Here the editor of the Guardian explains why they deserve your support. There was a time, not so long ago, when to have suggested that the Guardian should encourage its readers to give to charity would have provoked a healthy debate. To have proposed that the newspaper run its own appeal would have risked revolt. Field Formed in 1989 by a group of international lawyers to protect the global environment, Field recruits and trains young lawyers from around the world and provides legal assistance to governments and non-governmental organisations. Place2Be Founded in 1994, Place2Be offers emotional and therapeutic support to children in schools.
Counsellors give private assistance to children with a wide range of behavioural problems.
Refuge Refuge is a lifeline for thousands of women and children in Britain for whom emotional and physical abuse is part of everyday life.