Direct debit to a charity

[BrumJim]

I volunteer for my local branch of Cats Protection - I run the branch website and photograph most of the cats that come in looking for homes. Things I also do are bake cakes and make preserves for our fundraisers, provide raffle prizes and specials for our annual cat show and buy up any cat food I see on yellow sticker for the fosters.

Certainly as far as CP is concerned, if you want to help the cats directly, it is far better to donate money / food / skills to your local branch than through the channels at national level; other than neutering grants and publicity material, each branch is a financially independent entity.

Took a cat carrier and some spare cat food to a Cats Protection shop once. Being clever, I put the cat food in the cat carrier. I was only half way between the car and the shop when the volunteers had dashed out of the shop to tell me that they can't take cats. And were very relieved to find that it wasn't a cat that was making the carrier rather heavy!

 

[Reynard]

Took a cat carrier and some spare cat food to a Cats Protection shop once. Being clever, I put the cat food in the cat carrier. I was only half way between the car when the volunteers had dashed out of the shop to tell me that they can't take cats. And were very relieved to find that it wasn't a cat that was making the carrier rather heavy!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

OT - but thank you for that link. VERY, and impressively, different today to the organisation I came across 35 years ago in Egypt. I'm glad I didn't trot out (sorry ) my story from those days.

fair bit different I think to the org she became CEO of. Such is the power of the right appointment with the right backing from the right trustees.

 

[Accy cyclist]

From reading your posts,it looks like donkeys are looked after in Britain but not so much abroad,from charities such as the Donkey Sanctuary. It might have been mentioned before but how can i get my tenner a month to those poor donkeys i saw with deformities being worked to death abroad?

 

[growingvegetables]

From reading your posts,it looks like donkeys are looked after in Britain but not so much abroad,from charities such as the Donkey Sanctuary. It might have been mentioned before but how can i get my tenner a month to those poor donkeys i saw with deformities being worked to death abroad?

The Brooke. https://www.thebrooke.org/

Petra Ingram, if she is still CEO, runs a very tight ship. I know I used to work for her in her previous gig at Sightsavers.

Sigh.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Sigh.

So this'd be better for me than the Donkey Sanctuary?https://www.thebrooke.org/
I just want to make sure before i set up a direct debit!

 

[growingvegetables]

So this'd be better for me than the Donkey Sanctuary?https://www.thebrooke.org/
I just want to make sure before i set up a direct debit!

No comment - your call

 

[Accy cyclist]

No comment - your call

I'll take that as a yes.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

So this'd be better for me than the Donkey Sanctuary?https://www.thebrooke.org/
I just want to make sure before i set up a direct debit!

I think it meets your criteria, as I have understood them, as expressed in this thread. And, fwiw, comes with my rec.

 

[Tanis8472]

Make sure you giftaid

That's a bit of a minefield these days.
A lot of people are below the threshold for paying tax now. I know I am very borderline.
If you giftaid regularly you may find you become liable for the taxable amount as you are no longer a tax payer.

https://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity/gift-aid

 

[vickster]

Fair enough. Not something I've considered