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Going back many years, bingo has always played a large role in raising funds for charitable causes. Actually before bingo became a huge commercial success it was chiefly played by communities to raise funds for their local parishes and churches. In fact more funds for church steeples and repaired church roofs have been raised through funding from bingo games than anything else.

With the growing trend for online bingo and playing in land based clubs, although some communities still do use bingo for raising funds, bingo has taken a different turn. Instead of local communities raising funds through bingo, clubs and online bingo sites are now making a huge effort to raise funds for charitable causes and they stage “charity games” on a regular basis.

Bingo for charity is played in exactly the same manner as a normal game of bingo would be played. The difference is that a portion of the proceeds of a particular game or day is dished out to a charity of choice. In this instance players are still afforded with the opportunity to win, as well as have the knowledge that the wagers they contribute towards the game will be well spent, in that a charity will benefit from them.

Online bingo operators, and there are a long list of them, make every effort to raise funds for charity and there is one site that is completely dedicated to charity. This site is very aptly names “Big Heart Bingo”. However there are many others that host charity days and fund raising drives. Mirror Bingo hosts a Charity day once a month. The modest player who plays for as little as ¤10 per week is able to raise many hundreds of pounds to help support charitable causes.

If you are keen to play bingo in aid of charitable causes, you just have to take a look at various bingo sites and see what turns you on. Of course by consulting an online bingo portal, you will also find out this kind of information, and this will preclude the need to trawl a whole lot of bingo sites until you find what you are looking for.

For interests’ sake, Big Heart Bingo provides charitable donations to three charitable sectors, these are 28% of the popular vote goes to animal charity, 19% of the popular vote to cancer research and 18% to children’s charities, 50% of Big Heart Bingo’s revenues goes to these and other individual charitable campaigns.

By: Robert Hutchison