I give to Action Aid, Oxfam and the Red Cross, plus always to any cancer charity or contribute when friends are raising money for cancer treatments. I worked for the NSPCC for some time and found it good to have time to work with children and families in a more thorough and long term way than is usually possible in over stretched social work teams. However, I don't appreciate the way the organisation continues to publicise itself to give the impression is will investigate abuse allegations made to its call centres. It doesn't, it simply sends a fax containing basic information to the local social work team, and they investigate. I'm not implying the organisation isn't involved in developing some good services for people, but I do wish their advertising was more honest. Apologies in advance if I'm offending those who raise money for the nspcc - don't mean to be offensive