Charity

Charity A Charity is an organisation that exists to enable one group of people

to help another. It can sometimes be for animals or nature. Many of

the best known charities were set up by people who felt passionate

about a situation that they believed was wrong or preventable.

There are 180 thousand charities in the United Kingdom alone. The idea

of charities is to do away with the problems they were set up to

tackle. They would prefer not to have to exist at all. In the United

Kingdom it is easy to create a charity to do what you think is right.

You can raise money and get involved in your own way. There are very

few rules about charities, as long as the money raised is used

sensibly to help the cause it was raised for. Through the Charity

Commission, (http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk) the government make

sure that happens.

Some causes that charities work to support:

•Abuse

•Education & art

•Illness

•Neglect

•Poverty

•Stopping prejudice

•The environment

•Unwanted animals

•Victims of disaster

Some ways charities help:

•Building facilities that meet the needs of the cause

•Empowering people to change their lives for the better

•Employing professionals, well trained staff

•Organising volunteers

•Providing products & services

•Providing services & care that no one else can provide

•Raising money

•Researching cures & treatments for serious illnesses

•Running campaigns

•Speaking out for people

So how do charities make a difference? In 2001 ...

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... not, as it is estimated that there are still around one billion people

in the world including the United Kingdom who face poverty and chronic

hunger. Many feel that it is the governments job to feed the mouths of

their own country and that if they concentrated on preventing war

which causes many of these conditions money could then be spent

sorting out our own countries poverty and other problems.

One thing is for sure Band Aid and other charities such as comic

relief have made us sit up and take note, which is the first step.

Whatever your thoughts on charities, whether you believe that money

raised in this country should be spent on problems in this country or

world wide, they do remind you that there are people worse off than

you. Charities are usually there because governments are not doing a

good enough job.