Which Charity

nicolarichard

I have been looking at various sites and want to 'buy a goat' or similar. I would like to give to a charity who spend the money donated, rather than using a high percentage for admin fees etc, can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance

Milarky

Go to the Charity Commission's website and just look around there. I am sometimes guided by how 'little' a charity declares in its accounts. If a charity is spending more than £10 million a year (say) do they need your support as much a one spending £500,000? A Charity which has seen quite a rapid increase in spending might be a better home for a one-off donation than one which demonstrates 'stability' in expenditure. Give widely to different causes - spread it around and don't feel the need to be 'loyal' either. The Charities Aid Foundation is and excellent organisation as you can have an account with them which you can fund 'as and when' and use to direct donations of all sizes to charities as quickly as it takes to reply to this post. And the best bit is that any giving you make can be strictly anonymous (They can't write to thank you if they don't know who you are!)

nicolarichard

thanks for that - i will take a look now ...

GiveItBack

of course a charity that spends 500,000 might have far higher admin costs than one spending 50,000,000, as a percentage, but then unless the admin costs are over a third, then I wouldn't really be remotely worried about them.

lamb7994

Hi

Help The aged also sell "virtual Gifts" : Cows "n" Things

Intelligent giving website is quite good at comparing charities:

intelligent giving


James