Bursting with pride over daughter's philanthropy

Howard Lake | 24 October 2008 | Blogs

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.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.