ISPCC charity donation query

my_username

Hi there,

I'm trying to decide on a charity to donate to at the moment and the ISPCC has been recommended to me a few times. However before I make my donation I was wondering if people had any opinions on the organisation?

I guess my concern is, will my money get directly to the people who need it or does it go into the day to day workings of the organisation. Not that it would be a bad thing particularly if it did, but I would prefer for my money to be getting directly to the people who need it most.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

Sleepy

DISCLAIMER: I'm a former Childline volunteer.

The ISPCC as a charity is more about providing services to and advocacy for Children than providing money to them. The day-to-day working of the organisation is what the charity's about. Funding is used to provide the Childline service, the TeenText service (Childline by text/email runs under a few 'brands', currently on pilot in a few counties and working extensively with deaf children), One-to-one support for children identified as being at risk etc. Other work includes running parenting seminars, taking disadvantaged kids lobbying government for stronger child protection laws, a bill of children's rights etc.

Their website is pretty good on what they do: http://www.ispcc.ie/About-Us/What-we-do.aspx

From what I've seen, staff are paid less than they'd get in the open market and most (all that I met but won't claim that's necessarily representative) that work there full time do it because they want to help the kids.

I left because my personal life got too busy (I had a child of my own to mind) but I intend to try and go back to it at some point in the future.

my_username

Hi Sleepy.

Thanks for the information. I dont really know enough about the ISPCC and I found all of that very helpful. Thanks.