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...

[RowanMumsnet]

@PolterGoose

MNHQ I've already raised it but why hasn't the IPSEA guest post been stickied on the SN boards (and maybe education boards too)?

Really sorry about this Polter - it was an oversight.

[JustineMumsnet]

So here are the final scores on the doors re amounts raised:

Count the Kicks: £8,474.86
Swan UK: £7,146.43
Abortion Support Network: £5,453.88
Rape Crisis England & Wales: £3,645.00
IPSEA: £2,201.00

Which makes a grand total of £26,921.17 to which MNHQ is match funding to 25k so the total collectively raised is £51,921.17 - which completely smashes last year's total.

Thanks everyone who contributed. It's great to be able to help these fabulous causes.

[cozietoesie]

Well done everybody - not forgetting those people who might not have been in a position to donate but sent positive vibes to the fundraising. A great combined effort.

And thanks to MNHQ for the very generous funding contribution and for organising Giving Week.



(Sorry about the biscuit and gin fund though. )

[RitaFairenough]

BRILLIANT !

Thank you MNHQ

[SayThisOnlyOnce]

Wonderful! Thanks MNHQ

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

Ahh, this is so heart-warming
Well done everyone and thanks MNHQ
Great we reached the 50k + this year, that's amazing

Hope I contributed something towards those positive vibes you kindly mentioned cozietoesie x

[BIWI]

That's absolutely fantastic, Justine. Sorry that we haven't left you any money for gin

And really good that there hasn't been any snarking about it this year

[trackrBird]

Thank you MNHQ :)

[cozietoesie]

People might like to read this guest post which gives the thoughts of representatives from the charities involved in Giving Week. (It's been emailed to MNers today.)

[BIWI]

Thanks for posting that, cozie

[GloGirl]

Bravo MNHQ