Looking for Charity Vouchers to give as Xmas prezzies?

Barebear

I have googled for this type of thing and found a few sites that will let me buy a few vouchers to give to people in cards so they can give the donation to their chosen charity. While these all look the part, does anybody have first hand experience of any of these types of sites? Could you reccomend any to me please?

Savvy_Sue

Only from the recipient end, as it were. Our charity is quite used to accepting charity cheques from Stewardship Services and CAF. I don't know about vouchers, but imagine they would be similar to the cheques.

Where have you seen vouchers from? I can tell you if I've heard of them or not, and whether we're already registered with them. Obviously a key thing is that any charity would need to be registered with the voucher provider before receiving the funds, so a smaller charity might be less likely to have done that already.

lizziewizzie

Hi, I try to raise some money for Home Counties Boxer Welfare and one of the ways is with everyclick.com. At this time of the year they run a Christmas donation scheme where you can choose to send your festive greetings and make a donation to any charity in the UK, or you can give each of your recipients a voucher for them to donate to their favourite charity. I have never received a voucher but last year I did do a festive greeting and donation.

Please google everyclick.com/christmas as I am not allowed to put links on this site yet.

Might be the kind of thing you are looking for.

Liz

lovethymini

I've just followed a link from this website and bought charity gifts for three people - go to the home page and click on "Xmas Shopping Deals" and charity gifts is at the bottom.

I chose to buy from Good Giving, and I've just donated to the Cumbrian Flood charity, but there are lots of different ones to choose from. You can do it all online but I had some questions so rang them and did it on the phone. They were really helpful and friendly.

HTH

Apricot

Haven't seen the vouchers you're on about but they have great gifts on the http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/oxfam-unwrapped site.

You can donate money for example for a kit to donate a goat to a family and they then send you a little gift card as the xmas present showing what you have bought. There are some great gifts on there starting from really cheap prices.

I have bought from there in the past and the gifts have always been very gratefully received.

lizziewizzie

Sending livestock to impoverished communities adds to the burdens of those poorest people. Not only does an animal need food, water, land and veterinary cover - all of which are in short supply in much of Africa - but they often constitute an ecological disaster with some species decimating the local environment and increasing the risk of desertification.
There are other ways to help.

charliegirl_3

Haven't seen the vouchers you're on about but they have great gifts on the http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/oxfam-unwrapped site.

I used my tesco clubcard vouchers for oxfam unwrapped presents for my parents for xmas this year - they have absolutely everything they could ever need/want and I'm trying to have a more eco-friendly caring xmas so I got the school supplies for my mum and clean water for 10 people for my dad and his girlfriend. I will give them a little "real present" on the day as well but think they will apreciate the charity ones more. I know I would be happy if someone thought I was the kind of person to prefer this as I really do not actually need anything either, my family is healthy and we get by. Its nice to be nice!

edgex

lizziewizzie wrote: »

Sending livestock to impoverished communities adds to the burdens of those poorest people. Not only does an animal need food, water, land and veterinary cover - all of which are in short supply in much of Africa - but they often constitute an ecological disaster with some species decimating the local environment and increasing the risk of desertification.
There are other ways to help.

what complete rubbish

what do you think they eat? where do you think they get milk from?
what do they use to pull a plough?