Which charity should Habbox Support this Christmas?

[Jin]

Name

Description


‘Water’ (http://www.charitywater.org/)
Water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations


Kidscape (http://www.kidscape.org.uk/)
Kidscape is committed to keeping children safe from abuse


ChildLine (http://www.childline.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx)
ChildLine is a counselling service for children and young people


Shelterbox (http://www.shelterbox.org/)
Shelterbox provide emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies for families around the world who are affected by disasters


RNLI Lifeboats (http://www.rnli.org.uk/)
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We provide a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service around the coasts of the UK and RoI


Barnados (http://www.barnardos.org.uk/)
Barnardo’s transforms the lives of vulnerable children across the UK through the work of our projects, our campaigning and our research expertise


‘Plan’ – Sponsor A Child (http://www.plan-uk.org/)
Plan works for children and their communities to help realise children’s rights


Riders for Health (http://www.riders.org/)
Riders are working to make sure all health workers in Africa have access to reliable transportation so they can reach the most isolated people with regular and predictable health care


GOSH (http://www.gosh.org/gen/)
We raise money to enable Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide world-class care for its young patients and their families and to pioneer new treatments and cures for childhood illness


Yorkhill Childrens Foundation (http://www.yorkhill.org/page/Home.aspx)
Yorkhill Childrens Foundation exists to help sick children get better, yet it does so much more. As the largest children's hospital in Scotland, Yorkhill has a worldwide reputation for excellence, treating over 150,000 children from across Scotland every year.


Clicsargent (http://www.clicsargent.org.uk/Home)
Every day 10 families are told their child has cancer. As the UK's leading children's cancer charity, CLIC Sargent is the only organisation to offer them all round care and support. That’s because we’re there every step of the way


UNICEF (http://www.unicef.org.uk/)
UNICEF UK is a registered charity raising funds and awareness to support UNICEF's work to protect child rights worldwide


Doctors without Borders (http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/)
Every year, Doctors Without Borders provides emergency medical care to millions of people caught in crises in more than 60 countries around the world


Childrens Heart Foundation (http://www.childrensheartfoundation.org/)
The Children’s Heart Foundation is to bring health, hope and happiness to children impacted by congenital heart defects, the number one birth defect in the United States


Sidsandkids (http://www.sidsandkids.org/)
SIDS and Kids is dedicated to saving babies and childrens lives through the elimination of sudden and unexpected infant deaths during pregnancy, birth and childhood, supporting bereaved families and funding research into stillbirth










































Poll Closes 30th November @ 00:32

[tylermunjkt]

ChildLine defo.

[Hopeless]

RNLI lifeboats. They save a lot of lives and at a time when their resources are being cut quite dramatically I think it would be a nice touch and a bit different.

[MKR&*42]

Hmm yeah, ChildLine definitely :)

I think it would also be nice (I haven't seen last years 'nominees') if next year, some animal charities were introduced? :P

But yeah, for this one - definitely ChildLine, helped me a lot ^_^

[Jin]

Vote on the Poll

[sophiethenerd]

Kidscape

With us being a forum with many teenagers on. And childline gets a lot of money but this is less well known

[Hopeless]

Ahh, was in before poll :P voted now :]

[Jurv]

Children's Heart Foundation. :)

[-ry!]

NO I DEMAND YOU TO ADD MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY TO THAT LIST!! my baba cousin has it, and it needs loads of more money to help find a cure :(

[Recursion]

Take GOSH off, they're always on the list :l

[Chippiewill]

Take GOSH off, they're always on the list :l
Why shouldn't people be able to vote for them?

[Recursion]

Why shouldn't people be able to vote for them?

I have nothing against GOSH, but I'm sure Habbox donated to them last year...?

[Hopeless]

Well it's always up to the user. Majority rules. Perhaps it is what people feel most passionate about.

[-ry!]

they all have enough right to be up there

[Jin]

I have nothing against GOSH, but I'm sure Habbox donated to them last year...?

Try Make a wish foundation.....

[Hopeless]

Confused. It says voters: 22 but there are way more than 22 votes?

[MKR&*42]

Confused. It says voters: 22 but there are way more than 22 votes?

Yeah, it does as well o.O

Mind = blown.

[Eoin247]

All good causes,unfortunately had to narrow my choices down to two

[Jas,]

Childline :)

[Eoin247]

Confused. It says voters: 22 but there are way more than 22 votes?

You can choosemore than one charity i believe

[-ry!]

Im suprised at childline 's outcome on the vote tbh =s

[Matt]

RNLI!! Although im not in the Uk lolz

[Chippiewill]

I have nothing against GOSH, but I'm sure Habbox donated to them last year...?
It's been stated almost every year that they don't want to do repeats of charities.

[-ry!]

I think people are just picking childline because it's well known lol

[FlyingJesus]

Was there a point to this thread (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=719104) then? Seems like MIND which loads of people were up for isn't on the list and instead there's a load that no-one's ever heard of let alone suggested

[Stephen]

Was there a point to this thread (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=719104) then? Seems like MIND which loads of people were up for isn't on the list and instead there's a load that no-one's ever heard of let alone suggested

This

loads of us wanted MIND. Was surprised when I couldn't vote for it cos it werent even on the list

[GommeInc]

Err, where is MIND? Loads of people wanted it. Infact, most of the options in this current poll seem to of been plucked from thin air. Many I don't recognise from the previous suggestions in the thread FlyingJesus mentioned.

[FlyingJesus]

10 children's charities, 4 foreign aid charities and the RNLI woooooo

[Recursion]

Try Make a wish foundation.....

Fair enough, KEEP IT UP THERE! xD

[-ry!]

I think u shud do a re-vote cos i wnt Muscular Dystrophy to be in there so much aw

[Neversoft]

Why so many childrens charities? We've donated to them so much in the past, would be nice for the money to go to somewhere else for a change. I voted RNLI for that reason.

[tdi]

Why so many childrens charities? We've donated to them so much in the past, would be nice for the money to go to somewhere else for a change. I voted RNLI for that reason.

Same here. Out of all charities, I mainly support Cancer Research UK, Air Ambulance and RSPCA.

[Kyle]

I was looking for MIND too. Where have you got this list from jin? Look at the thread garner posted a few months back and revise this list please?:D

[karter]

UNICEF, helps a lot of people worldwide

[Thomas]

Clicsargent, where isChild's Play?

[Zuth]

Yay! You used my table :D - I've voted for Childrens Heart Foundation

[Rainbow]

Defo voting for Childline :)

[beth]

disgusted at this. i suggested mind in the last thread and got support from many others [@]@flyingjesus[/@] [@]@rozi[/@] [@]@lawrawrr[/@] [@]@stephen![/@]; ([@]@kyle[/@] in this thread) to name a few.

it's cool i have enough VIP til may and i won't be buying VIP when we've frankly been ignored and made yr own list up.

joke.

[GirlNextDoor15]

Well, can I vote for a few times instead of just one? UNICEF will be a great choice but I voted for Childline since a lot of users voted for that and I don't live in UK. Thought Childline is a great choice then.

[SitchJon]

UNICEF and Water they are the ones that need it more

[beth]

ight so i went through the other thread and here is what I make the poll should be if you actually take into account what people have voted for.


help for heroes
water
cancer research
macmillan
nspcc
childline
kidscape
makeawish
shelter
dyspraxia foundation
barnados
plan-uk.org/sponsorachild
aware-ni
riders for health
yorkhill
mind
unicef
scope
marie curie
wspca
rspca
british film institute
childrens heart foundation




right so you chose the 15 out of them, and rather than choose a charity that at least 30% of that thread were supporting you've added choices that ONE person chose "riders for health" i am sure they are very worthy causes but i think this is a complete and utter farce. and there was also the point that habbox was one of the only fansites that didn't make that much of a fuss over the loss of one of it's members to suicide, and mind deals with teen suicide.

(just gonna tag people who supported mind so they can help push this [@]@FlyingJesus[/@] [@]@Rozi[/@] [@]@Chippiewill[/@] [@]@GommeInc[/@] [@]@Stephen![/@]; [@]@Kyle[/@] [@]@Lawrawrr)[/@]

[Jordan]

I voted for shelter box :)

[Mathew]

I've voted for them all because I don't think it's appropriate for me to support one over the other when I don't know enough about them. I'm not a large supporter of major charities and would have preferred not to vote, but I couldn't put up with the annoying poll at the top of my index any longer.

[Jin]

I have contacted each and every charity for the last 2 years so we can get a fund raising pack and it also allows us to offset some taxes if given the right documents.

The fund raising pack is usually things that I can use to further boost donations outside of Habbox for example for last years MAWF fundraising pack they sent me 150 wish pins, vectored graphics, trademark information, POS displays (for the pins) and tax forms. This allowed me to boost the donation by £150 as I managed to sell all the pins over about 7 days in my town centre.

MIND haven't even contacted me back after several attempts to contact them via different methods, so I cut them as I wasn't prepared to have to pay taxes on the extra revenue we receive during Christmas for raising money for a charity that don't bother to contact me or even return a phone call.

Other charities were cut due to a lack of community interest or because they were a bit pants.

[@]FlyingJesus[/@] [@]Rozi[/@] [@]Chippiewill[/@] [@]GommeInc[/@] [@]Stephen![/@] [@]Kyle[/@] [@]Lawrawrr[/@] [@]Publicised[/@]

[Jazz]

Defo Childline. =]

[Chippiewill]

MIND haven't even contacted me back after several attempts to contact them via different methods, so I cut them as I wasn't prepared to have to pay taxes on the extra revenue we receive during Christmas for raising money for a charity that don't bother to contact me or even return a phone call.
This is totally justified imo, I'm for the charity as an idea but if they don't care enough about donations to return a phone call then clearly they're not that desperate.

This also really shows how much work Jin puts into this charitable effort each year.

[beth]

I have contacted each and every charity for the last 2 years so we can get a fund raising pack and it also allows us to offset some taxes if given the right documents.

The fund raising pack is usually things that I can use to further boost donations outside of Habbox for example for last years MAWF fundraising pack they sent me 150 wish pins, vectored graphics, trademark information, POS displays (for the pins) and tax forms. This allowed me to boost the donation by £150 as I managed to sell all the pins over about 7 days in my town centre.

MIND haven't even contacted me back after several attempts to contact them via different methods, so I cut them as I wasn't prepared to have to pay taxes on the extra revenue we receive during Christmas for raising money for a charity that don't bother to contact me or even return a phone call.

Other charities were cut due to a lack of community interest or because they were a bit pants.

FlyingJesus Rozi Chippiewill GommeInc Stephen! Kyle Lawrawrr Publicised

thank you for clearing this up, would've been easier if it could've perhaps been put in the first post to clear up confusion. and make it feel like the community as a large hadn't been ignored.

have voted for shelter as i've worked with them before.

[ColyTom]

Definitely 'Water' :)

Although there are lots of good candidates :)

[Sharon]

Don't see why GOSH etc. are always on the list, they get enough money. Places like Cancer Research spend ya money on pens and badges.

Why didn't MIND get chosen? I think Bethie suggested that, it was really popular.

Once again, a stupid vote.

---------- Post added 27-11-2011 at 01:15 PM ----------

Okay blame this mobile skin for my above reply about MIND as my pages don't work, the first paragraph still stands however.

[Eric]

Childline :)

[Stephen]

Guess childline wins then just cos it's known :P

They'll probs spend the money on taking their staff out for a meal

[FlyingJesus]

I have contacted each and every charity for the last 2 years so we can get a fund raising pack and it also allows us to offset some taxes if given the right documents.

The fund raising pack is usually things that I can use to further boost donations outside of Habbox for example for last years MAWF fundraising pack they sent me 150 wish pins, vectored graphics, trademark information, POS displays (for the pins) and tax forms. This allowed me to boost the donation by £150 as I managed to sell all the pins over about 7 days in my town centre.

MIND haven't even contacted me back after several attempts to contact them via different methods, so I cut them as I wasn't prepared to have to pay taxes on the extra revenue we receive during Christmas for raising money for a charity that don't bother to contact me or even return a phone call.

Other charities were cut due to a lack of community interest or because they were a bit pants.

FlyingJesus Rozi Chippiewill GommeInc Stephen! Kyle Lawrawrr Publicised

Appreciate you letting us know this, massive shame as I truly think they're one of the most important charities in the developed world at present, saddens me that a cause so lacking in public understanding has chosen to ignore help from people willing to really push for them.

[Kyle]

Thanks for clearing it up jin. It's a shame they wouldn't respond to calls etc :(

All others are still worthy charities.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I voted for the Childrens Heart Foundation and the Great Ormond Street Hospital - in other words the non-politically correct British charities. I'm afraid we are mostly wasting time with foreign/oversea charities as a great deal of money always goes missing/is abused by political factions in those countries (for example food aid being directed solely to pro-regime areas). A sad reality.

It is a great shame we didn't have Help the Aged/Military charities on the poll this year.

[Sharon]

I voted for every one but Childline, GOSH and Childrens Heart Foundation. They get enough money and there's many more charities out there that need the money.

[Mikey]

Yorkhill Childrens Foundation

[wixard]

please not barnardos

they get an unbelievable amount of support from people and they have so many volunteers working for them on the streets

[Hopeless]

I don't get the argument "Habbox shouldn't donate to ____ because they have so much support already". It isn't like Childline for example only use the first 10 million each year to good causes and use the rest in pay bonuses. All the money they get goes to sustaining their charity and the fact they're so established just goes to show how hard they worked when they were founded as opposed to how unworthy they are of our money :P

[wixard]

I don't get the argument "Habbox shouldn't donate to ____ because they have so much support already". It isn't like Childline for example only use the first 10 million each year to good causes and use the rest in pay bonuses. All the money they get goes to sustaining their charity and the fact they're so established just goes to show how hard they worked when they were founded as opposed to how unworthy they are of our money :P

yeah but the other charities are less heard of, it would be nice to give money to them as they obviously don't get as much as the big charities out there that are well known, and have so much publicity.
after all we're a tiny website and the donation isn't very much. it could make a bigger difference to a smaller charity

oh and also i give barnardos 21 euro a month, and i'm most definitely not the only one
it would be nice to give to another charity for a change

[danzooo]

Yorkhill Childrens Foundation

This. I work for a company that does administrative calling work for charities, and Yorkhill is one of our clients. Some of the work they do is unbelievable, and they are the only children's hospital in Scotland that carry out things like cardiac surgery, kidney and bone marrow transplants and paediatric intensive care, for kids. Yorkhill is a charity that really has affected me, I find it ridiculous that a hospital has been forced to set up its' own charity to fund equipment such as ENT diagnostic suites and paediatric intensive care ambulances, simply because the funding they receive for the NHS does not stretch far enough. Plus it's in Scotland, so I fully support them.

[coolfish30]

Childline, they are probably going to be of the most help to people on this forum

[Lanyon]

Where is reachout.com ?

[GommeInc]

A shame MIND were playing up so went for CHF, GOSH and YHCF.

[beth]

because i'm pretty much a big supporter of mind, i emailled them asking why they hadn't bothered to reply and received the following reply would it be too late to include them in the poll?

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg233/scaled.php?server=233&filename=mindorg.jpg&res=medium

t (http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg233/scaled.php?server=233&filename=mindorg.jpg&res=medium)agz ppl to gather support @flyingjesus @rozi @gommeinc @kyle

[Davy]

Yorkhill as im currently receiving treatment from them

[theskyisblue]

childline in my opinion :3

[Mikey]

This. I work for a company that does administrative calling work for charities, and Yorkhill is one of our clients. Some of the work they do is unbelievable, and they are the only children's hospital in Scotland that carry out things like cardiac surgery, kidney and bone marrow transplants and paediatric intensive care, for kids. Yorkhill is a charity that really has affected me, I find it ridiculous that a hospital has been forced to set up its' own charity to fund equipment such as ENT diagnostic suites and paediatric intensive care ambulances, simply because the funding they receive for the NHS does not stretch far enough. Plus it's in Scotland, so I fully support them.

My mum works for Yorkhill Hospital in the renal (kidney) unit and I know first hand on how much the money helps.

[Phil]

Voted for all the children charities!

[danzooo]

My mum works for Yorkhill Hospital in the renal (kidney) unit and I know first hand on how much the money helps.

Really? My job is actually purely fundraising for the charities, and the campaign we're doing for Yorkhill at present is the non-responders, i.e. people who have taken on a home money box but not returned it, and trying to get them to sign up to direct debits instead. It's really one that's touched me, what with their presentation they gave and the stories and details I have on my infosheet. I love doing the campaigns for Yorkhill.