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Charities
Archives for November 2011
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Charity Raffle with great prizes
Check out this raffle, set up to raise money and awareness of the Joanne Bingley Memorial Foundation. A charity campaiging for better care and support after Joanne took her own life when suffering with postnatal depression. Her daughter was just 10 weeks old. Prizes haven't been announced officially yet, but I am told that…
Just been made Chief Fundraiser - HOW!?!
Hi Everyone, I have just been elected chief fundaiser for a society I joined at uni. The idea being to raise enough money to send a team of people over to Central America to build water wells and a school for a remote village. The problem is how do I even start to raise the £15 000 needed. I will have a team of people…
Movember.
For those of you who have not heard of this before, it is the men's version of 'Race for life' and is an annual fund-raising event aimed at promoting Prostrate Cancer awareness. The aim is for us blokes to grow a mo for the month of November and encourage people to donate. My 'MoSpace' can be found HERE Thank you in…
Send Ollie To St Louis - please help
We are trying to raise some interest in a song we have released that is raising money for a 3 year old boy with cerebal palsy. His main website can be found by googling Send Ollie To St Louis His family and friends are trying to raise enough money to pay for an operation in St. Louis, USA. to enable him to walk. The song…
Shopping Online This Christmas?
Did you know you could raise extra funds for MSRC for free just by shopping online this Xmas? http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseaction/show/pageid/2631
PAT pets
Why does a charity that should have the welfare of the animals in mind, insist of them being vaccinated every year? Even in the veterinary community it is considered unnecessary as it can be so detimental to the health and well-being of the animal. I can understand that kennels use it as a lazy way to cover themselves for…
Gift Aid v Payroll Giving?
Hi all, I am trying to promote donating to charities within the company. Just wondering whether you guys can shed some light on which method would be better. My understanding is that Payroll Giving is more tax efficient for higher rate taxpayers whilst Gift Aid is better for lower rate taxpayers? Any advise will be much…
Huge help needed please
Please delete, thank you
Expedition Kenya with Get Connected
Hi All, Now i`m not to sure if im allowed to post this on here, but i thought it was worth a go. The company i work for has been supporting Get Connected for as long as i can remember, and each year a select few get the opportunity to go on a once in a lifetime expedition and really give something back to people who really…
Food Bank / Food for Charity
I did a quick search but I couldn't find anything so I'm sorry if there's a smililar thread posted elsewhere. (Hopefully) I'm soon going to be moving house, plus we've just found out the OH is possibly Gluten and Wheat intolerant, and instead of throwing food away (as I refuse to give it to my utterly horrific neighbours)…
contact lenses
Does anyone know of any charities that accept donations of unused daily contact lenses? I have quite a few and I'm too tight to donate them back to the optician :o Thanks
Freebies for charities
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