Favourite good causes

[Tim Lund]

What are yours? Just looking through my bank statements, mine are

1. Medecins Sans Frontieres
2. Macmillan Nurses
3. Wikipedia Foundation

[monkeyarms]

Friends of the Earth
Good buskers (a rarity)

[Robin Orton]

Looking through my bank statement, mine is the London Borough of Lewisham. (They do wonderful work running libraries and so on.)

[Maria]

The Labour Party
The Big Issue
Plan UK

[mouse]

The British Red Cross
Water aid
Millies story.

[Eagle]

Cancer research
St Christopher's Hospice
British Legion.

[Pally]

Street children
Water Aid
St Christopher's Hospice

[I hammer]

1) the Conservative party,
2) st Christopher's hospice
3)
British legion

[leenewham]

I'm interested, how is a political party a good cause?
The conservatives got over 20 million, what did they spend it on?
Anyway, we have a few good causes.

As an individual:
• Save the Children
• Greenpeace
• Shelter

Plus charitable donations to Scope and Cancer research.

With our company:
• Kiva (Microloans to help people help themselves) is the big one, so far we have helped 71 people.
• We have donated work for free to a number of other good causes locally and various charities.
• We partner with a good cause at Christmas. Oxfam are wonderful, as are The Passage, a brilliant homeless charity (who we are working with at the moment).

[simon]

Retired Greyhound Trust
Ovarian Cancer Action
999 Club (South East London Homelessness charity)

These don't appear in my bank statements as I support each of them in different ways.

I sponsor two kennels at RGT Croftview on an annual basis, make a donation when I retire a racer or home an ex racer, and I put some money in a bucket at the track.

I've not given OCA any money yet, but I am doing a sponsored five day cycle ride from Glasgow to London via Oxford next summer. Please PM if you would like to sponsor me

If you buy a Pret A Manger sandwich with a 999 Club sticker on it, Pret will donate 50p to the charity. I'm publicising that initiative (and eating their sandwiches at lunchtime) at work. I'm also organising an odd sock collection as part of their SOX Appeal: http://999club.org/sox-appeal/

[JRobinson]

Shelter
Red Cross
Sydenham and Forest Hill Youth Forum

[interesting that most people who have posted here, like myself, have only three charities listed. That could be that we're only supporting three charities through DD that appear on our bank statements, it could be that 'humans' only cope with things in threes, or that it was a choice only to type in the top three...? - still interesting]

[Tim Lund]

I started with three because I thought claiming credit for some long list of the occasional donations to causes someone asks you to sponsor would be a bit presumptuous.

I referred to my bank statements part as a way to be objective, but also because it would be hard, and invidious, to list various local good causes which get my time, rather than money, for example Friends of Dacres Wood, Friends of Albion Millennium Green, and few others for which I host and help with web sites.

And then, of course, there's the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, which has been chosen as one of the Charities for the Times Christmas Appeal, and since I'm now on the books of a PR company as someone who can be called on to encourage fellow gardeners to do the right thing by hedgehogs, I due to be interviewed and photographed for this cause tomorrow. But no money will be involved.

I've also been asked to make a donation to Riding for the Disabled, since tomorrow I'm going to be collecting a whole lot of rotted horse manure from their stables in Mottingham, which of course I will.

But Medecins sans Frontieres is still my No. 1.

And yes, Jon, humans do seem to like doing things in threes. No idea why.

[Robin Orton]

And yes, Jon, humans do seem to like doing things in threes. No idea why.

Because it unconsciously reflects the Trinitarian nature of God?

[Tim Lund]

And yes, Jon, humans do seem to like doing things in threes. No idea why.

Because it unconsciously reflects the Trinitarian nature of God?

Or vice versa?

[stuart]

1. Wheels for Wellbeing Cycling for the disabled @ Herne Velodrome
2. National Deaf Children's Society Currently PIP'd off with government
3. Water-Aid Saving lives with clean water and sanitation

As I am not limited by faith can I add a fourth? It has to be Liberty. I trust them more than any political party to safeguard my, and everybody else's, freedom and happiness. I would have included MSF except someone beat me to it!

Stuart

[Robin Orton]

And yes, Jon, humans do seem to like doing things in threes. No idea why.

Because it unconsciously reflects the Trinitarian nature of God?

Or vice versa?

Who knows?

[I hammer]

[quote="leenewham"]I'm interested, how is a political party a good cause?
The conservatives got over 20 million, what did they spend it on?


My reference to the Conservative party, was of course a sarcastic opposing view to Maria's post
Mentioning the good ole Labour party.

Not too difficult to have spotted IMHO.

[leenewham]

Sorry I Hammer, with the likes of Donald Trump, Carson, Fox News, Eagle and the Daily Mail, I can't tell satire from reality these days!

[I hammer]

Ooh, there you go again.....

[Tim Lund]

OK. Perhaps I should not have responded to Robin as I did, but let's keep this friendly.

FWIW, I think it's perfectly reasonable to someone to see a political party as a good cause.