- May 18, 2024
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## Setting up a Will to Donate to Charity
As I age and realize that I have no family to leave my belongings and property to, I have decided that I want to donate everything to a deserving children’s charity. However, I am not well-versed in which charities are reputable or will ensure that the money is used for a good cause. The only charity that comes to mind is Barnardos, but I am open to suggestions for other charities that support education or help young people in need.
I want to make sure that my donation has a meaningful impact on a young person’s education or improves the life of a young person who has faced adversity. I hope that this is a feasible goal and that my wishes can be carried out effectively.
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I am a charity auditor so possibly in a decent space to provide a comment! I would identify local children hospices/ community groups with a child focus. The large children’s charities will receive a huge amount of legacy income and not to say your gift would get lost in the mix there but it very much will.
I’ve never seen a children’s hospice that is wasteful and they offer a service to those our health care system ignores. The support I have seen offered to the kids and then to the bereaved parents after the child would give me enough to say if I was in a similar situation this is where I would send it.
Youth groups which are local that are reliant on volunteers are also a great space to help, they keep kids off the streets and out of gangs and often run by volunteers!
I had a quick look at your post history, noted your age, and want to say I am a little worried about you. If this is donation is something you’d like to happen in the distant future – great, go ahead.
But if my suspicions are correct, I want you to take a step back from this line of thinking and reconnect with something that brings you joy. Hug your cat, play a video game, rewatch Cowboy Bebop (or try Samurai Champloo everyone says that’s good but I’ve never tried it). Even though mental health support in the UK is fucking dire, there are still organisations like CALM that are worth talking to. [Here’s their website](https://www.thecalmzone.net/).
It does get better, eventually. It sounds like you have been through a lot, but remember you’ve made it this far. Be kind to yourself.
If it was me, I’d research smaller local charities and pick them over one of the massive ones.
Something like the care leaver’s association, or carers trust?
The first gives support to young adults as they leave care (foster homes, children’s homes etc). They’re often left in a really difficult situation and now they’re no longer a ‘child’, not eligible for a lot of support. They tend to have fewer qualifications, and minimum wage is much lower at that age, so they really struggle. So charitable roles in this area help kids apply to university, go to/stay in college, give support with housing etc.
The second is about young carers (I’m not sure if they’re exclusively focused on young carers though). These are kids who end up having to look after a disabled/ill parent or sibling or something. Charitable work gives them access to respite, fun spaces, the ability to have days when they can be just a kid, which they don’t have normally.
I volunteer for an after school kids club who have soooo much impact on a local level
From foodbanks to trips children on lower income would never have the opportunity to do.
Have a look at local primary schools and their clubs.
The kids will probably make it into little project and create a bench in loving memory
Even your own primary school is a shout
My late Mum went into a Barnardo’s home in the 1949s. They were brilliant and helped her with education and college. She became a proficient shorthand typist.
It is one of the charities to which I regularly donate.
What I’d probably do, is list some charities in your will in order or preference.
With instructions to your executor to donate money to the one at the top of the list. In the proviso that the charity is devoid of scandal in the prior 12 months and spend x% on the actual recipients. If the first one fails the checks, then look at the next one in order.
(Pick your own criteria but at least have some qualifying criteria)
This allows you to make sure that a charity that may become less noble, doesn’t benefit.
I’d certainly go with local charities, rather than big sprawling corporations.
You can use charity commission’s website to see which charities use more money for actual charitable purposes rather than lining wallets of managers.
Just search for the word “children” and then you can have a browse.
Set up a grant/scholarship. I think I read that a free higher education is the only way to get a young person out of poverty in recent years. I will hunt for the article
I’d suggest listing several charities rather than leaving everything to just one. Then if it turns out one is perhaps not making the impact you’d like, then the money left to the others might.
You could split it several ways for different purposes, eg. if you want to help young people’s lives you could pick a charity in childbirth, young learning, further/higher education bursaries, hospice and youth groups perhaps. For most people leaving a house and cash would leave each charity with a decent five figure sum, maybe six.
I’m going to echo a local charity. I sit on our work charity committee that gives grants to local initiatives. We’ve funded things like paying towards prom tickets for the kids whose parents can’t afford them, a mental health worker once a week for a secondary school after the funding was cut, a local youth club that had to close from no funding so they could open again, a football boot library that provides free football gear to local kids who can’t afford it.
Just in my area I know there’s a baby bank, an organisation that works with low income parents and families to help them get on, a charity that helps families and women who are victims of human trafficking, youth sports teams, loads of things.
I would also suggest looking at children’s hospices, they do amazing work.
I work as a philanthropy adviser. I would recommend you make contact with your local Community Foundation. They are experts in local need, have a deep understanding of local charities and you can establish your own charitable fund in your memory to create a legacy specifically for your local area.
This level of gift will make an enormous difference to smaller local youth charities, most of which are struggling hugely with youth funding cuts at a local level.
The community foundation will have a no strings attached chat with you, tell you how they can help and help you understand the local need and what sorts of charities you can support etc. It should be a big help at informing your decision. You can meet with usually their Chief Exec or Philanthropy or Development Director in the first instance.
Another vote for finding a small local charity. I used to volunteer for a locally based children’s mental health trust, which had given my son some amazing support when he was struggling, and a large donation like that would be game changing for them. I do hear very good things about Bernardo’s though if you are looking for something national, members of my family have been supported through some of their schemes, and they are active in more areas than people might think.
Why not set up some kind of trust and give grants aimed at improving children’s lives? I’ve no idea how to do this, but know it’s possible.
Demelza and CLIC Sargent are the two I’ve done some form of fundraising for in the past. Both worthwhile causes IMO.
Have you tried searching for local children’s hospices and seeing if any near to you could do with some support? It might give you an opportunity to visit and see what your money would be going towards.
The children’s society had done amazing work for myself personally.
They got ahold of me when I was 13, been kicked out of mainstream schools and 100% destined for prison.
They took me to football matches every week and took me for days out my mum never would’ve been able too because we were poor AF.
My youth worker was one of the only positive role models I had in my entire life and he used to give me really good, genuine advice. I remember thinking he was the only person who didn’t used to treat me like I was a bad kid and actually beloved I could do something with my life. Because of his he made me apply for all kinds of positions/ groups within the charity.
By the time I was 16 I was on a board to allocate their funding and also on a commission with other young people to provide insight to child poverty. I used to travel all around the country talking of my experiences and what the government should be doing better to help.
Once I was 19 I had personally hosted a parliamentary enquiry and attended or cohosted several others (IN THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT), grilled several MPs about real life issues and met some amazing people(even a few celebs lol) They even sent me to Germany to give a presentation to German politicians about the work we did.
Without the children society I would’ve been in jail before my 18th birthday(very nearly happened anyway) but instead they gave me an amazing CV and a bunch of transferable skills that I use every day. But most importantly they gave me confidence and a belief in myself that I could amount to more than just a criminal.
Also because of our work a set of laws were brought in to limit what schools can charge for a uniform.
I donate to the local hospice. They helped me when I was younger and you can actually see your money at work.
https://www.gosh.org/donate/leave-gift-in-your-will/
Hope and Homes for Children is an excellent efficient charity which devotes itself to closing horrible children’s homes around the world and moves the children into loving family homes.
Great Ormond Street ?
It’s not flashy or glamourous but it’s pragmatic
Vitamin A charities are one of the most efficient at saving lives and quality of life, up there with Malaria. this is backed by real world studies and visiting any “what are the most effective” charities site will say the same.
and ofc there are many that target specifically children
don’t get me wrong, neglecting children and starving children is a horrible horrible thing, in the UK too, but it’s much harder and more expensive to deal with than just throwing a bunch of essential nutrients at malnourishment
https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/best-charities/helen-keller-intl/#:~:text=Helen%20Keller%20Intl's%20Vitamin%20A,lead%20to%20blindness%20and%20death.
Best thing to do is find a small charity that is actively spending the money properly. Go visit the charity. Go through their financials. Makes sure the CEO is not pocketing a million. When you are satisfied, donate with stipulations.
Or, you know, give some of le cheese to moi.
Please have a look at the Ministry of Stories – it is a wonderful charity in East London that delivers creative writing programs for young people. It’s a crucial supplement to their early education by opening up the wonder and possibility of creativity and instil in them a sense of hope and opportunity.
Happy to share more if you DM me.
There’s a charity chart that tells you what % they spend on the cause and what goes on running cost. See if your chosen charity is on this list
Find some groups local to your town, and donate to them. It’ll make a massive difference and loads of them do essential community work thatve had to step in since children’s centres shut
Check out Home-Start UK. They invest in the early years which will subsequently help children’s education attainment.
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It depends on what is closest to you. I would 100% do it for children hospitals.
They need it so much.
My brother was in there for a heart transplant and ive always said i want to raise money for that side because of how well they look after them.
Even make a wish foundation. Amazing
Bliss do amazing work, it is more campaigning and research than directly supporting children. They are a medium-sized organisation where this sort of size bequest would make a huge difference.
Of the large children’s charities, Barbados is one I’ve seen help a lot of people, and does a lot of work that you wouldn’t necessarily expect. Whatever charity or charities you select, check them out on the Charity Commissions website, where you can see their financial activities, including how much they pay their staff. I worked for one charity that had 60+ staff on big money. It really wasn’t justified, and it also held a huge amount in reserves, and as far as I could see spent very little money to help the people they were supposed to be helping. Lovely plush head office though. I didn’t stay long.
My son’s autistic and has been getting help for the last year from Barnardo’s so I’d definitely recommend them. Also Breaking Barriers NW, another autism charity.
Local children’s hospice and NSPCC would be my choices
As someone who had cancer as a child- I really think CLIC or Teenage Cancer Trust would be wonderful options. Having personally been helped so much by the things they fund- play therapy, wellbeing on chemo wards, games and snacks for children and teens who are inpatient, and most importantly the nurses who can come out to see you at home as well as in the hospital. The money really does change lives. I also second the hospice idea.