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eBay
for Charity
If you sell items on eBay, it is now possible
to donate a percentage of the sale value to CRY. This scheme was
re-launched in May 2008 to make it even easier for sellers to donate to
charity.
You can view the current
lots that are supporting CRY by
clicking here
The eBay for Charity scheme was piloted by the
BBC's Children in Need appeal, and is now open to all charities that register
for the scheme. You can read more about how to support CRY via eBay for Charity at
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/community/charity/index.html
Waitrose - Community
Matters
Supermarket
chain
Waitrose has announced
that charity funding is being made available through a new initiative called
Community Matters. Through this scheme £1,000 a month will be given to each
Waitrose store to distribute amongst three local charities or community
projects - as chosen by Waitrose customers and employees.
As
part of the scheme, each customer will be given a token at the checkout
which they can place into a box representing their preferred good cause.
The amount of money each charity receives will be in direct proportion to
the number of tokens allocated by customers (e.g. £500 if a charity gets
exactly half of all the tokens). Each month, Waitrose staff vote on which
three charity applications will be supported.
To be considered for a donation, good causes and
charities are asked to get in touch with their local Waitrose branch.
If there is a branch of Waitrose near you, please suggest CRY as one of the
charities to benefit from this scheme!
Click here for more information about
this scheme
 easyfundraising.org.uk
- online shopping
If you do any shopping online, you can now raise
money for CRY at no extra cost to yourself. Over 300 online retailers
have signed up to the easyfundraising.org.uk scheme, including all the
big names in retail - Amazon, Boots, BT, Currys, HMV, WHSmith and hundreds
more.
To use this scheme to raise money for CRY, simply
visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk
and create a free account. When you create an account, select CRY
as the charity you wish to support. CRY is listed as 'Cardiac Risk in
the Young (CRY)' in the A to Z of good causes that can be supported.
Then, the next time you are shopping online,
instead of going directly to the website where you will be purchasing items
(e.g. amazon.co.uk), go to the easyfundraising.org.uk website and
log-in to your account. Then simply find the website you wish to
purchase items from in the A to Z list on the easyfundraising.org.uk
website, and click on the link to visit your intended website.
You can
read full details on how this works at
www.easyfundraising.org.uk
 easysearch.org.uk
internet search engine
You can raise money for CRY just by searching the web! Use easysearch
every time you search the web and they will give 50% of the fees paid by
their advertising sponsors to your chosen cause.
Simply go to
www.easysearch.org.uk and type
'CRY' into the 'Who would you like to raise funds for?' box. Then
check the circle next to Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). Now just
type your search query in the search box as usual.
If you can't find what you want with easysearch,
then why not try.......................
Give as you Live online shopping tool
 Give
as you Live works with 2,399 leading stores that have signed up to donate a
commission on every online purchase to the charity of your choice. This
commission is already included in the price of what you’re buying, so you
can support CRY, at no extra cost to you. Every popular comparison website
uses a similar model. With their technology you can still get the best deals
online by comparing millions of products and thousands of brands, but with
Give as you Live you can also send a percentage of everything you spend to
CRY. All without spending a penny more.
Click here to get started.
Click on the box that says "Get Started", select CRY from the list and
install the programme and you are ready to shop! If you have any
questions please contact their
online help or call the CRY office.
 Everyclick.com internet search engine
CRY is
also registered
with www.everyclick.com - an internet
search engine that donates half its revenues to charity.
If you wish to search the internet for something, go to
www.everyclick.com/uk/cardiacriskintheyoungcry (instead of Google, Yahoo,
MSN, etc) and use this page to search the web.
It does
not cost us, or you, a penny so please use it to support CRY.
Charity
Ecosystem - Clothes Recycling website
 You
can now donate clothes to help CRY. We have teamed up with the Charity
Ecosystem to raise funds from your donations of clothing. The Charity
Ecosystem collects donations of clothes, nationwide, for free and we will
receive a cash sum of £4.00 for every bag of clothes
received. By claiming Gift Aid on your donation you can make it go even
further and increase your donation to £4.75!
Please ensure that your donation weighs at least 10 kg and that the clothes
are in good condition with no sign of damage.
Visit
CRY's page on the Charity Ecosystem site by
clicking here.
The Giving Card - "Save
Money. Support Charity"
With
The Giving Card you can save hundreds of pounds a year on your shopping as
well as making a donation to CRY. Simply buy your card online and choose CRY
to receive the £10 donation from your annual subscription and help support
the charity.
To
find out more about the online discounts available and to register for your
card please visit the website.
 Cartridges4Charity
Donate
to charity by re-cycling your printer ink cartridges.
Simply send them to cartridges4charity.co.uk and you will be helping CRY as well
as the environment.
All funds raised will be evenly split between
three charities:
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Cardiac
Risk in the Young
-
Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland
(CBCS) - network of volunteer counsellors across the United Kingdom dealing
with those who have lost loved ones and are having trouble dealing with the
emotion and stress that accompanies such situations.
- SeeAbility - working with adults who
are blind or partially sighted and have a range of additional disabilities
For full instructions please visit
www.cartridges4charity.co.uk
 Ploink!
online piggy bank donations
Create your own online piggy
bank. You can put in as little or as much as you like - just like dropping
your spare change into a collecting tin.
Once a piggy bank has at
least 99p in it you are able to donate the money to CRY. You can do this
using a credit or debit card via a secure payment page. Every penny
makes a difference - start Ploinking now!
For more details see
http://www.ploink.co.uk/
 Giveacar
charity car scrappage scheme
Do you own a banger that’s
merely gathering dust in the garage? Then you can do your bit for
charity!
Giveacar is a UK based fundraising organisation that specialises in
donating unwanted and scrap cars to charitable causes throughout the world,
including CRY.
They provide a FREE service
which is available throughout the UK, and can work with you hand-in-hand by
arranging the collection of the vehicle; and - depending on its age and
condition - they can either send it for environmentally safe disposal and
recycling at an Authorised Treatment Facility, or to a salvage auction.
This means that a large portion of the proceeds are donated to a nominated
charity of the vehicle owner’s choice!
Since Giveacar was set up in
2010, the organisation has already raised over £350,000 for over 250
charities!
To arrange collection of a
car, visit
Giveacar.co.uk or call 020 0011 1664, quoting CRY as your preferred
charity.
"Stamps N All" specialist recycling for
charity
  "Stamps
N All" is a specialist recycling company that passes on the proceeds from
recycling donated items to the charities nominated by the people donating
the recyclable items. That is, as a CRY supporter, you can send
specific recyclable items (listed below) to "Stamps N All" and CRY
will get the proceeds from the recycling of your specific donation.
"Stamps N All" accept the following:
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Any stamps
and stamp collections - used or unused. If they
are on envelopes or cards, please leave about half a centimetre
around the edges. Please don't peel off stamps - it
reduces their value. If the stamps are on envelopes or
cards postmarked before 1970, do not remove them! This is
because they can be worth more as a collectible item if still
complete on the envelope.
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Envelopes
and first-day covers - old, interesting-looking and
even with their letters in!
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Postcards
- with or without stamps on, but please don't remove stamps from
postcards if they are on them.
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Pre-1940s birthday
cards and WW1 silk cards.
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Coins and
bank notes - old or new, from anywhere in the world,
obsolete or otherwise. Maybe unspent holiday currency?
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Precious
metals and old keys - including broken jewellery, old
trophies, gold, silver; and 'mystery keys' from the bottoms of
drawers!
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Watches, medals, badges.
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Items that you wish to donate for
recycling should be posted to:
Stamps N All, Dept CRY, PO Box 83, Bude,
EX23 0WY
Note - this is not a Freepost address so you
will need to pay postage to send your items. For this
reason it generally going to be most cost-effective to gather
together a large collection of recyclable items before sending them
(rather than sending things in dribs and drabs) and either using a
cheap postal option (e.g. Standard Parcels rate) or amassing a big
enough collection (maybe with the help of friends, family,
colleagues, etc) that "Stamps N All" will arrange a free pick-up of
the items.
Please do not send your recyclable items to CRY - they must be sent
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If you have a large amount of items to
donate, call "Stamps N All" on 0845 257 0813 (Mon - Fri, 9am to 5pm) to
discuss whether it might be possible for your items to be collected.
More information about charity fundraising via "Stamps N All" can be found
on the
"Stamps N All" website.
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