Green Charity Donation Eco-Ethically
Oct
17
If you want to give away some of your hard-earned income, thousands of charities are only too eager to accept it. Choose your charity carefully to match your environmental, ethical, and green priorities. You can give to local housing projects or to clean-water projects in remote parts of the world. Whatever your principles, there’s sure to be a charity to match.
You may want to do some research by calling a charity’s head office to find out how much of the money you give ends up invested in the project you’ve picked and how much goes in administration.
Below you’ll find some of the many different ways to give and to make sure that the money arrives in the right place.
Charity greetings cards are very popular as you don’t have to make any regular commitment to giving. You’ll find them in the charity’s own shops or at Christmas in branches of supermarkets, department stores, special Christmas shops, and newsagents.
Affinity or charity credit cards give a small percentage of your spending - usually around a quarter of 1 per cent - to charity.
For example, The Royal Bank of Scotland offers customers the option to support the Royal National Lifeboats Institute or the Woodland Trust. Customers of the Bank of Scotland can donate to Mencap, Cancer Research UK (Scotland), or the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Nationwide’s card benefits Comic Relief.
Charity and affinity cards often charge you a higher rate of interest on your spending than conventional credit cards.
A direct debit scheme transfers the amount you designate from your bank account to the charity of your choice each month.
You can also give through work. Your donation is taken directly from your salary and paid straight to the charity. And because you don’t pay tax on that amount, it’s tax-efficient as well.
When it comes to giving gifts to friends and relatives you can be green about that too. The other way of giving green gifts is to give money to a project or to buy something in your friend’s name that is used to benefit someone in need elsewhere in the world.
Over recent years there’s been a big increase in that kind of ethical giving. You can give money for a goat, donkey, chickens, sheep, trees, guide dogs, wheelchairs, bicycles, school equipment, and water filters. The charity running the scheme gives you a card or certificate showing that the money has been given on behalf of your family member or friend, and you give that person the card showing what’s been donated in their name.
A gift of this sort ticks all the boxes — it helps someone, is green, doesn’t damage the environment, and there’s no need to fret for weeks about what to buy someone. It’s appropriate for nearly every occasion: holidays, birthdays, weddings, graduations, and so on. And there’s no wasteful wrapping paper either!
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