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Charity Grants/Donations/HELP!!
Hi I am raising money for The Childrens Hospital Charity which is based in Sheffield (Reg charity no: 505002) by doing a bike ride from London to Paris in April 2013 (300 miles in 4 days). I have to raise quite a bit of sponsorship and have written to lots of companies but struggling to get anywhere with them. Does anyone…
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Fundraising for Children in Need
Hi everyone, The company I work for (plus a few other companies which neighbour our office) are hoping to raise at least £5000 for Children in Need by undertaking a 466 mile cycle on an exercise bike! This will be done in Belfast and 466 miles is the approximate distance to London (according to one of the organisers.) If…
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Freecycle etc.
Not sure where to put this post but need to have a rant. I put some thngs on Freecycle and had a lot of interest. I decided to go with the first people who seemed keen. Promised to collect the following day at a certain time. I stayed in for them. They didn't show. I had already told people it had gone. Grrrrr! Why do…
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Charity Food Banks
i have recently been reading shocking facts about food poverty,where many people in our so called caring society are unable to feed themselves and their families after paying their rent/utility and other incidental bills. charity food banks are now a well established feature of life for many of the 13 million of us who are…
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Support families with disabled kids
Hey folks, The disability charity Scope is running a new campaign called Keep Us Close, to make sure the Government provides good local services for disabled children and their families. At the moment lots of families can't get the right support they need (school, respite care, childcare etc) in their local area and…
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cat rescue needs urgent help
please would you consider making a donation to my local cat rescue https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aller...0767329?ref=ts http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.u...p_plea/?ref=nt they are currently snowed under with abandoned cats and their vets bills are sky high and their food supplys very low...... if you can help please pm…
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Cataract charity
Has anyone any experience of finding a charity helping people who need cataract surgery. I want to donate in British pounds. Thank you
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Urgent, pet lovers NOW EXTENDED TO MID OCTOBER!
NOW EXTENDED TO MID OCTOBER - GET CLICKING PLEASE http://www.facebook.com/Hillendale Coryn Shields of Rochdale Dog Rescue - which saves dogs from death row has sent the following email, please help, it costs zilcho "Hillendale have said that for every new like that they get on their page they will donate 10p to RDR, up to…
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Subscribe to Lidl email's & they will donate £1 to CLIC Sargeant
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Braiden-Lee Prescott - This little lad needs help.
Saw this little chap on local Tv if you have a few spare pounds to help him on his way http://www.justgiving.com/Braiden-Lee Braiden-Lee Prescott has stage 4 neuroblastoma. Three year old Braiden-Lee and his family need to travel to the United States before Christmas 2012 so that he can receive the Children’s Oncology…
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Urgent help needed for Charity Raffle
Hi I'm part of a team and were are doing a Raffle for Birmingham Children's hospital and we are really struggling for prizes. We have funded a big prize that we've been able to get cheap, but are really apprehensive spending more cash, in case we don't make the money back. The raffle is advertised to take place in the end…
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i wanna donate to charity using sms
Hi i hav lots of easy mobile /o2 sms & would like to give some of my credit to charity you know the kind of thing where you text a number & give £1 or something similar any ideas?
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Harvest festival
Work are collecting food for local poor elderly people. I want to contribute and I have several Asda and smartprice branded food items. The thing is a few of my colleagues are very brand concious so I know there will be comments. Is it disrespectful for me to donate these items? Bearing in mind at home we only eat/can…
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World Vision wants every child to know freedom from fear
40,000+ WORLD VISION colleagues throughout the world have today been praying that every child knows freedom from fear - that is our priority, our passion, our prayer. For every child to know life in all its fullness; that we have the will to make it so. May our hearts continue to be broken by the things that break God's…
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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…
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Raising money for overseas cause
I want to raise money for a cause in the US. It is not a charity, but definitely non-profit. I intend to do this via a website with donations made to PayPal. Donations are likely to come from the US, UK and Europe. PayPal will operate the account in US dollars. So far, so good! But, they need a bank account, and I need a…
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Am i bad?
When you see the adverts for starving children in 3rd world countries i sympathise but i can watch it all,yet when the ads for animal cruelty come on i have to turn it over and cannot watch it,is this wrong?
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Heritage Walking Trail - Web Based System
I wonder if anyone can help point me in the right direction. We are a small community based charity who want to apply for a heritage grant to inform and tell people about the locality. To do this we are seeking funds to create a display board and a sort of QR code system which would allow people to scan the sign and…
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Uncief soccer aid live now... Please donate!!
Hi all The unicef soccer aid charity match is on now on ITV. England vs Rest of the World Please enjoy the match and dont forget to donate. For every pound you donate, the UK Government will match this. That means if you text to give £5, £10 will be donated to UNICEF to help save children's lives. Please give what you can.…
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Charities that take leftover foreign currency
I used to do a lot of international travel for a former employer and as a consequence I have a lot of very low amounts of various European (as in pre-Euro) and American coins which I want to give to a charity. I doubt there is £10 altogether to be honest. As it seems unlikely I will be getting on a Virgin flight any time…
