General Chat

Maggies Cancer Care Centres.

Janey I re-read your post and realised that. sorry.
Bless her for wanting to re-route money to others and good of her for standing up and saying so.

Heh, Uzzi -- I meant she was the one who could stand up and say to the assembled snooty women: No, I don't want all our funds going to the cancer centre (which they were doing really for the social status it gave them, that giving to charities for people in need in the community just doesn't get).

She wanted the money to help people in need, and as a cancer patient at the time, talking about not giving all the money to the cancer centre, she had the "moral authority" that they couldn't say no to. ;)

Help For Heroes, Dogs Trust, St Giles Hospice, Gt Ormond Street Hospital and Staffordshire Air Ambulance get my spare pennies on a regular basis

lol McAnne most of us do ..just by saying we don't want this stuff take it to the charity shop !

I'm always donating to RSPCA - money and/or items to use/sell

I support Kent Air Ambluance by way of their weekly lottery - always put stuff out for British Heart Foundation in their bags, along with Help the Aged - I take stuff to my local MacMillan shop and always give or buy in Cancer Research.......


*gosh i do more than i realised lol*

Muffy good for you, I don't know your baby charity but then why should I ? thats what it's all about

Leith lass

All people who know me don't get cards but at that time of year I spend the money on biscuits for the local dogs home, it isn't much but even a 5lkilo gram bag is good for them . I work 20c a card so it all goes to the mutts (thats without postage or personal cards)

Janey I don't think it's an illness that allows the 80pluses the right to say what ever they want, just the fact they are 80+ and our Mums,. I know I allow mine more than most people. Even being the 1st to run her down at times.I am the one to protect .I am also the 1st to admit how much good she has done in the last 15+yrs

We have a local charity shop "Dogs For The Deaf" to which I donate unwanted clothes and furniture.The driver comes to collect the things I can't manage to get in myself.
I give to Breast Cancer, McMillan Cancer Care, and more, when they have collecting tins.

What I don't use, someone will always have a use for.
Sorry to say, I can't afford to donate to them all, but try to help out those I can.

I knew someone who didn't buy Xmas cards, but donated food to the cat & dog home instead. Good idea.

Give mainly to two charities.

Tommys the Baby Charity...and ..The Dogs Trust

Have been known to shove the odd pound in a box elsewhere but generally I stick to those two xx

Ah, mums. Mine's on the proverbial "fixed income" and hitting the big eight oh soon ... donates to I don't know how many things ... gets distressed by the interminable sad-eyed children / sad-eyed pets ads on TV ...

When she moved to small-town Ontario 10 years ago, she finally gave in and joined the IODE -- yes, the International Order of Daughters of the Empire. I think they used to have entrance requirements, pure English blood and all that, but they'll take just anybody now, in their death throes as they are. (Not that my mum wouldn't qualify!)

She can't knit anything but scarves and never learned how to crochet - it all skipped a generation in our family - so she always got to do the scut work at the bazaars and all. She's like that anyway. It ain't the glory, it's the guts.

Anyhow, what peeved her constantly was that they chose their charities for the glory. The giant oversized cheque going to the cancer wing at the local hospital, the picture of the hot-shots on the executive in the paper.

So when her branch did disband last year, of old age and no incomings, she was in mid-cancer treatment at that very cancer treatment centre. And she stood up and guilted them ever so nicely into splitting their remaining kitty in half, and giving the other half to the local women's shelter.

She had cancer. She could say anything she wanted. ;)

I know Rose I may scream and shout about her as a mother but that is the 1 thing I am proud of her for. She has been doing it now for over 10 yrs and I have asked her to stop as it is now too much for her without help ( 5yrs ago I helped her pack) but still she does it. She also pays to put 3 children through some form of schooling it's such a small amount.

Oh well done to your mum Uzzi! and how great that she managed to get Saga involved like that :)

Rose I have helped my mum pack stuff in boxes for the orphanges in Africa etc .. and it does tug at the emotional strings when they take glasses, prepacked syringes but mum asks for soaps, toothpastes, sanitary protection toys, aswell as the obvious clothes and such. She also requests wool, knitting needles,cloth and sewing impliments so they can be taught to make things.
One of the homes she goes to has mother and children where she requests all sorts of things from her friends.

All these boxes get carted out to where they need to be via Saga cruises who she convinced to carry them free and deliver direct.

Janey I do agree that some of the smaller charities do not reach such a proportion of the worlds problems, but I can't help but think that the world charities already have so much being given to them whilst the smaller, closer to home charities that can't afford to advertise get left out.

I am not knocking the large charities but I personally would give to smaller closer to home ones

water aid..

and the charity whose name I can't remember who sent me a request, it was for women who..oh here it is..
http://www.endfistula.org/q_a.htm

and for kids born with cleft palate in poor countries, the cost of a repair op is so little...

the list is endless...

Oxfam Canada, CARE, Save the Children, Unicef.

No matter how little or what problems some here may have, it's multiple times more and a fraction the problems that a huge segment of the world's population has.

That said, I do shop for the food bank bin when I grocery shop. ;)

I know what you mean Rose about odd charities, I actually used to collect for Odstock Hospital but nobody had ever heard of it. (not had I until my nephew got taken there admittedly) but they do get a lot of the forces in there. Their charity is to design things as I said, but also for computers so that they can teach the patients how to use and adapted computer. We just type they may need the pc to open/ lock doors turn lights on/off they may need to blow commands or speak them. Aswell as giving them a life away from the wheelchair they are in.

Gawd preaching again I am lol

I forgot the homeless even tho' at one time I was a person on the street.

how long have you got Uzzi? lol

Dogs Trust and Help for Heroes, as I already do.

But I would like to give some money to, well odd things and perhaps odd people, those who struggle on a daily basis but aren't 'seen' , the Carers, the elderly who live alone, individuals who have been 'knocked down' but keep getting up and struggling on, charities for the homeless also.

xx.