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Many different ones.
Recently raised over £500 for British heart foundation.
Last year I raised the same for diabetes UK.
Have raised money for samaritans.
A lot of people have been raising money for a local family so have given to a number of people doing bike rides etc. |
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I support loads of charity shops, either donating stuff or buying, although cancer research get the bulk of my donations as my mum died of cancer last year, I also advocate s.o.p.h.i.e and recently did a charity walk for papyrus. |
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By *yldstyleWoman
over a year ago
A world of my own |
In the past I've raised money for chest heart and stroke and cash for kids by doing an abseil off the forth rail bridge and a bungee jump.
I donate clothes to the local cancer research shop too.
However at the moment I'm being greedy and not donating anywhere other than the _yldstyle family. Summer holiday childcare costs a fortune.
Shamefully I once signed up to do a monthly donation to wwf because the guy was hot.. I cancelled it after 2 months!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I spend time each year volunteering on overseas aid-projects that involve supplying remote communities with safe water and medical support ....
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You should get in touch with Simon Konecki. He owns the company life water that sells bottled water then builds wells in third world countries. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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PDSA
Founded in 1917 by animal welfare pioneer, Maria Dickin CBE, PDSA is the UK’s leading veterinary charity. Operating through a UK-wide network of 51 Pet Hospitals and 380 Pet Practices (contracted private practices), PDSA provides free veterinary care to the sick and injured pets of people in need and promotes responsible pet ownership. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I have always had my concern about how large charities are run and how much actually gets through. Often I think my allegiances should go to smaller ones with less overheads or have people who voluntarily work for them. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We've recently done the 26.2 mile Moonwalk in London. We've raised over £600 between us both..."
A few Fab ladies were on that. Could have been some funny looks going on.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged! "
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons |
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons"
People are free to donate their money as they see fit.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
People are free to donate their money as they see fit.
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I never said otherwise |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well i technically support cancer research because I practically live in Charity Shops.
But I support Victims of Domestic Abuse and I help out in a art store that helps kids with learning difficulties learn maths and english through art and craft, knowing oh so well how difficult it is to learn these when you are a crafty person |
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
People are free to donate their money as they see fit.
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I never said otherwise"
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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago
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There are a few that I'll always try and donate to but one close to my heart is a small but interesting charity called Specialized that raises money for Teenage Cancer Trust and Youth Music by releasing albums of covers by unsigned bands/singers of a different group or artist each year. So far they've released albums of covers of songs by The Specials, The Beat, Madness, The Clash and this year it's Bob Marley.
They also host various gigs/events throughout the year.
If you want to know more Google "Specialized Project" and it's the first on the list. Some of the albums are also available via Amazon/iTunes.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have direct debits set up for Brooke and the donkey sanctuary because i just think donekys have a rough deal they are used and abused all over the world, worked to death in a lot of countries so i like to support them
I also give to the WWF regular
I do a lot of personal found raising for the local greyhound rescue that i also do volantry work for and the PDSA
I prefer to help animal charities |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons"
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself. |
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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago
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Oh and we've also just recently decided to support a cat sanctuary (Tala Monastery Cats) in Paphos, Cyprus on a regular basis. We visited last year and they have around 650 cats at any one time that they try and care for on a very limited budget - and being cat lovers ourselves feel it a very worthwhile cause that's not quite as mainstream as some of the other charities.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself. "
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive? |
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?"
I think, on balance, you're the one who's being difficult.
There was no need to couch your initial or subsequent comments in those terms and it is unsurprising that the respondent has reacted in this way.
Chill.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?
I think, on balance, you're the one who's being difficult.
There was no need to couch your initial or subsequent comments in those terms and it is unsurprising that the respondent has reacted in this way.
Chill.
Your initial opinion was not about the topic. It was a slight on my character. I suggest you re-read your first comment. I have yet to see which charity you support. Should you wish to add value to the thread and become part of the conversation perhaps that would be a start.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"None, but I would if they got the money I donated instead of only a small percentage "
Perhaps look at local smaller charities should you wish to get involved. Most have a volunteer workforce and a higher percentage goes to the those in need. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.
A couple of my colleagues have been out in Calais and Greece this year. I am hoping to donate my time as well as financial aid later this year. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?
I think, on balance, you're the one who's being difficult.
There was no need to couch your initial or subsequent comments in those terms and it is unsurprising that the respondent has reacted in this way.
Chill.
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You're telling me to chill?
Dude.. I'm not the one over reacting here! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?"
because your opinion was more about the OP's comment rather than charities in general maybe? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?
I think, on balance, you're the one who's being difficult.
There was no need to couch your initial or subsequent comments in those terms and it is unsurprising that the respondent has reacted in this way.
Chill.
You're telling me to chill?
Dude.. I'm not the one over reacting here!"
You like to accuse people of over reacting. Do you think it's an easy way to take away from a valid point they make in a statement? Like an argumentum ad hominem logical fallacy? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?
I think, on balance, you're the one who's being difficult.
There was no need to couch your initial or subsequent comments in those terms and it is unsurprising that the respondent has reacted in this way.
Chill.
You're telling me to chill?
Dude.. I'm not the one over reacting here!
You like to accuse people of over reacting. Do you think it's an easy way to take away from a valid point they make in a statement? Like an argumentum ad hominem logical fallacy?"
To be honest with you I'd prefer it if you weren't petty enough to follow me around different threads to goad into an unnecessary confrontation of some type, thanks all the same. |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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Shelter because I know a few people who wound up homeless and on the streets.
Mencap as people I know are affected by mental health Issues.
Suited n Booted. A charity in East London which helps homeless males back into the workplace. |
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?"
you again Mr Brunel. Didnt even have to look at the username to see who had started to post on the thread |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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A nice selection of charities here. Good to see the variety of big and small. Local and international. Humanitarian and the "Arian" associated to animals. |
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?you again Mr Brunel. Didnt even have to look at the username to see who had started to post on the thread"
LOL
Busted!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've supported St Giles hospice for last 4 yrs.
And signed up to do pretty muddy 5k race next month to raise money for cancer research....tho its taking time 
I will do something for cancer again having had to deal with close family going through it of late
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have no idea where my £4.50 a month goes. The lady from SHIELD takes my money at the door and gives me the booklet,which I forget to read. I'm a terrible donator. All local charities though and I do remember them buying an incubator for a local baby unit. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I have no idea where my £4.50 a month goes. The lady from SHIELD takes my money at the door and gives me the booklet,which I forget to read. I'm a terrible donator. All local charities though and I do remember them buying an incubator for a local baby unit."
Is that an agent from SHIELD? Do you donate to superheroes. Well done you. no seriously. That's great support. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?
I think, on balance, you're the one who's being difficult.
There was no need to couch your initial or subsequent comments in those terms and it is unsurprising that the respondent has reacted in this way.
Chill.
You're telling me to chill?
Dude.. I'm not the one over reacting here!
You like to accuse people of over reacting. Do you think it's an easy way to take away from a valid point they make in a statement? Like an argumentum ad hominem logical fallacy?
To be honest with you I'd prefer it if you weren't petty enough to follow me around different threads to goad into an unnecessary confrontation of some type, thanks all the same."
I had already commented on this thread when I saw this exchange. But by all means, confirm my argumentum ad hominem suspicions |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"At the moment I like to support Help the Aged!
Sounds like your support for any particular "charity" is as fickle as changing clothes to suit the seasons
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your comment. Its up to me who I choose to donate to. Fickle is not a word we word use in this situation. If something has touched me in a particular way and I wish to help then that's my concern. Over the years I have supported many and still do. Your unwanted opinion you can keep yourself.
This is a forum - a forum is where opinions go - people create threads for other people's opinions - you created a thread for other peoples opinions so I gave mine - so what the hell is your problem?
Why are you being so touchy and defensive?
I think, on balance, you're the one who's being difficult.
There was no need to couch your initial or subsequent comments in those terms and it is unsurprising that the respondent has reacted in this way.
Chill.
You're telling me to chill?
Dude.. I'm not the one over reacting here!
You like to accuse people of over reacting. Do you think it's an easy way to take away from a valid point they make in a statement? Like an argumentum ad hominem logical fallacy?
To be honest with you I'd prefer it if you weren't petty enough to follow me around different threads to goad into an unnecessary confrontation of some type, thanks all the same.
Funnily enough. Someone just contacted me to tell me that you're the one who likes to go around trolling. Hence your first comment.
I ask you again, add value to the thread or go
elsewhere. What is you favourite charity? "
My personal favorite is Help For Heroes - among others of course |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I have no idea where my £4.50 a month goes. The lady from SHIELD takes my money at the door and gives me the booklet,which I forget to read. I'm a terrible donator. All local charities though and I do remember them buying an incubator for a local baby unit.
Is that an agent from SHIELD? Do you donate to superheroes. Well done you. no seriously. That's great support. "
She's disguised as a middle aged lady |
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I support many charities in different ways.
When i buy my clothes from charity shops im indiscriminant.
When i give my clothes i give them to the.local air ambulance.
I like to see hands on i dont give.to a homeless charity but i activly seek out homeless people, chat.to them and buy them what they need i feel its.more.personal.
I.donate.to.a.mental health charity amd two cat charities.a.month
I was going.to stop the cats protection and give.to the other but ive ended up giving.to both
The smaller one i know.all the.cats and can go see them anytime. I also adopt.the.old.cats.from there.
Throw.money in buckets.but.always.ask about the.charity.
Im looking.at.doing.a lot more.hands.on |
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i support the childrens acorn hospice in birmingham
i have hosted two FAB charity socials in just under 8 months and in total raised around £2800
the last one on 27th may raised £1750.00 fot the charity possibly organising another at the end of oct
150+ swingers in a vanilla club loads of fun , games and raising £££ for a wicked charity |
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After being a long term volunteer with a large national charity my opinion on charities changed.
I now prefer to give when there's a specific appeal as opposed to my money going into general funds.
But I'm also uneasy with appeal giving (but I'd rather do something than nothing) as not all donated money goes out as quickly as it should, if it even goes out at all. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Cystic fibrosis as my little cousin has it I have got plans to do a charity boxing match to raise money for it."
Giving to charity is more fulfilling when there is a personal connection. My mother raises a lot for different cancer charities since she came I'll a few years ago. Mainly small local ones or kids cancer charities. It's the small things that count. There's often a coffee morning going on around her house. |
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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago
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I volunteer / work for Guide dogs for the blind. Puppy walking and fundraising.
Cancer research
Douglas Macmillian.. Yes I will be doing another coffee morning at mine. Feel free to come along.
Anthony Nolan, bone marrow, trust |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I spend time each year volunteering on overseas aid-projects that involve supplying remote communities with safe water and medical support ....
You should get in touch with Simon Konecki. He owns the company life water that sells bottled water then builds wells in third world countries. "
Thanks for the suggestion .....
But we've been doing what we do pretty much every year since 2004 using a tried and tested formula that works the way it does simply because we are able to operate a self sufficient programme thanks to the co-operation and generosity of our corporate sponsors.....
We drill wells and install water purification equipment whilst providing support and assistance to a mobile field hospital.....
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I volunteer at the national trust local property and have been doing so since 1989
Lots of people give to medical charties for deepfelt personal reasons and i understand why but personallly i feel this is the job of the nhs and i pay plenty for that womderfull organisation
I also give time at local dog trust and an adult befriending trust
I am tight and prefer to give my time than cold hard cash at leasr i know where my time goes |
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