i wanna donate to charity using sms

Jefft_2

The Down Syndrome Educational Trust

To donate £3 to downsed, text DOW to 84858*

*Messages charged at standard rate. You will receive two confirmation messages, charged at £1.50 each. downsed will receive the donation net of charges applied by mobile network operators and a processing fee

pfpf

hi. posted this in another thread aswell but i am eager for an answer.


well i sent 4 texts to the Poppy appeal last night so thought i had given £6.00. checked my easy online balance today to find the 4 texts had cost me a total of 40p.

i couldnt download whatever it was they were trying to send me, but i had assumed they would get their money!!

any advice?

Wesker

pfpf wrote:

hi. posted this in another thread aswell but i am eager for an answer.


well i sent 4 texts to the Poppy appeal last night so thought i had given £6.00. checked my easy online balance today to find the 4 texts had cost me a total of 40p.

i couldnt download whatever it was they were trying to send me, but i had assumed they would get their money!!

any advice?

I donated twice to the Poppy appeal and also couldnt download the wallpaper, but the money was taken from my balance so i'm happy. I'm on O2 btw

Road_Hog

pfpf wrote:

hi. posted this in another thread aswell but i am eager for an answer.


well i sent 4 texts to the Poppy appeal last night so thought i had given £6.00. checked my easy online balance today to find the 4 texts had cost me a total of 40p.

i couldnt download whatever it was they were trying to send me, but i had assumed they would get their money!!

any advice?

See my answer in the other post.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=3474280&posted=1#post3474280

Rogerb_2

Jefft wrote:

The Down Syndrome Educational Trust

To donate £3 to downsed, text DOW to 84858*

*Messages charged at standard rate. You will receive two confirmation messages, charged at £1.50 each. downsed will receive the donation net of charges applied by mobile network operators and a processing fee

Down Syndrome donation collected ok, but Poppy I think, needed the download to work to be able to collect. For whatever reason I had the same problem as other posters as the donation was never collected.

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pfpf

come on guys, lets get this one going.

i have now tried to donate £6.00 to the Poppy appeal and £3.00 to the Yorkshire air Ambulance. neither has worked and i am trying to use up my Easy Mobile credits (about £120.00 worth).

can can we get this thread rolling on who has actually donated successfully using Easy without the need for autotopup or anything else.

times running out, and i would hate the credits to be wasted.

competitionscafe

These ones might work for charity text donations?

The Down Syndrome Educational Trust (which Rogerb above said was collected okay) and the others below; all seem to use the same number 84858 (with a different text message to identify each charity obviously - so if one works then all of them should be okay?)

I tried sightsavers and it did not work either but Sightsavers, Poppy Appeal and some of the others use a different number to 84858, perhaps that's why they didn't work?

Try The Down Syndrome Educational Trust or one of the other ones below which all use 84858?

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The Down Syndrome Educational Trust

To donate £3 to downsed, text DOW to 84858

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You can now make a donation to SANDS from your mobile phone!

It's very simple, and you can do it on the move.

How does it work?

To make a £3 donation...

simply text the word SANDS to the number 84858
http://www.fundraisingforsands.org/text.htm
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You can now donate to Save the Rhino by text message!

Donating by text is really easy. Just text the three-letter word RHI to 84858 - each text costs a fixed charge of £3.

Once you send your text, you'll get two messages to confirm it's been successful. (It doesn't matter if you use capital or lower-case letters.) It's easy, secure and costs just £3.

So if you just want to give Save the Rhino a bit of a helping hand, and you don't want to go through the rigmarole of writing and posting us a cheque - just text RHI to 84858.
http://www.savetherhino.org/etargetsrinm/site/789/default.aspx

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Donate by Text Message

You can now support Dogs for the Disabled from your mobile phone simply by sending a text message. Simply follow the directions below in order to give £3.00 to Dogs for the Disabled.

To Donate £3 to Dogs for the Disabled Text DOG to 84858
http://www.dogsforthedisabled.org/waystodonate.php

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Meningitis Research Foundation: Donate by sms text

Text to donate Donating by sms text to support Meningitis Research Foundation's work is quick, simple and easy.

* If you live in the UK, to donate £3 to Meningitis Research Foundation text LIFE to 83338
http://www.meningitis.org/sect4/subsect1/page5
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Ataxia UK: By text

To donate £3 to Ataxia UK please text 'ATAX' to 84858. This is a one off donation, and you may do this as many times as you like!

You will receive two text messages in return, each charged at £1.50 to your mobile phone bill or pre paid account.
http://www.ataxia.org.uk/page.builder/donate.html
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Ockenden International
To Donate £3 to Ockenden International by text just Text OCKY to 84858
"Ockenden International is well known for the high quality of its work in very remote and challenging locations"
Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
http://www.ockenden.org.uk/index.asp?id=1205

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Against Breast Cancer : Donate by sms text

Donating by sms text to support Against Breast Cancer's into the secondary spread of breast cancer research work is quick, simple and easy.

* If you live in the UK, to donate £3 to Against Breast Cancer Text BREAST to 84858
http://www.aabc.org.uk/donate/text.shtml

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Cambodia Charity Trust
Donate by SMS! (UK only)

You can now make a donation from your mobile phone. Just text WALK to 84858 to make a £3 donation. You will receive two SMS messages back, confirming your donation.

http://www.cambodiatrust.com/donation.htm

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Epilepsy
https://www.epilepsynse.org.uk. Registered Charity Number 206186. Thumbs Up! Give finding a cure for epilepsy. the Thumbs Up! Text ‘NSE’ to 84858. to donate £3
http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/PAGES/pdf/thumbsup.pdf

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The Hospice of St. Francis
We are pleased to announce a new facility where you can donate to the Hospice via Justgiving SMS.

To Donate £3 to The Hospice of St. Francis

Just text HSF to 84858

Messages are charged at the standard rate. You will receive two confirmation messages, charged at £1.50 each.
This, in effect, is your £3 donation, no other charges will be made on your account.

The Hospice of St. Francis will receive your donation net of charges applied by mobile network operators and a processing fee. If you have any questions regarding this service, please call 020-7549-2222.
http://www.stfrancis.org.uk/donations/sms_donations.htm

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Sense Scotland: Why your support is so valuable

Sense Scotland: We rely a great deal on the generosity of the general public to continue much of our work. You can help us make a difference in peoples' lives in a number of ways. Support Sense Scotland by donating £3 by text, simply text Sense to 84858
Sense Scotland raises much-needed funds to help develop services for severely disabled children and adults, and their families.
http://www.sensescotland.org.uk/fundraising/index.php

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Looks like the 84858 text donation service is run by Justgiving SMS:
http://www.justgiving.com/design/93/sms/why_choose.asp

There are many more charities who accept text donations, so take your pick of a charity:

http://www.justgiving.com/Process/CharityGuide/default.asp
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=donate+text+%22to+84858%22&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB[/QUOTE]

Rogerb_2

Thanks for above post - makes the choosing a lot easier.

Successful for me ( prior to looking at above post )

Down Syndrome
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
Children in need

Doesn't look hopeful ( after a reasonable time lapse )

Poppy
Sightsavers
MacMillan Cancer
Obsessive compulsive disorder ( since original posting this collected )

pfpf

Rogerb wrote:

Thanks for above post - makes the choosing a lot easier.

Successful for me ( prior to looking at above post )

Down Syndrome
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
Children in need

Doesn't look hopeful ( after a reasonable time lapse )

Poppy
Sightsavers
MacMillan Cancer
Obsessive compulsive disorder

Yorkshire Air Ambulance worked for you? i tried the £3.00 donation and it didnt

thanks for the posts guys, i will give it a try.



this may sound dumb, but i am a text halfwitt. when it says text a word eg BREAST does it have to be in CAPITALS? i have a nokia and dont know how make all letters UPPERCASE i would send Breast for example....does it make any difference? all the texts i have sent have charged to my account at around 10p

Rogerb_2

pfpf wrote:

this may sound dumb, but i am a text halfwitt. when it says text a word eg BREAST does it have to be in CAPITALS? i have a nokia and dont know how make all letters UPPERCASE i would send Breast for example....does it amke any difference? all the tests i have sent have charged to my account at around 10p

Shouldn't be necessary to be in capitals but I did just in case. On my nokia to get capitals you press the bottom right hand # key six times watching the top left of screen for alpha characters to change. This will take you out of predictive text mode assuming you are in it - if not using predictive text its likely less key pressing is needed but watch the screen for capital letters and mode change.
The 10p is in addition to a successful £3 donation, a total of £3.10 ish