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

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JustineMumsnet · 08/06/2015 12:18

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...

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RowanMumsnet · 09/06/2015 10:02

Hi Cozie - it is pinned in quite a few places. It's also on the 'sliders' that come across the bottom of the screen and annoy regular MNers Grin, and we've got a couple of other plans for making sure nobody can escape it. Unfortunately, as you say, stickies and sliders don't show on the app. (They will on the New App that's currently in production though.)

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RowanMumsnet · 10/06/2015 12:35

We are trying to make it as visible as poss! It is on the sliders - ouryve and WhoKnows, how do you view MN (ie on mobile, desktop or app?) Unfortunately sliders and stickies don't show on the app because we can't update the app code to include new innovations...

If you've got any ideas about how to make it more visible for the average MN user, do please let us know. We could start a thread about it in relevant boards (ie SN for IPSEA and SWAN UK?) but for those who don't 'see' stickies the thread would need to be bumped quite a lot

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RowanMumsnet · 11/06/2015 11:17

Hello

Just a quick one to point out that there are a few inaccuracies in that blog post. The Abortion Support Network didn't write our quote for the Telegraph - we did; and we didn't write their JustGiving page (or delete anything from it) - they did.

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RowanMumsnet · 11/06/2015 12:04

Please do spread the word Hermione - would be great to get them up to their target, if not beyond

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JustineMumsnet · 11/06/2015 12:37

@timetosmile

pjsaunders.blogspot.com

There's on interesting post here about potentially illegal activity by the Abortion Support Network, worth a read I think.

The moral or other arguments surrounding abortion/pro-life/pro-choice aside, is anyone from MNHQ around to discuss the points being made here and elsewhere in the media today?

Here's an update we've posted in response to the Telegraph's reporting of our backing of this charity fyi.

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RowanMumsnet · 12/06/2015 15:22

@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 Flowers

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RowanMumsnet · 12/06/2015 16:19

@cozietoesie

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

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

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RowanMumsnet · 15/06/2015 09:29

@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.

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JustineMumsnet · 15/06/2015 14:33

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.

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