Charities we have concerns about supporting

[Doyenne]

Last year the institute of fundraising have found what many of us could have told them and that's that women think more carefully about charities and give more often.

There used to be a long list of charities I would support: Oxfam, NSPCC, Shelter, Save the Children, Cancer Research, Shelter.

One by one I've removed them from my list

Save the Children was the realisation of the behaviour they had let Brendan Cox get away with.

Oxfam was aid workers sexually exploiting vulnerable women in Haiti

Amnesty International when I realised their stance on prostitution seemed to have moved 180 degrees

Cancer Research was when they removed the word women from cervical cancer info even whilst their research showed women at higher risk of not going for scans were women whose first language was not English.

NSPCC I'm watching to see if they will belately show leadership on the need for children to be allowed to assert boundaries

Shelter I was really sad to stop supporting when I realised how toxic stonewall had become to lesbians (Strong links between the two wrt trustees).

Children in need has become an absolute no with their support for mermaids and them stopping supporting sex specific refuges.

I'm trying to ensure I don't reduce my overall charitable giving but I fear that may be an unintended consequence of my greater scrutiny.

I wondered what changes/concerns other may have wrt charities

All of the above, and I'd add:

Amnesty when they asked Shon Faye to do the keynote speech at an event celebrating women - called Making Women History ... oops! Women Making History

Jo Cox Foundation when they chose to train middle aged trans women for theIr Women In Leadership Porgramme

I don't give to charities any more, I give to campaigns.

Ladybirds agree I was disappointed by the Jo Cox Foundation but the reality is I'd never donated to them, I have all the others

I still give to the NSPCC - can anyone link to what they've done/said?

Children In Need is obviously a no now, and Amnesty have been a no from me for years - ever since they defined that access to sex was a human right, and so they support legalisation of the sex trade or some such rubbish "Men have a human right to buy the bodies of women" is what it boils down to. Misogynistic twats.

medicine sans frontieres also had an abuse scandal. i'd love to know if there was an alternative unblemished charity doing similar work in war zones?

otherwise i have found very small charities working at home and abroad where i can be reasonably sure they are not being used as a cloak of legitimacy for abusive men.

I haven't given to any of those charities in years.

However I tend to stay medical, and still think Macmillan, local hospice and local air ambulance are worthy recipients.

I support hospices and animal charities about whom I am fairly certain there are no issues of concern.

I gave up on Children in Need years ago - some of the things they were giving money to didn't sit well with me at all.

I support some small local charities, but in the main, my choice is give my money to Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance. At least I know that they don't give a toss what someone identifies as, apart from "injured".

The big organisations can fuck right off until they put their own houses in order. Not a penny will I give to any of them.

Oh. I've just seen NSPCC didn't turn up to the webchat - is that it? MNetters asking too many awkward questions.

stillathing - not quite on a par with MSF, but I support this charity:

davidnottfoundation.com/

This man is nothing less than a hero.

I'm so glad you posted this, OP - did you read my mind?! I nearly started a thread on this exact subject yesterday.

I give lots of unwanted goods to my local Barnardo's (and am amazed by how much money they make from them - they email and tell me how much). Reading the Greens/AC threads over the weekend shocked and upset me so much that I looked up info on charities and who 'advised' them on diversity.

Seems Barnardo's is very keen to stress its strong links with Stonewall.....So i'm now looking for other charities to donate my stuff to. Maybe small local ones, although tbh I'm now getting paranoid about them too.

NSPCC used to buy mailing lists from Bounty and target new mums for direct debits. I don't know whether they still do or if GDPR had put an end to it.

Personally I support local women's refuge services directly and national women's healthcare/research causes.
I work in the sector so scrutinise them all pretty closely.

I don’t donate to anything any more unless it’s local and run by women for women and children.

I donate my time, money and goods locally where I can see who it’s going to help.

I’ve donated the money I would’ve given to charity to several pro women’s rights campaigns.

Organised charities are just attracting predators and paedophiles these days in the way organised religion did in the past. We KNOW that this type of person will gravitate towards vulnerable individuals and still we let it happen.

I'm massively naive when it comes to who to donate to, but just wondering if you are halting payments as a result of how they handled the situation or simply because the incident happened. I used to work for a fairly large business and saw how the press would twist stories sometimes 180deg so I would be cautious stopping supporting based solely on one incident?
On a separate not I Donte to Red Cross, is this a disaster too?

Zeugma I hadn't got as far as thinking about who I give unwanted goods to that's a very good point, I always have a bag being filled. I'll stick to the local hospice shops from now on.

I hadn't even thought about places like Barbados being linked to Stonewall. Stonewall is very disappointing, they did very good work once but I just can't accept their treatment of lesbians.

As well as Medecins sans Frontieres (which has long been my favourite charity), there's a similar charity called Doctors of the World. I don't know if any scandal has attached to them yet.

I still support WaterAid. V relevant to women's safety and access to toilets. Hope that one's still OK.

Is anyone keeping a spreadsheet going? Can you also add a column for companies /shops?

After NSPCC refused to do the webchat, they gave a statement saying that the NSPCC "doesn’t consider there to be specific child protection concerns in relation to trans-inclusive policies."

So that's my direct debit cancelled.

I give to donordirectaction.org/ as recommended by Julie Bindel. They channel money to women's causes around the world, including SPACE International, who she works with.

Also to a few local charities I have personal knowledge of.

I wonder if one of those lazy journalists that mooch about here will pick this up and run with it.

Can someone please fill me in on shelter? Their chuggers are next to my office at the moment.

I'm part of a small local charity and we really struggle to get funds so I'd say find a small one local to you and give to them rather than the biggies.

In recent years I've paid subs to Amnesty, Liberty, Labour, WEP and chucked donations a lot of those mainstream charities.

Have cancelled them all and instead I've totted up what I was giving each month and made donations to WPUK, FPFW and a number of crowdfunders whose work centres women and intend to continue this strategy.

CEO of Stonewall is a trustee for Shelter