thegsi
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Does anyone do it? If so who to? It's been something I've wanted to do for years and just arranged £5 to go towards guide dog training.
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tom_simes
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Registered: 12th Jan 05
Location: Undy, Newport Drives: Skoda Octavia vRS estate
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I paid £20 last week to sail4cancer, a charity I've raced for before now to raise funds for them.
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RichR
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Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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Whilst I don't pay monthly for any particular, I do volunteer with Sailability a charity which teaches or simply takes diabled kids and adults out sailing. We've got a full fleet of disability craft ranging from mouth operated boats to standard boats for more able people.
its really rewarding, far moreso than the Adults who come and pay for weekend courses - they're miserable!
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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charity begins at home so I donate all my wages to myself
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Ben G
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Location: Essex
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we all donate our last working hour of the year to macmillan cancer charity every year.
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Ben D
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Registered: 25th Apr 05
Location: South West
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I used to volunteer for a charity called Body Positive NW when i was younger because my mum was their financial director & a trustee.
It's much more worthwhile to the charity to donate your time to them than your money
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Twiggy
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Not a fan of donating to big charitys as alot of money is wasted on management pay etc....
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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I dont donate to charity, purely because I pretty much live to my means along with a newborn baby (not that I donated previously).
I also have concerns as to how much of a salary alot of these workers/directors are on etc.
[Edited on 06-10-2010 by Bart]
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adiohead
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I don't donate because I can't afford to.
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chr15barn3s
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Location: Farnborough
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
Whilst I don't pay monthly for any particular, I do volunteer with Sailability a charity which teaches or simply takes diabled kids and adults out sailing. We've got a full fleet of disability craft ranging from mouth operated boats to standard boats for more able people.
its really rewarding, far moreso than the Adults who come and pay for weekend courses - they're miserable!
Mouth operated??? 
I don't really give any money to charity tbh. Apart from the charity food boxes at work that you get nice muffins and flapjacks out of 
One charity I do give to though and have no problems doing so is the air ambulance people if they are out somewhere with the buckets.
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JaffaTB
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Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
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very rarely, and if i do its only spare change (coppers that is) and only to something thats in the UK
would never give anything to that paki flood appeal or the likes, balls to em
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Anty
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old euro  coppers.. etc just chuck it in..
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Ingham
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Location: Burnley, Lancashire
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I don't give to charity unless they can prove it goes to English people in England.
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Sam
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Location: West Midlands
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
I dont donate to charity, purely because I pretty much live to my means along with a newborn baby (not that I donated previously).
[Edited on 06-10-2010 by Bart]
Translation:
I never donated to charity because I couldn't be arsed, and now that I've got a kid I'm fucking skint 
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GTM
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Registered: 24th Nov 08
Location: Kingswinford, West Midlands
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I have a direct debit to the RSPCA, tenner a month.
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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Im skint, so no, and tbh I never would
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AndyKent
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Nope, never do. Maybe a few coppers into collection tins outside Tesco, but for me charity starts at home.
Would consider volunteering for something interesting though.
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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quote:
Originally posted by chr15barn3s
quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
Whilst I don't pay monthly for any particular, I do volunteer with Sailability a charity which teaches or simply takes diabled kids and adults out sailing. We've got a full fleet of disability craft ranging from mouth operated boats to standard boats for more able people.
its really rewarding, far moreso than the Adults who come and pay for weekend courses - they're miserable!
Mouth operated???
its a series of pneumatic valves operated by blowing into tubes which inflate bellows to tighten the sails or operate the rudder etc.
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mantamark
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
Location: Northumberland
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I do stuff for WaterAid, got into it through work.
Though i dont do monthly things, i do events, walks, make stuff for bake days etc.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I deal with a couple of charity's, sooooo much money is wasted on extraneous staff.
So for that reason, I'm out.
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taylorboosh
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i never donate and even refused to sponsor my gf in race for life. its not that im against charity, i just hate the fact that even the people holding the buckets get paid. now on the bt apprenticeship they do a thing called challenge(insert poor country). did one called challenge africa in which 50 apprentices raised 3k each in various fundraising activities. then used the cash to go to africa themselves to build a school and also gave 50k worth f food and seed to underpriviledged familys.. now thats worth while imo
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Root
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Registered: 28th Dec 08
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only when I see them in ASDA or Tesco, give them a few quid
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gazza808
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Registered: 30th Jun 08
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go to events/walked orgainised by a dog rescue that specialize in my dogs breed,
sponser friends/family doing race for life etc.
thats about it, refuse to give any thing for aid outside this country,
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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I've got a rare medical condition, and "Jeans for Genes" supports it, so I fundraise once a year for it (On 1st October). Got £800 this year, better than nothing.
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Eddx14xe
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Location: Hertfordshire
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quote:
Originally posted by AndyKent
Nope, never do. Maybe a few coppers into collection tins outside Tesco, but for me charity starts at home.
Would consider volunteering for something interesting though.
I dont give money to charity, but wouldn't mind go to africa etc and help build/install water pumps/schools etc
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