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
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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British Red Cross Parcels Charity Gifts for Christmas
Leave the first response November 27, 2009 / Posted in ShoppingThe British Red Cross sent more than 20 million parcels to captive soldiers all over the world during the Second World War, protected by the Red Cross emblem providing supplies and hope to the recipients in their hour of need. They have now launched their online British Red Cross Parcel. Send someone an extra special gift this year, by buying a British Red Cross Parcel on their behalf to help people in the UK and around the World who need our help the most.
Using their parcel wizard you can put together a parcel of virtual gifts of your choice, the value of which will be donated to the British Red Cross. The charity will then use your donation to help people wherever the need is greatest, both at home and abroad.
The only down side is that they are unable to tell you exactly how your parcel donation will be used in funding projects due to the cost. However, it is refreshing to see a charity focusing the money they receive on the people who need it the most.
British Red Cross Parcels Charity Gifts for Christmas
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Children in Need 80 Days Around the World Trip worth the Cost to the Tax Payer?
Leave the first response November 25, 2009 / Posted in FundraisingOver £20 million pounds was raised on Friday night when Children in Need took over BBC 1 for the whole evening for Pudsey’s Big Night In. One of the events of the show was the around the 80 Days Around the World relay trip taken by 12 celebrities, which we blogged about previously, questioning whether the amount of money raised would justify the expense of laying on the trip.
According to the Daily Mail the trip cost £1 million and was funded by license fee payer cash. They also add that environmentalists have attacked the show for the ‘pointless carbon emissions’ of sending celebrities on an around-the-world ‘jolly’ using public cash. In total, the trip raised around £145k for Children in Need.
Should the BBC have given the cash directly to the charity where it could have helped fund far more projects than the amount raised by the trip?
Is the BBC abusing it’s unique position of public funding, creating shows which seem to lack any value for money, when license payers are struggling to make ends meet in the current recession?
Children in Need 80 Days Around the World Trip worth the Cost to the Tax Payer?
