OMO: Which Charity?

[-Ralph-]

I stopped sending xmas cards a few years ago. Everybody who knows me already knows I wish them a Merry Xmas and a happy new year, they dont need little card through the door to remind them.

It's not an inconsiderable cost, the trip to the post office alone is usually upwards of 40 quid, plus the cost of buying the cards.

Instead I donate the money to charity. In previous years I've chosen charities such as NSPCC and UNICEF (some of the stories Euan & Charley publicised on LWD/LWR got my throat).

This year though I'd like to give to a small local charity, where less of the money gets sucked up in overheads. I'm not really sure who to choose, so thought I'd throw it open to the org.

My pre-requisite is it must be a human charity. As much as I love animals, they are still animals, I don't value them over humans, and many of thier problems can be quickly and humanely solved with a rifle or an injection.

I've done my bit for funding medical research this year too.

Help the Heroes etc, is not my bag, deserving cause, but they are in the main adults who are not incapable of helping themselves.

So what charities have you come across in your local area that do something really worthwhile, and could really do with the money?

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[Spank86]

Air ambulance.

[Bibio]

easy. get Lance drunk fund.

just deposit the £40 behind the bar at the halfway house or black bull in edinburgh for this saturday and i promise it will go to good use.

[punyXpress]

Whichever you choose, make sure you tick the box to get the tax back!

[-Ralph-]

Air ambulance is a good one. Lance, I'll donate a pint or two to that fund next time I'm up there. I keep threatening to invade KG on the weekend of one of the SV Ecosse rideouts.

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[Icanopit]

Air Ambulance, we now have a child specific one for the central region based in Leicester which covers our region.

John

[Bri w]

After my ride in the Air Ambulance a few months back they now get money off me every week. Hopefully I'll have paid for my ride before I snuff it.

[-Ralph-]

Thanks John. I'll google and if unsuccessful I'll ask if you can post a link. It doesn't have to be a childrens charity BTW, elderly, sick, whatever. For instance if it does end up being air ambulance, I'd rather it was the one that did more flights, than related to the type of patient they cater for.

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[Specialone]

Air ambulance is what id vote for but my hallway fund is a registered charity so i would accept and welcome donations for that.

[Amadeus]

I donate to a number of causes but at this time of year I usually donate to charities for the elderly. You could find a local old peoples home, walk in and give them some cash.

[-Ralph-]

Bri, just reading the DLRAA website, they need a £1400 donation to cover the cost of one rescue mission.

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[-Ralph-]

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[Bri w]

Bri, just reading the DLRAA website, they need a £1400 donation to cover the cost of one rescue mission.

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Only £1200 to go then.

[Littlepeahead]

Headway. They give support to those who have suffered a brain injury or their carers. Anyone from people like Chris8886 and his memory problems to a 33 year old stroke sufferer who needed his house adapted so he didn't have to go into a nursing home. The chap whose wife had a fall down the stairs and hit her head leaving her in need of constant care and he just needed someone to care for her while he shops for groceries. They help all sorts of people. Not medical research, but vital support.

[yorkie_chris]

Bri, just reading the DLRAA website, they need a £1400 donation to cover the cost of one rescue mission.

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Given the hilarious maintenance cost of helicopters, fuel etc and crew I'm surprised it's that cheap actually.

If it was me I'd be splitting it between Parkinsons UK, RNLI, the yorkshire air ambulance and maybe water aid or my mate's parish in South America.

[-Ralph-]

OK, Headway looks interesting, thanks LPH.

Any more ideas?

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[Dicky Ticker]

The £40 or so that I would spend on cards gets split between the air ambu[lance] no not you,and the childrens hospice.Our society also takes presents to the hospice and it brings a lump to my throat when you see such young kids who have such a short futures ahead of them.

[EssexDave]

I'd vote air ambulance all day long.

[chris8886]

Headway. They give support to those who have suffered a brain injury or their carers. Anyone from people like Chris8886 and his memory problems to a 33 year old stroke sufferer who needed his house adapted so he didn't have to go into a nursing home. The chap whose wife had a fall down the stairs and hit her head leaving her in need of constant care and he just needed someone to care for her while he shops for groceries. They help all sorts of people. Not medical research, but vital support.

OK, Headway looks interesting, thanks LPH.

Any more ideas?

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i was just gonna say headway to you when i saw this post and she's right, i've been a user of their services for nearly 2 years now and they have always been fantastic to me. plus you can make it a more local donation by the fact that you'll be able to make your donation to headway northamptonshire i would think. as the services that help me are called headway hertfordshire, so i think it's done by coounty.

[Icanopit]

Perhaps another good cause to consider, one of our own members "Talan" good works with motorcyclists !!!!
www.tbex.co.uk or/and www.thebikeexperience.co.uk

[daveyrach]

Ralph, have you considered someone like The NDCS, I have a deaf son and I know first hand hand how services for deaf children (and adults) are being impacted by government cuts and the NDCS is who they turn to for help.

Take Reading where I live, we had 2 schools with units for deaf children (one primary and one secondary) funding for both has been stopped so now there is no deaf provision in Reading at all, my son has to travel to Newbury by taxi on a daily basis to attend Mary Hare School for the deaf, we had to fight the council for funding as they initially would have sent him to a mainstream school where he would have been 'lost in the system'

Also if you don't want to donate to the NDCS there will be a local branch you can donate to, my local branch is RDCS (Reading Deaf Children's Society)