Which charity should Habbox Support this Christmas?

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

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

All others are still worthy charities.

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.

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.

Yorkhill Childrens Foundation

please not barnardos

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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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

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Originally Posted by Mikey

Yorkhill Childrens Foundation

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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.