‘The More You Give’ (2nd edition) is available NOW…

The second edition has more inspirational stories, contributions from over 30 philanthropists,  how giving is  changes your life in a positive way, why you should care about the environment, charities to support, a guide to setting up your own charity, plus plenty of useful contacts for a huge variety of ‘things you can do’  large and small, to help make the world a better place.

If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try getting into bed with a mosquito.
 To save one life is as if you have saved the world. The Talmud
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UK bonus’s top £26Billion, charity donations remain static

Predictions are that by 2016 the UK will the richest nation in the world.  26% of the population will be millionaires.  And it’s not all about property inflation.  £26Billion of bonus payments were received in the 15 months to April 2007.  So are we becoming more charitable? You might think so from the media, but the stats show public donations have been static for the last decade.  Larger, generally well-funded charities - ‘the super league’ with incomes over £100million a year - take more of the public’s money whilst smaller charities are losing out.
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Two new sites for major donors to select projects online launched in September.

Oxfam Projects Direct is encouraging people who want to give over £10,000 to a single project to connect with what’s going on locally. 

The Big Give has been set up with a database of projects from over 60 charities for people wishing to give £100,000 or more

Learning from Giving.

Mike Dickson speaks out in Coutt’s November newsletter about how one bet changed his life.
   “I started the charity Whizz-Kidz when I was running a bicycle retail company in London. I went to a drinks party, had a few glasses of wine and stuck my hand up for entering the London Marathon. This was 1989 and I was 40. I went home and waved a training schedule around in front of my wife’s dinner companions who offered to sponsor me £1000.