It’s Giving Week 2015! Click here to raise money for MNers’ favourite charities

[JustineMumsnet]

Hi all,

Well we’re delighted to say that today marks the start of Mumsnet Giving Week 2015 in partnership with Just Giving, when we ask you to donate as much as you can to five charities nominated by MNers - and MNHQ matchfunds the total (up to a maximum of £25k, just in case one of you turns out to be a billionaire).

We asked you to nominate on this thread (a rather tear-inducing read in itself tbh) and we’ve whittled it down to these five causes:

Abortion Support Network
Count the Kicks
SWAN UK
Rape Crisis England and Wales
IPSEA

You can find out more about what they do here.

So - what we need you to do now (please) is:

Donate! Remember - only donations via the dedicated pages on JustGiving listed above will be included in Giving Week totals and match funded by MNHQ.
Tell ALL your family and friends - donations don’t have to be from MNers, it all counts! (So long as it’s via the JustGiving pages).
Shout about Giving Week on Twitter and Facebook - hashtag #MNGiving; if you follow us on Twitter @MumsnetTowers and like us on Facebook, you can RT or share our posts there.

If you need further motivation, there’s this from Knotty and Pistey from Woolly Hugs, which was one of last year’s organisations:

‘We received £2391.18 - an extraordinary amount for us. If someone donates £1 we are thrilled, so it was a real game-changer. It has helped to secure our position, which feels FABULOUS. We have been given time, freedom and space to think about taking Woolly Hugs forward, rather than thinking about where the next fiver will come from. We’ve always been ambitious for Woolly Hugs in our hearts, but the funds are helping us to BE ambitious.’

We raised around £23k last year - let’s smash that total this year, eh? We don’t want to have to spend our £25k on biscuits and gin...

Good idea - especially for the last full 24 hours. After all, we have to save MNHQ from themselves. (The gin money. )

@EcclefechanTart

Couldn't this go on Discussions of the Day? I've inly just found it and I'm sure lots of other people haven't seen it either. It's especially hard on the phone.

Thanks - we've added it now.

Here are the totals as they stood this morning - last few days to donate! And thanks so much for what you've done so far; with two-and-a-bit days to go we've already beaten last year's total

I think those totals are still going up, Rowan - sorry about the Gin and Biscuit Fund and all.

Agreed with PP - only noticed this until today :(

Donated now!

@cozietoesie

I think those totals are still going up, Rowan - sorry about the Gin and Biscuit Fund and all.

yeah, looks like we're going to be down to our last few gallons/tonnes

I've braved aibu to try and get support for Rape Crisis but my thread has ony got tumbleweed so far.

It looks as if Rape Crisis and IPSEA are improving a bit.

How do we find out the totals now please?

I don't think there's been a new all-at-a-glance update but if you click on the charity links in Justine's OP, you can see them individually by charity.

Evening bump

ASN and SWAN seem to have met their targets. Count The Kicks, Rape Crisis and IPSEA have not - yet. (But the appeal still has 24 hours to go.)

Glad to get my donation in on time.

Really hoping those charities who are not quite there yet meet their target.

Just done my donations - all really great causes. Well done MN - giving week is a great idea.

Can someone official from mumsnet pop onto the Facebook page discussion on ASN? It's getting out of control and nasty :-(

Rape Crisis and IPSEA have still to meet their targets but the other three are now all over them if I've read the pages correctly.

Two charities still to reach their targets . . .

IPSEA in particular seem to be the ones who need a hand.

I don't know, Polter - but it will be what it will be. (Although I'm still hoping for a little push in the last two hours for the last two on the list.)

I've been plugging away for IPSEA on my FB page. It's easy to forget, when they are so important to you, that actually they are very small and unknown outside a very small population of parents. I've found very often that RL friends of DCs with SNs haven't heard of them or SOSSEN, whereas for me they have been absolutely invaluable.

Well done for that plugging WhoKnows.