The WWF is one of the world’s best known animal charities, helping to protect dangered species. They also work as an environmental charity to help protect habitat such as endangered rain forests. You can help the WWF with a Charity Gift this Christmas for a loved one. we asked the WWF to tell us a bit more about how you can help and where the donations you make will be spent.

How are donations via charity gifts spent by the charity?
Charity donations are spent funding our wide range of conservations and environmental projects across the world, from protecting endangered species and their habitats - such as the Panda and Orang-utan to our work to tackle climate change and our campaigns to lobby governments eg. to cut carbon emissions.  We also use them to fund the administration of these projects.

What percentage of the money goes directly to the cause e.g. no admin costs etc?
We are proud to say that WWF spends 66% of our income on conservation, education and public awareness and 7% on direct support for this work - supporting and training our other offices worldwide working directly on our conservation programmes. A further 26% of our income is spent on fundraising and for every pound we spend on this; nearly £4 is generated for our valuable conservation work. We also spend less than 1% of our income on management and administration.

What are your top gifts for Christmas?

Christmas Charity Gift 1
WWF  ‘Adopt a Wild Animal’ products. Our most popular are :

• Polar bear 
• Orang-utan
• Tiger
• Panda
• We also offer Dolphin, Elephant and Rhino Adoptions

What is in the Adoption pack?
An irresistibly fluffy toy of the adoption species, WWF bag, certificate, photos and a greetings card. We also send three updates through the year, letting you know how your donations are helping.

Xmas Charity Gift 2
WWF Membership

What is in the Membership Pack?
A members handbook, a guide to green living and three issues of WWF Action Magazine a year to keep you up to date on how your support is helping address the very real threat of environmental destruction,  Plus 2 beautiful wildlife fridge magnets.

What makes your Christmas Charity Gifts unique?

Christams Charity Gift 1
WWF ‘Adopt a Wild Animal’
- From just £2.50 a month you can help WWF protect the adoption species and its habitat (and by protecting habitat you are also helping lots of other species that live there.) The adoption animal is a REAL wild animal. A Christmas gift that makes a big difference.

Xmas Charity Gifts 2
WWF Membership
- From £3 a month you can play your part in conserving the future of the natural world and the wildlife and people that depend upon it,  A Christmas gift that makes a big difference.

Delivery Dates :
Last date for ordering for delivery by Xmas – 13th December 2007

>> Adopt an Animal with the WWF

>> Sign up for WWF Membership

>> Top Christmas Charity Gifts

Next in our series introducing Christmas Charity Gift providers we’re going to take a look at Practical Presents which is the charity gift shop for Practical Action who work with poor people in developing nations to develop a better future.

Briefly describe your charity and which areas it works in.
Practical Action (the parent charity of the practical presents charity gift shop) aims to use the power of sustainable technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. We believe that the right idea - however small – can change lives – by creating jobs and improving health and livelihoods. Since 1966, we’ve been working with poor people to develop the skills and technology that will enable them to build a better future. The tools may be simple or sophisticated – but to provide long-term, appropriate and practical answers, we believe they must be firmly in the hands of local people who shape the technology and control it for themselves

How are donations via charity gifts spent by the charity?
All gifts are greatly valued and will fund the whole of Practical Action’s work around the world. To ensure our work grows from strength to strength Practical Action will use your donation wherever the need is greatest. 

What percentage of the money goes directly to the cause e.g. no admin costs etc?
For every £1 of an Practical Presents donation, 83 pence is used for our current and future projects.

 What are your top gifts for Christmas?

• A dynamic donkey
• fluffy ducks
• and gorgeous goats.

What are makes you charity gifts unique?
Unlike novelty socks, a Practical Present is a gift that helps to change lives.

If you’re fed up with sending friends and loved ones gifts they don’t really need, choose a Practical Present instead. We offer lots of ingenious solutions to poverty like a dynamic donkey, the power of water or a clean latrine. Whichever you choose, you’ll receive a gift card, a certificate and a special keepsake for your friend or loved one; and your money will help to support Practical Action’s long term projects in developing countries.

>> Buy a Charity Gift from Practical Presents from just £10.00

>> Read our review of Practical Presents

>> Top Christmas Charity Gifts