How do charities become part of the Charitable Choice family? According to Wilson, they must be registered in Hong Kong and actively providing services to benefit the local community.

Charitable Choice checks on the charity’s financial status, scope of activities and meets with their management team prior to onboarding them. On an ongoing basis, Wilson says, they continue to liaise with charities to learn more about their impact on the local community, observe their programmes in action when feasible and maintain a dialogue with their team when donations are received on their behalf.

“The onboarding process and continued due diligence takes a significant amount of time… If we are able to find a sponsor or partner to help us grow our team, we may be able to provide our service to more charities,” she says, sharing that they are not onboarding new outfits at present.

“Charities rely on the generosity of donors in order to carry out their missions to serve Hong Kong and every donation counts.“

“Charities are generally having a difficult time in Hong Kong,” she continues, “and could use your help. Other than making a simple online donation, there are so many ways to get involved – buy a coffee from The Nest cafe to support The Nesbitt Centre, donate old towels and newspapers to the animals at SPCA, plant trees at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, donate $100 to help an elderly person living alone to have an emergency call button, donate life jackets to Sailability, donate supermarket coupons to Society for Community Organization,” she says.