The 5 Best Ways to Donate to Charity
With Christmas just around the corner, you might be looking forward to a festive season of parties and presents. Not everyone’s so lucky though. Switch on the news and you’ll hear stories of suffering from around the world or take a walk through your local town and see people without homes to call their own. If you want to do your bit to help, why not give to a good cause? There is a range of charities to donate to out there, and it’s never been easier to make donations. Here are five of the best ways to make your contribution.
1. Set up payments online
One of the simplest ways to donate is to set up payments online. Simply go to the website of your chosen charity and follow the instructions provided. Many charities give you the option of making one-off or regular payments. For example, the humanappeal website enables you to set up single or monthly contributions, and it allows you to choose from specified sums or set your own amount. This process takes a matter of moments and it’s a great way to give money.
As well as donating directly to charities, you can make payments online through special donation websites, such as JustGiving, Virgin Money Giving and BT MyDonate.
2. Make one-off donations by mobile text
Another quick and convenient way to make donations is to set up one-off payments on your phone. Lots of charities launch special appeals that allow you to text a code to a number in order to make a single payment. All you need is your mobile phone and the relevant code. It’s always worth checking the terms and conditions, but in most cases you should find that mobile providers offer this service for free, meaning that 100 per cent of the money you give goes to the charity you’re donating to.
3. Arrange transfers through your bank
Prefer a more traditional approach? Why not set up a transfer through your bank? To do this, you’ll need to know the bank your charity uses, the account name and number, and the sort code. Then you can simply decide how much you’d like to give and whether you want to set the payment up as a one-off or make it a regular contribution in the form of a standing order.
4. Donate by post
You can also keep things traditional by donating by post. It’s still possible to send cheques or drafts to most charities. Just make sure you make your cheque or draft payable to the relevant organisation and send it to the correct address. This can be a simple way to make a single payment if you want to avoid going online or using your mobile.
5. Give your time and become a volunteer
Bear in mind that charities don’t only encourage financial contributions. Many are also looking for enthusiastic helpers for their campaigns. So, if you’ve got a little spare time and you’d like to put it to good use, why not consider volunteering? There are lots of different roles available. For example, you might be able to put your marketing skills to use or help your chosen charity to stage events. As well as benefiting charities, volunteering can be rewarding and it can help you to enhance your CV – so it really is a win win.
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I would love to give my time but I don’t really know where to start out here in LA because the city is just so big and I don’t want to take part in anything shady – and sadly, a lot of “charity” in LA is shady! 🙁
I regularly donate to charities but I hate the amount of money they waste on unecessary advertising and paperwork etc.
Donating to Charities are always a good thing to do, I usually donate online via Paypal. I also tried to volunteer to charity events.
These are all great ideas. We donate to charity once and awhile and we usually do it online.
I’m always looking to give back especially to local and nation charities. I like the idea of setting up online payments and giving my time as a volunteer. I plan on doing a lot more volunteering in the summer, it feeds my soul.
I am in the process of packing up my things to move into a new place – and I am finding LOTS of stuff I need and want to donate!!
Awesome post. These are all great ways to give back.
great options. i donate a few times a year. i always encourage my kids to donate as well. It’s so improtant to us to share what we are blessed with.
Donating money is one thing, but there is so much more we can donate. My favourite has to be donating food to the food bank – I always take my kids shopping and then we drop it off together. That way they learn to be charitable too :). And I find that time is even more precious thing you can donate. It’s hard to find it, but it can benefit so many. Great list to. remind us about giving, especially this time if the year…
It’s really important to us! I think we all need to try volunteering to help the other people who needs help. This is good to hear!
These are all such great ways to give back. I never really thought of setting payments up online. That’s interesting.
I am teaching my kids the value of volunteering. We frequently do things as a family.
This is really important!! Thank you so much for sharing this and spreading this info
What a wonderful way to donate with the charity! Such an awesome post
I love this. thanks for the ideas. I really want to donate more next year.
Though I have not done any volunteering in a while I try to give back any way I can if not my time. These are some awesome ways
Best way is to take stuff down to homeless shelters or a leave a toy=holiday/care package on someones step whos having hard times or could use the help. I wont donate to charities because it goes to the big CO’s.
Se manifique! Madrespect to you for promoting this campaign and raising awareness for charity. I love donating and do it every chance i get.
These are all great ways to donate to charities. I love the idea of giving your time to them. Volunteering a great way to give back. It is awesome to show our children too to give back to other in need. Thanks for sharing the ways to donate to charities.
These are great ways to donate to charity! I love giving to charity.
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Great suggestions!!! I’m all about anything online these days so I will have to look to see how I can donate online
These are all great methods to donating to a church. I personally love donating my time and efforts.
This is very good information. My moms group could use this list. Thanks for sharing.
These are all amazing! There’s nothing like donating to charity especially during this time. It would be nice to give back after receiving all those blessings.
I totally agree – it is so nice to help those who need it, especially when you have been blessed by such help yourself.
I love this list! I tend to like to donate via a text message. So easy!