The side traditionally "bags" at any public event, if appropriate and permitted. The donations received are divided between running costs (hall hire, sticks and bobbins, etc) and a regular donation to a chosen charity. The following charities have benefitted from this munificence over the past years and the total sum donated is around £3000.
| Keech Hospice Care | 2011 |
| Keech Hospice Care | 2010 |
| Alzheimer's Society | 2009 |
| Great Wymondley Church Restoration Fund | 2008 |
| Herts Young Homeless Group | 2007 |
| Garden House Hospice | 2006 |
| Woodland Trust | 2005 |
| Garden House Hospice, Letchworth Garden City | 2004 |
| Earthworks | 2003 |
| Alzheimer's Society | 2002 |
| British Heart Foundation | 2001 |
| Earthworks | 2000 |
| Amnesty International | 1999 |
| Amnesty International | 1998 |
| Plan International UK | 1997 |
| Amnesty International | 1996 |
| The Woodland Trust | 1995 |
| The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire | 1994 |
| The Crescent Support Group | 1994 |
| Action Aid | 1993 |
| Garden House Hospice | 1993 |
| St Albans Mencap for Young People | 1992 |
| Noonan's Syndrome Society | 1992 |
| Motor Neurone Disease Association | 1991 |
| National Society for Colitis and Crohn's Disease | 1991 |