November 21, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Two appeals on the same day from Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital Charity, so I advise them to tidy up their database to avoid waste. The receipt of the appeal triggers another train of thought.
The Health Services Act of 1980 empowered Health Authorities for the first time to raise funds from the public, furthermore with [...]
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October 30, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I am always impressed by the quality of the mailings from the Camphill Family which raises funds for eleven communities in different parts of the country which support adults in need of special care and understanding. Care is provided in safe, secure but open environments where worthwhile work is available, creativity encouraged and real learning [...]
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October 17, 2007 at 5:11 pm
A highly informative leaflet from the Smile Train, a charity which exists to help children born with cleft lip and pallet. One of the best explanatory papers I have seen accompanying an appeal containing clear but very simple scientific information explaining the possible causes, defining the associated problems and explaining how effective surgery can be [...]
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October 10, 2007 at 10:54 am
Having been away from home for three weeks I returned to find 49 charity appeals. It is impossible to respond to them all but seeing so many together reinforces my view that the world would be an infinitely poorer place without them, supporting as they do many in this country and across the world who [...]
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September 26, 2007 at 10:27 am
In my last blog I mentioned the dilemmas facing humanity. Many of the worst crises suffered by humanity are caused by other humans and the dilemma is how to change human behaviour to avoid, for example, the number of orphans created by war and disease, AIDS in particular for this Charity. Ethopiaid does not have [...]
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September 12, 2007 at 4:32 pm
We are now beginning the Charity Christmas Card frenzy and the first catalogue which I have received is from Children with Leukaemia.
The cards are attractive and well presented, the costs are reasonable and there is a clear indication of how much per card will benefit the Charity. An accompanying leaflet describes simply some of the [...]
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September 3, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I have regularly over the last two years supported World Villages for Children because I admire the educational work they do in the third world and I will respond, but only once, to the two letters which I received this week, each with 12p in coins attached. Two points for the charity to consider:
The slight [...]
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August 28, 2007 at 3:50 pm
In the 1940s Aneuran Bevan described voluntary activity as a patch quilt of local paternalism. I wonder what he would have thought of Habitat for Humanity had it existed then.
The charity works in 92 countries helping the dispossessed. Volunteers arrive on sites around the world to work alongside “home partner families” to build a “simple [...]
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August 23, 2007 at 12:41 pm
In the words of Margaret Mead “Never doubt that a small group of a committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has”. Of course the committed citizens to whom Margaret Mead refers are usually the trustees of a charity so it is interesting to read an appeal from [...]
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August 10, 2007 at 1:48 pm
“£10,000 in cash is ready to release to Mr ” (Cancer Recovery Foundation).
“Mr. you are a winner” (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
“A big prize may already have been awarded to you” (Association for International Cancer Research)
At least the last one used the word “may” and did not require me to read the small print [...]
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