Charity Wishlist 15 September 2009 at 6:22PM in Charities 28 replies 4.4K views

hannahO_2

Hi,

Now that Christmas is fast approaching, :eek: I wondered what's on charity's wishlist. If you run a charity or belong to a charity and know what's needed, please list it here. You never know someone might contact you and donate that very thing.

So please list Charity Name and what's needed e.g. a Van, cooker, website and money/funds (of course but how much for what?) etc

fengirl_2

Here is my wishlist for some of the organisations I am currently helping:
1. Lots of wool for a group of older Sikh ladies who knit for Oxfam and Teddies for Tragedies.
2. £30,000 for a benefits advice service in a deprived area.
3. £5,000 for help with employment for a Somali group.
4. £50,000 for a family centre in a deprived area.
5. £9000 to refurbish showers in a boxing gym which works with disaffected young people.
6. £10,000 to update a resource centre for blind people.
7. £5000 to run a lunch club for Polish elders.
8. £5000 for outings for a group of people affected by strokes.
9. £30,000 for a development worker to develop projects in a community centre in an ex mining area
10. £5000 for music decks for a mobile recording studio working with young people who would otherwise hang around the street.

And for me:
1. For the 10 Somali groups in the city in which I work to come to me and say, 'Fen, you are right - please help us to join together and form one organisation.'
2. For the Compact to be given a statutory basis.

Edinburghlass_2

While its a nice idea, all posts on this board must follow the rules of the board which means giving the Charity website and registered number.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=180867

This means anyone donating either money or gifts know that it is going to a genuine charity.

vikki_louise

hannahO wrote: »

Hi,

Now that Christmas is fast approaching, I wondered what's on charity's wish list. If you run a charity or belong to a charity and know what's needed, please list it here. You never know someone might contact you and donate that very thing.

So please list Charity Name and what's needed e.g. a Van, cooker, website and money/funds (of course but how much for what?) etc

What a fantastic idea. I run Post Pals www.postpals.co.uk which brightens the lives of seriously ill children in the UK, you can read an article about what we do here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3673782.stm

Our wish list

• stamps- 2nd class and 2nd class large although any stamp is a big help
• for people to log onto our site and send a card, letter, gift or email
• craft kits suitable for kids or teens
• anything that can be sent to children or teenagers including unwanted gifts
• jiffy bags and envelopes
• printer ink (I will check to see which type we need and edit it into this post)
• Around 70 pens, I'm doing 2 talks and want to get the people attending writing cards to the kids during it so need a pen for each person
• Christmas cards
• Sympathy cards- non religious and suitable for parents who have lost a child
• Sensory things, quite a few of the children we support have autism or developmental delays, sensory things tend to be out of our budget.
• Some of these, so far we have only been able to send them to 3 kids but we have more who would benefit http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/3469698/Underwater-Light-Show/Product.html
• Craft robo - ok I know this one is unlikely but we would love to have one. We could make card for the kids in shapes of their name, favourite things, make 3d model kits for the older ones and SO much more! We could also self things like die cuts made with it to our volunteers to raise funds to send more post
• Elves- we do a shoe box style scheme at Christmas for seriously ill children and their siblings. Details on our website in the next week or two
• Reindeer- people who are assigned seriously ill child or their siblings and send 9 cards in December, one from each of the reindeer. Details on our website in the next week or two
• For people to add us to their Facebook. Our name on there is "Post Pals"
• For people to tell others about us and ask them to log onto www.postpals.co.uk and send a smile

Thank you!!

Our website is www.postpals.co.uk email is [EMAIL="info@postpals.co.uk"][email protected][/EMAIL] and address is Post Pals, PO Box 278, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT23 4WN

pocket_dragon_princess

We are The Anthony Booth Trust registered charity 1123378
www.aplasticanaemia.co.uk
Our wish list would be a van to collect and deliver much needed fundraising items
A gym mat for our charity bouncy castle
New unused gifts to take to the hospital xmas day
100 lanyards
Stamps to post letters
Money for our clean room project at The Nottingham City Hospital (more info on web site)
People organising there own fundraising project for us

shezmit

Our Organisation PREEMIESUK is in need of

Stamps
knitting wool
ribbon
Buttons

As all these help us to carry on with what we do and send parcels of knitted goods to Special care baby units throughout the UK

ktflosspot

Hi All
thanks for the thread hannah0 what a great idea.

CKUK (Common Knowledge)
Charity Nos: SC036733
www.ckuk.org.uk

We are in need of small mens/womens hair/body care samples ( like the ones stuck in magazines)
Clothes / bags / accessories ( even just to loan ) for a man & woman photoshoot
Prizes for magazine competitions.

CK Pose is our newest venture .
It is a project celebrating diversity and providing positive images using models with learning difficulties.
Images in magazines and the media do not celebrate the diversity of our population so It will try to change this.

If anyone can help or point me in the right direction to ask for help I would be more than grateful
Thank you
Colette

sams247

going to bump this as it seems such a good idea, yet few charities have joined in..........

crazy_girl

http://www.streetwise2000.org.uk/

The registered number is: 1094449

At the min I am trying to get together the following for an event next year:

Books
Paper & pens
Flip chart
Raffle prizes

borders_dude

crazy_girl wrote: »

http://www.streetwise2000.org.uk/

The registered number is: 1094449

At the min I am trying to get together the following for an event next year:

Books
Paper & pens
Flip chart
Raffle prizes

Im looking at the team picture on your website. Are you in the picture crazy_girl ?

crazy_girl

borders_dude wrote: »

Im looking at the team picture on your website. Are you in the picture crazy_girl ?

I'm not one of the officers as I don't work FT for the charity but I think I turn up in a few of the drama pictures as I teach the drama class. I could be in other areas too as I'm a trustee and fundraiser too.