of my family cared for in the place so its important to me.also do trick or treat for temple street,its raising money each halloween for a child hospital my son got great care in

i do regular payments to charities i really believe in, who i think do good stuff. i wish i t was more, but im shite at budgeting ... need to work on that.

i also choose ones with no religious angle as i think at worst they could be like that samaritans purse lot and at best, id rather all their energies went into actually helping rather than preaching iyswim.

sos childrens villages, everychild, plan international, medecine SF, water aid, a peace organisation (name escapes me), mercy ships.

all those DDs total a fair bit tbh, but we dont go without and it should be more really. its not really 'my' money to give away tho, really. dp doesnt say that, tells me the opposite, but still. i didnt earn it.

Yes!

Medican sans frontiers and Childline get good monthly sponsorship

Sponsor a guidedog for the blind and a granny in the developing world.

I also do as much as I possibly can in one off payments/gifts for those that are just having a hard time of things for one reason or another. But at an individual level rather than as a charity IYSWIM.

oh yeah, i did that 5k run for breast cancer this year which raised about 400.