My daughter, who is not quite yet eight, was out shopping with her mum last week.
“Mummy,” she said, out of the blue, “I’m going to give £10 of my pocket money to Children in Need.”
Although suitably impressed, Mum ask if she was sure she wanted to make such a large donation, which, after all, did amount to 20 per cent of our daughter’s disposable savings (largely accrued via her grandmother).
“Yes,” came the reply. “I don’t really need my pocket money because you give me everything I need.”
I can’t tell you how much my chest is swelling with pride. I’m sure many other parents, probably tens if not hundreds of thousands, are similarly proud of how their kids are responding to Children in Need. But they don’t have a UK Fundraising blog on which to write about it.
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Prize-winning
Maybe I'll nominate her for the Beacon Fellowship's Young Philanthropist of the Year.
Let's not big her up too much though. Her savings are relatively depleted at the mo because she bought her own DS earlier this year, which pretty much wiped her out financially.
Donor fatigue? Not likely
Lovely. Good to hear the next generation of donors has got the message.
So, given the proportion of her savings that represents, does she qualify for the UK's youngest major donor?
Next stage - the importance of regular giving from her pocket money. No, OK, that's going a bit far...