Forum charity - 3rd year

[dom]

On a personal level for me I would have to say a charity related to cancer. In the last 12 months I have had an aunt diagnosed with breast cancer, an uncle with leukaemia and my girlfriend lost her grandma to cancer in November.

On top of all this I found out this afternoon that it is highly likely that my mum has breast cancer, so something http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ would be my first choice.

[The Doc]

Any cancer charity is good for me - rolling road day 2 for Carbon me thinks 

[Len]

Sod breast cancer! More men die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer! FACT!

So I like jv's suggestion!

[Steve_PD]

Prostate cancer sounds good, lost my granddad to it last year

[The Mighty Elvi]

I have nothing specific in mind....but what about a small charity or a rare illness.  Or one of those  "raise some cash to send my sick child to America for a life saving operation"  thing.

A bit more bang for our buck...as it were.

Seems the big charites gets loads of cash & exposure.  Maybee our contribution would be a bit more effective to support something more directly.

Just a thought.

[jv]

I hear you Elvis and did ponder one to choose like that. I reckon though, that with something more specific you are less likely to appeal to a wider donation audience. Suppose it depends on more money for a bigger charity or potentially much less money for a smaller one. Trickeee innit.

[The Mighty Elvi]

I do think that the majority of members on here are "good eggs" and as such would support mostly any charity, because it is the forum charity.

There may be a silght uptake in interest because of personal experience / it's flavour of the day...like Help for Heros, but I think we would all chip in and support the chosen cause, regardless of size/scope.

My own personal experience is with Leukemia.  It was fortunate that I ticked the right box when I started donating blood as a student.  About 5 years ago I was told I was a match with a small boy in France who had Leukemia -he was 5 years old.

So I donated my bone marrow and afaik, he is sill alive and doing well.

So..to add to the list, that's my two penneth.

Jonathan.

[Jack3559]

I've gotta agree with Jonathan.

I'd rather donate for something tangible than donate to a charity to pay for someone like me to do as little as possible.

If we could raise enough money to pay for a treatment or a fixture or an amenity we'd see our results.

1. Raise money.
2. Give Chuff money.
3. Chuff goes to Ethiopia.
4. Chuff builds a new well.
5. Chuff updates build thread.
6. Forum members feel warm fuzzy feeling. 

[Thom89]

Lost family and friends to both Prostrate, and Breast cancer recently, so Cancer Research gets my vote

Thom

[Wayne]

I think cancer is something that we can all relate to in one way or another so cancer research gets my vote.