# Bursting with pride over daughter's philanthropy

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/24/bursting-pride-over-daughter039s-philanthropy/
- Published: 2008-10-24T09:59:10+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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).

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“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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## Comments

### By: admin

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/24/bursting-pride-over-daughter039s-philanthropy/#comment-3348
- Published: 2008-10-24T10:45:05+01:00

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…

### By: ianmacquillin

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/24/bursting-pride-over-daughter039s-philanthropy/#comment-3349
- Published: 2008-10-24T12:42:02+01:00

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.