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Giving Week is here: donate funds to MNer-nominated organisations and MNHQ will match them!

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JustineMumsnet · 23/05/2014 16:00

Hello all

As you may remember, a wee while back we asked you to nominate your favourite charities and related organisations for the inaugural Mumsnet Giving Week. Well - the nominations are in, the shortlist has been drawn up and Mumsnet Giving week starts here!

First, a thank you: you suggested an amazing selection of worthy organisations, and choosing just five was, as you can imagine, an astonishingly difficult task. In the end, though, we settled on the following:

Women's Aid
Free Cakes for Kids
Woolly Hugs
Haven House
PDA Society

As of now, the Yimby and Just Giving fundraising pages are ready to take your donations. And remember, we’ll be matching whatever money you raise, up to the combined total of £25k (we thought we’d better set some sort of limit in case one of you turns out to be fabulously wealthy and decides to drop a million quid - which would, of course, be amazing, but might leave us scrabbling around a bit come payday )

We’re mindful that most of you won’t be able to donate large amounts, of course - but small amounts are extremely welcome! And if you’d like to help out in other ways (we really don’t want anyone to feel bad about not being able to donate), we’d be very grateful for any noise you can make via Facebook, Twitter etc etc: the best place to link to to explain the whole project is here and the hashtag is #MumsnetGiving.

Thanks very much - here’s to raising lots of money for some brilliant causes.

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KateHMumsnet · 03/06/2014 11:40

Hi everyone,

We've noticed a few of you have had some issues with donating, thanks so much for alerting us to this. Here are some tips from JustGiving which may help:

-Check your browser settings. If the browser you are using disables external cookies, this may prevent JustGiving from communicating with your bank and authorising the donation

-Clear your cache or cookies

-Check the security settings on your computer, particularly if you're donating from a work computer, the security package may be preventing JustGiving from processing the donation

If this doesn’t work, please do give JustGiving’s help desk a ring – they’ll be able to walk you through the process and help you pledge, tackling any problems as and when they occur. Their telephone number is 0845 078 2063 (option 1) and they’re in the office between 9am – 6pm on weekdays, and until 5pm on weekends.

Thanks again all for the lovely donations!

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 03/06/2014 14:12

Hi All

It is stickied in active, it's just that we have a new system that rotates the stickies , so it won't always be at the top. But it's there. Promise. Do share away though!

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 04/06/2014 12:30

Hi All

Just to clarify. We match donations (big or small, and at any point, even if the total is less than £1k) up to a total of £25k for the whole Mumsnet Giving Week project.

This means if one charity raises £500 and another raises £10k we'd match both of those amounts, but if the total amount we'd need to contribute went past the £25k we'd stop at that point. .

Really hope that makes sense, essentially, for every penny donated to any charity we match it, up to a total pot of £25k.

And yes, only registered charities (Women's Aid and Haven House) can claim tax relief, the others are community projects so can't.

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 04/06/2014 13:00

And if any (or all) charities bust their targets, everyone can carry on giving and we'll carry on matching (up to that £25k point).

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 04/06/2014 13:45

Hi GermyElephant. That's how Yimby usually works as they are very project focussed at don't want to fund half a church roof or similar.

However Woolly Hugs and PDA are already at 90% of their target, and we've got a few more things planned over the week to encourage people to give (and or course please do share). We're also talking to Yimby about possible workarounds, but for now, would love to be positive and think all three will meet their targets.

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 04/06/2014 15:08

All charities can also keep their pages open after our 'week' to continue to raise funds. And obviously when we've match funded what's already there, they'll be much nearer target.

We've got an email going out to Mumsnet users any minute now, and I think that will really help people reach target. I know it's a bit confusing (I'm still a bit confused, and having been looking at this for weeks), but Yimby is on of the first platforms in UK at mo that allows giving to non-registered charities, and for most of these causes a target for a specific project makes lots of sense.

Phew and to Woolly Hugs for meeting target already.

MNHQ

DawnMumsnet · 08/06/2014 09:38

Hi MadonnaKebab

Are you still having trouble accessing Yimby?

It seems to be working fine for us. Hopefully it was just a temporary glitch.

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 08/06/2014 12:03

Hi All

The Yimby site seems to be up and running now. Last full day of fundraising so please do give anything you can - remember we'll double it and do share with others too.

Thanks so much for all the support (and cash) so far.

See you for the grand adding-up tomorrow.

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 09/06/2014 10:43

Hi there

Just to say it's 1030 now - totals are now in.

Women's Aid - £2,798.93
Free Cakes for Kids - £444
Woolly Hugs - £1,280
Haven House - £5,006.50
PDA Society - £1,773.00

Total - £11,302.43

Total, once matched by Mumsnet £22,604.86

Thank you so much to all who pledged. So kind of you and will mean so much to these charities. We'll keep you posted as the projects develop.

Anyone is free to still keep giving, but at this point we'll end the match funding.

Best

MNHQ

KatieMumsnet · 09/06/2014 11:04

Hi MoominAndMiniMoom, once we add our donation Free Cakes for Kids will be at £888, so need to find £112 to reach target. They can keep the page live for as long as they like, and we'll keep sharing, so hopefully they can get there pretty soon.

Having a target is the way Yimby work -as they're very project focussed and don't for eg want to fund half a church roof.

MNHQ

JustineMumsnet · 09/06/2014 11:58

Hiya,
Just to confirm we'll make up the cash to make sure Free Cakes for Kids reaches target and gets all the money that's been pledged.

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