Giving your best

How you give to charity matters as well as what you give

Giving to charity is selfish - and that's fine

Donating money is as much about making ourselves feel good as it is helping others.

I'm giving £1m to charity on an ordinary salary

This man has pledged to give away at least 10% of everything he earns.

Kindness of pub regulars who rescued homeless man forced to sleep rough

Pub customers rallied round to put this man back on his feet and into a home of his own.

The charity rebuilding the lives of refugee children in Britain

Ahsanullah Ahsas suffered horrors on the way to the UK, but help from the Children's Society has transformed his existence

A Liverpool lifeline for a Yemeni hospital at the front line of the cholera epidemic

The intensive care unit and the A&E could not keep running with ragged staff who often did not have food for themselves or their families.

The hypocrisy of the filthy rich

There are wealthy individuals who make generous contributions to charity while avoiding paying tax. Is this fair?

The child abuse 'business': how one charity picks up the pieces

Barnardo's workers take to the streets to try to protect vulnerable youngsters