Charity

[Garrison Savannah]

Another vote for a racing charity. IJF is the obvious one, but perhaps this is an opportunity to help a less obvious one that struggles to get the income a better advertised charity like IJF gets?

I don’t know - something is better than nothing and this place is great for this kind of thing. I love being a tiny part of it

[BigChaang]

I was going to say Salvation Army , but i would also agree with Aaron lad's choice .

[Freyno]

A very thoughtful gesture.
May I suggest Ronald Mcdonald House charities.
They have accommodation at/close to specialist children hospitals across the uk, allowing families to be as close as possible to their sick child, without the hassle of travelling home and continuing some kind of normality for families during an extremely difficult time.
Even when grabbing a mcdonalds rounding your pennies up will help with the amazing work this charity does.

https://rmhc.org.uk/our-houses/

+1 from me great choice Aaronlad

[Quevega]

I always think visually with charities.
Show me a picture of what you're helping out - and a child with cancer or child in distress wins every time.
I think it's a humanity survival thing that's inherent in our genes (most of us anyway, you get the odd one with the opposite mindset, don't we Vladimir ?)

[Atlantic Viking]

I'd agree with any racing charities or mind (or any other mental health charity anyone suggests) given their links to the forum and how we do things.

Another charity close to my heart is Dogs Trust simply because we rescued my first two dogs from there just before COVID and I love(d) them to bits.

Don't want to derail the thread but I got mine from there in the summer (German Shepherd/Husky cross), sadly a 'covid dog' inmate (i.e. morons (obviously not you!) who bought a dog during covid then realised they didn't want/couldn't handle one). They are honest, proper and reassuringly thorough, which in my experience is the exact opposite to the RSPCA unfortunately.

[Exar Essay]

Some great suggestions in here. I’d plump for Greatwood or Mind personally, but all great causes.

[Stormez]

My immediate thought reading the opening post was IJF, but having read the McDonald House suggestion I think I’d go with that. They’ve provided great help & support to people close to me in recent years.

[archie]

Great idea Kev.
I'd suggest a racing related charity, not to dismiss the excellent work of other charities but it's what this place is about, I'd say the IJF or https://www.greatwoodcharity.org/horses.html

Agree with this. Greatwood or Retraining of Racehorses for me.

[Birds Nest]

I'd go along wih the Greatwood charity too, boosting a smaller charity profile would have perhaps a bigger impact from the money and maybe we should think about promoting them on the site too and become a registered donar of theirs. Just a thought..

[robith]

I think as a racing forum Greatwood makes the most sense.

Otherwise I'd have nominated the White Helmets - true heroes who have gone up a whole other level in helping save people following the recent earthquake in Syria