Charity giving cutout

chris_aaaaa

A drawback of giving to charity is that they have you on their radar. I don't want the spam etc.

In the past I used a thing called the dove trust, which ended badly.

Is there a modern equivalent?

martinthebandit

Send them a cheque? Drop some cash into one of their shops?

Although if you feel you can’t trust a charity with your personal data why do you think that you can trust them to spend your money responsibly?

McKneff

Just give to local charities, food banks, homeless projects etc

Savvy_Sue

You can tell a charity what you do and don't want to hear from them, and the advent of the GDPR next year means that you have to specifically give them consent to contact you.

Giving through Virgin Money and Just Giving allows you to choose whether or not your details are passed on to the charity: I'm reasonably confident of that.

I am not sure what the options are on the other 'giving' sites, but there are several options. Take a look at the article on the main site.

chris_aaaaa

Thanks Sue, My donate seems best, if I trust them and the receiving charities not to put me on a suckers list.

I know Martinthebandit some are not to be trusted, that will have to come later in the course, my plan now was to put some money in an account and let my daughter distribute it.

Chris

LittleVoice

I knew someone years ago who would send his donations at Christmas. He sent cheques and a covering letter saying that he would send more the following year as long as they did not write to him in the meantime.
Seemed to work.


Now I would also send a Gift Aid form - so the charity could increase its income and I could reclaim any higher rate tax (difference).

Savvy_Sue

chris_aaaaa wrote: »

Thanks Sue, My donate seems best, if I trust them and the receiving charities not to put me on a suckers list.

that's one site I've not used, but having withheld consent to have my details passed on to charities I'm supporting through Virgin and JustGiving, there's been absolutely no problem.

p00hsticks

If you use CAF to deposit a sum you can giftaid it and then donate to individual charities anonymously

https://www.cafonline.org/

chris_aaaaa

ta, that seems the right sort of thing.