Animal Adoptions Last Minute Christmas Gifts
Leave the first response December 15, 2009 / Posted in ShoppingChristmas is nearly here and if you are looking for a last minute present for a loved one, have you considered an animal adoption or perhaps making a donation to an animal charity instead?
Cats Protection
Sponsor a Cat Cabin for homeless cats waiting to be rehomed from £4 month
Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary
Adopt a chimp from £25 a year and help the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary formally the Cefn-yr-Erw Primate Sanctuary, which rescues and provides a home for many types of unwanted animals, especially primates, from zoos and laboratories. You can pick your chimp online (our favourite is Jason) and the recipient of your gift will receive a certificate and entry into the sanctuary to see their chimp! It costs the centre £450 per day to feed their primates, so they desperately need your cash.
WSPA
Donate £5 a month and become a member of The WSPA and help save stray dogs and other animals from cruelty.
Blue Cross
Register your support for the Blue Cross and help them carry on their work saving pets who have been abandoned.
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Send a Cow – Ethical Charity Gifts for Christmas
Leave the first response December 14, 2009 / Posted in ShoppingLooking for something different to send as a Christmas present? Why not try giving someone ethical charity gift this year from Send a Cow. They are a UK organisation that help some of the poorest families in Africa by providing training in sustainable farming and resources such as livestock, seeds and trees.
All families helped by them pass on an offspring of their animal to another family, so more and more families are getting milk to drink, crops to eat, and money to pay for schooling. For every family that receives direct help another 9 go on to benefit. Today, there are 6,000 families on Send a Cow Gift’s waiting list.
This is a short video from Uganda showing how to make a bag garden. Hope’s mum was helped by Send a Cow training programme and now she uses cow manure in her bag gardens to grow her own food to sell, providing her with an income that she didn’t have before.
Gifts start from as little as £5 for children’s breakfasts, all the way up to £2,000 which will provide a whole farm! Each gift comes with a wallet containing a window sticker and an information card about the gift you’ve chosen. You can choose to send an e-card instead – perfect for that last minute present for Uncle Albert!
The gifts proceeds, less the cost of producing the catalogue, are spent on the Send a Cow livestock and training programmes in Africa.
Play the Send a Cow Kersplat’s Splat Attack game inspired by their magic muck training in Africa which saves lives!
Send a Cow Ethical Charity Gifts for Christmas
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Buy Photobox Christmas Cards and Support the NSPCC
Leave the first response December 7, 2009 / Posted in ShoppingChristmas is the time of the year when people send charity cards, with most major charities in the UK benefiting from deals with card makers and even selling their own via their online shops like Unicef.
Personalised photo card specialists Photobox have announced they will be donating proceeds from the sale of their special NSPCC Christmas cards to the charity.
Buy one of their personalised A5 & A6 Greeting Cards or one of the new NSPCC Young Photographer of the Year 2009 Photobook and they will donate a percentage of each sale to the NSPCC. (5% of the selling price of NSPCC greeting cards and 10% of the selling price of NSPCC Photobook to the NSPCC’s Child’s Voice Appeal)
Special Offer
3 for 2 mix and match offer ending 8th December – so hurry! (Unsure if this offer covers the NSPCC cards)
Buy Photobox Christmas Cards and Support the NSPCC
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Unicef Charity Christmas Cards 2009 – 3 for 2 Special Offer till Midnight Tonight
1 Comment November 30, 2009 / Posted in ShoppingUNICEF have launched their range of Autumn and Christmas Christmas cards for 2009. Packs of Christmas cards start from just £3.95 and this year more packs contain more cards so you can spread more Christmas joy by sending more cards to friends and family!
By sending a UNICEF card you will be helping the charity to help children around the world who desperately need it.
The short video is The Gift narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow, a dramatisation of a new poem by Simon Armitage, to highlight UNICEF UK’s Born Free from HIV campaign which aims to bring about real and lasting change for children affected by HIV around the world. Proceeds from the sales of the UNICEF Christmas cards will go towards this and similar projects.
Special Offer
Hurry! There is a ‘3 for 2′ offer on packed Christmas cards – get the cheapest pack free – which is available online only until midnight Monday 30 November!
Unicef Charity Christmas Cards 2009 – 3 for 2 Special Offer till Midnight Tonight
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Children in Need Charity Record is Number 1 in the UK Charts!
Leave the first response November 29, 2009 / Posted in NewsThe Children in Need official single is number 1 in the charts! Peter Kay and the Animated All Star Band have achieved the first number one for the charity since 2004 when Girls Aloud topped the chart with their cover of The Pretenders’ song I’ll Stand By You.
The Animated All Star Band is made up of over 100 world famous icons from old favourites such as the legendary Bagpuss,Bill and Ben, Postman Pat, Sooty and Sweep, The Thunderbirds, Thomas the Tank Engine and The Wombles lining up alongside new faces including Bob The Builder, Fifi and the Flowertots, In The Night Garden, and of course the axe-man himself, Pudsey Bear. (Watch the video to see the bear rock out for yourself!)
The song is a catchy melody of tunes starting with Can You Feel It, Don’t Stop, Jai Ho, Tubthumping Never Forget, Hey Jude, ending with the Ivor Novello award winning One Day Like This by Elbow.
You can buy the charity single online from Play – iTunes – Amazon
Children in Need Charity Record is Number 1 in the UK Charts!
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