By the time that new online charity Christmas card venture Studio51 launched its website this month, over 150 charities had signed up to use its service, which donates 51% of the sale price to charities.
A new online charity Christmas card venture launching at the Institute of Fundraising Convention today (stand 20) is committed to passing 51% of the sale price to charities, compared to a typical 10%, or less, from cards sold through high street retailers.
The Telegraph Media Group's 2006 Christmas Charity Appeal has raised over £1 million pounds from readers of The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and Telegraph.co.uk.
William Lewis, Editor of The Daily Telegraph, will today be presenting donations from the appeal to its three beneficiary charities - SSAFA Forces Help, The Microloan Foundation and Chailey Heritage School.
Online giving service Bmycharity is once again sending its clients and contacts an e-card instead of a traditional printed corporate card and making a donation to charity. This year though it is asking recipients to choose which of three charities will get a their £2 per recipient donation.
This Christmas Bmycharity is supporting SPECAL, Victa and Friends of the Earth.
Coutts & Co has donated a unique Christmas tree for Save the Children’s Festival of Trees – an exhibition of designer Christmas trees that have been donated and adorned with gifts from a number of
The Charities Advisory Trust surveys all main high street shops which offer ‘charity’ Christmas cards (the fieldwork is carried out in the last week of October / first week of November). The purpose of the awards is to alert the public to cards purporting to be charity cards where less than 10% of the purchase price actually goes to charity.
From 1 November to 17 December more than 350 ASDA stores and depots across the United Kingdom will be collecting gifts for children, teenagers and older people, which will be donated to, and distributed by, The Salvation Army and Help the Aged.
