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AllanP · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Central Scotland.

Which charity do you wholeheartedly support by means of donations or volunteering help?
Mine is Cancer Research, as I spend two afternoons a week in their charity shop as a bit helper.

But what is your own favourite charity, and do you help by donating, or by helping out?
In this current climate, every little bit helps someone else.
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blind neep · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 66 Location: Aberdeenshire

Charity begins at home as far as I'm concerned.

I used to help in a charity shop by testing electrical donations and found most of the people there were there to see what they could get for themselves, or were there on placement for community services orders.

I do make donations to organisations but they're for specific interests to me, and I wouldn't call them charities, like the Manx Grand Prix helicopter fund.All the personnel involved in that activity give up their time for free.

I don't believe in making donations to charities where they're run by paid management, like the charities accountants and lawyers who rarely do their work for free, but it's up to individuals to make up their own mind.

eloise · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 3497

Salvation Army and The Lifeboats my three girls run the race for life every year, in fact they are doing it today.........
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AllanP · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Central Scotland.

AllanP · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Central Scotland.

Alison · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:50 am Post subject:

Favoured charity is ARMS, Action Research into Multiple Sclerosis (absolutely NOTHING to do with the MS Society).

AllanP · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Central Scotland.

I have to applaud everybody and all who contribute in their own small way to worthy causes, who then in turn help the less fortunate, not only in our own country but elsewhere.

We are a charitable nation in the UK who care for others less fortunate than ourselves.

Do other nations do as well per head of population? Perhaps not!

Good on you all!
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Alison · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject:

I've noticed that invariably, Scotland always comes out tops per head of population when Children In Need, Comic Relief, etc is on the telly.

We get the usual crap of being 'condensed' as a bunch of grippy barstewards, but when the chips are down and counted, we're not too tight on letting the shilling go.

Wee John · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:14 am Post subject:

Mad Welshie · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:55 am Post subject:

We donate to the local animal ambulance charity.
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eloise · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 3497

Just to update you all my 3 girls raised £502 this year, over the years they have raised £2883.10 in total, how proud am I

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Wee John · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject:

Guid on them eloise, that is smashin.

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Alison · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject:

Brilliant!

notatallsure · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 202 Location: A place near you

Well done them!!

BoB · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject:

eloise · Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 3497

You kinow the best thing about it all is most of the money raised has been donated by The Tartan Army !!

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AllanP · Joined: 17 Jan 2008 Posts: 488 Location: Central Scotland.