Making Cents: Thinking of charities at Christmas

At a time when many of us are spending more than we do in any other month of the year, and we see children in particular being showered with gifts, charitable donations seem more important than ever. The support of charity gift collections, from shoeboxes to Bóthar’s sheep, comes from this desire to use the extra that some of us have to help those who need it.

Recently solicitor Emma Comyn, a partner in Comyn Kelleher Tobin’s conveyancing team, told me about another way of donating to charity, for those who have shares to give rather than cash.