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This Christmas double your charity donations with UK Aid Match…

Brian O'Neill on December 20, 2018, 12:20 pm

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Many people like to give to charity at Christmas time but it is important to look at how you can maximise your donations. Until the end of February, the UK Government will match your contribution to select charities. So if you donate £10 the charity gets £20. It is a successful scheme that has been running for the past few years and is a bit of a no-brainer for your donations. The eligible Charities in the current round are: · AfriKids …

Charity Advertising: the line between “emotional punch” and uninvited assault.

CM Johnston on September 16, 2015, 3:06 pm

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CHARITABLE SHOCK TACTICS: We have all seen any number of shocking, attention-grabbing adverts before now. This is nothing new. But crucially the British Heart Foundation advert made myself, my partner and clearly others doubt the charity’s judgement.

Donate to charity and the UK government will match your donation…

Brian O'Neill on March 11, 2015, 2:01 pm

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UK Aid are running a great scheme whereby they will match your donation to select charities. Eg you give £10 the government gives £10 and the charity gets £20. If you are feeling generous this lent here is the list of eligible charities. CAFOD – donations doubled until 17 May 2015 Lent 2015 The Lent campaign focuses on building resilience against climate change. Match funding will go towards climate resilient agriculture: transforming the livelihoods of 300,000 poor women, men and children in marginalised …

I Finally Used A Food Bank

Kris Nixon (Belfast Barman) on January 25, 2015, 10:15 am

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Some of you may remember that I wrote in support of food banks in December, related to my homeless teenage years. I never used a food bank back then because I didn’t know about them, I wish I did…life might have been easier to cope with. The public response to my account was far beyond my expectation, people really care about this issue. There is a pattern with charities and homelessness around Christmas time… People feel privileged in their warm …

Big Politics Pub Quiz: one day to go!

Patrick Corrigan on November 19, 2012, 2:11 pm

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There’s just a day to go before the Great Big Politics Pub Quiz, so we hope you’re busy swotting up from Schott’s Almanac of Political Trivia, BBC Democracy Live, Hansard, 1996 Forum Election manifestoes and your box-sets of The Thick of It / The West Wing (delete as applicable). Some of our legislators will be among us, laying down the law from the quizmaster’s chair from 7:30pm or thereabouts in The Black Box. This year, we’re raising money for the emergency work of the Red Cross …

Great BIG Politics Quiz: tickets now on sale!

Patrick Corrigan on September 9, 2011, 12:13 am

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Former (edit: see comment #1) Belfast City Councillor Niall Kelly reckons the SDLP South Belfast team are out to retain their Great Big Politics Quiz champions title: I know that ballot box brainiacs from other parties, campaign groups, public affairs companies and the media will be out to prove him wrong. Indeed, there might even be the odd blogger who fancies getting a team together for a tilt at the title. Well you can all now pre-book your places as ticket …

The Failings of Global Aid- is it Time to Make Charity History?

Rory Fenton on September 1, 2011, 10:05 am

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Walking by a lake you see a child drowning. There is no one else around- what should you do? The clear moral answer is to jump in and pull the child out without sparing a thought for potential inconvenience. It has long been argued that the same moral reasoning applies to world poverty- we must intervene to help the world’s poorest. The widely held view is that this help should be aid. But does sending aid make the difference it …

Charity distances itself from commemoration of IRA terrorist

Turgon on August 10, 2011, 11:30 am

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The News Letter is reporting controversy surrounding an event to remember an IRA terrorist who accidentally blew himself up when the mortars he was taking to Pomeroy RUC station for an attack on it exploded prematurely. The event (a tug of war tournament) in Seamus Woods’ honour is to be held at Pomeroy Plunketts GAC. Posters advertising it claimed that proceeds from the event would go to the Marie Curie Cancer Foundation. The charity has, however, distanced itself from the …

Haiti: Crime, corruption and giving

Ciaran McKeown on May 23, 2011, 10:08 am

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Second guest post from Ciaran McKeown, recently returned from a week as a Haven Partnership volunteer building houses in Haiti. Here he reflects on the history of Haiti and its present dire situation – not just facing endemic poverty and the after-effects of earthquake, but widespread corruption and crime too. Haiti is a basket-case, economically and politically. It has suffered relentlessly since the Spanish first annihilated the native Taino or Amerindians who populated Hispaniola and developed its sustainable ecology. Spain ceded …

From Haiti with thanks

Patrick Corrigan on May 18, 2011, 11:37 pm

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Back in October, much of the Slugger O’Toole ‘community’ – Mick Fealty and Paul Evans, bloggers Alan in Belfast and Mark McGregor, politicians of all hues, public affairs company Stratagem, and of course readers / commenters – came together to support the Great Big Politics Pub Quiz, raising money for a house-building project in earthquake-stricken Haiti. The event raised £1,225, all of which went to the Haven Partnership’s Build-it-Week initiative. Due to the cholera outbreak, the week itself was postponed …