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Giving to charities, anyone else?

Alice-nice-Alice

With my house sale completing on Monday I will be able to start donating regularly to charities again. Initially I wiil set up a decent direct debit to the National Youth Orchestra. My exposure to classical music opportunities in my school teenage years gave me a joy which lasts for ever (even though my jobs have had nothing to do with music). There was a school orchestra and choir, then the Leicestershire county schools music service bused kids from all over the area to a central a large central campus every Saturday to push their skills further and maje friends. I am aware that these services have been decimated in recent years so supporting NYO makes sense for me, my contribution helping other young people experience what I did. 

As well as learning a phenomenal amount about western music history, the two highlights of those years were singing in Verdi’s Requiem under Lazlo Heltay, and being in the audience for a performance of Mahler’s 8th symphony, both memories full of light and which I can still access in dark times. 

I appreciate that many cannot afford to give regularly to charity but are there others here who do, and if so why?

Thanks

Alice

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  • Yes I play the Lotteries for Alzhiemers, Our Local Hospice, MacMillan, British Legion, Help the Hero's, and Diabetes UK. I have connections with them all through my own and my families health problems. I once did a work placement at the British Heart Foundation which I enjoyed and I also did voluntary work at the Food Bank while out of work. Charities are a damned good thing. Macmillan supported my mother in her final days after she had been diagnosed with cancer. Diabetes I have type 2 which is managed by Diet alone. British Legion I always buy a Poppy and occasionally some merchandise. Our local hospice were a rock to me after my wife had passed away they were the only ones that offered me Counselling. 

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  • Yes I play the Lotteries for Alzhiemers, Our Local Hospice, MacMillan, British Legion, Help the Hero's, and Diabetes UK. I have connections with them all through my own and my families health problems. I once did a work placement at the British Heart Foundation which I enjoyed and I also did voluntary work at the Food Bank while out of work. Charities are a damned good thing. Macmillan supported my mother in her final days after she had been diagnosed with cancer. Diabetes I have type 2 which is managed by Diet alone. British Legion I always buy a Poppy and occasionally some merchandise. Our local hospice were a rock to me after my wife had passed away they were the only ones that offered me Counselling. 

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