i wanna donate to charity using sms

HMurray

Donate to the British Red Cross using your mobile phone and PayPal.

http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=70514

To donate by text message:

• Set up a PayPal account and activate your phone
• Already have a PayPal account? Activate your phone at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_mobile-activate-outside
• Then text FLOODS with the donation amount to 64483 e.g. to donate £10 just text FLOODS 10

JackRS

This one's linked to Cancer ResearchUK and National Kidney Foundation, but it's only one text per phone and 25p?

see details on www.justgiving.com/RoySteel

Just have to text: boards x roy to 60300, you get a message back thanking you.

Wesker

I just found another one

The Army Benevolent Fund

http://www.armybenfund.org/how_you_can_help/donate.html


To donate £3 to the ABF, text ABF to 84858.

Messages are charged at standard rate. You will receive two confirmation messages, charged at £1.50 each. The ABF will receive your donation net of charges applied by mobile phone operators and a processing fee. If you have any questions regarding this service, please call 0207 549 2222.

purplestar1uk

Wanted to bump up this thread as I have a lot of excess credit on my phone at the moment. I've donated to Women's Aid and the Pakistan Flood Appeal by text so far. I'm not sure how many of the ones mentioned previously in this thread are still going, but if anyone knows of any more recent ones, do add them here

purplestar1uk

Make a Text Message Donation to the World Land Trust
To help World Land Trust (charity reg no. 1001291) in our vital work to save threatened wildlife habitats worldwide, text WLT to 84424.
(£3 will be deducted from your mobile account. Service available in the UK only.)
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/sms.htm

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Donate by text and help Women’s Aid to protect women and children affected by domestic violence

You can now make a donation to Women’s Aid quickly and easily, wherever you are, with our new SMS text donation facility, Text 2 Protect.


To donate £3 to Women’s Aid simply text the word ACT to 84424*.

http://www.womensaid.org.uk/landing_page.asp?section=00010001000700010004

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Disasters Emergency Committee Pakistan Flood Appeal

Text 70707 with the word GIVE to donate £5. A standard network rate charge will apply.

http://www.dec.org.uk/donate_now/

ilikepoints

I'd encourage people to give to any of the organisations listed other than Women's Aid. I'm sure they do some good work, but I really don't think it's right to refuse to help vicitms because of their gender and to play politics with the issue of domestic violence. I suggest people read up on the early history of Women's Aid / Refuge to find out more about them. We've had previous discussions about those organisations in this forum and the consensus was that we should support domestic violence charities who help victims irrespective of gender, age or race.

If you do want to help domestic violence vicitms there are now some far, far better organisations out there out there who don't have a hidden agenda. I'd recommend the National Center for Domestic Violence http://www.ncdv.org.uk/ although I don't think you can donate via sms unfortunately.

There's also a former branch of Women's Aid in Wales who were kicked out of the Women's Aid Federation for helping men. So it would be good to support them too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/8495332.stm

Alan_Perdrix

You can donate £3 to UNICEF's Pakistan Flood Children's Appeal (see http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/news_detail_full_story.asp?news_id=1567)

Simply text 'FLOOD' or 'FLOODS' to 70099 to make a £3 donation to our appeal.

All Orange and T-Mobile customers can also give £2.50 directly to our appeal by texting the word DONATE to 864233. (Orange and T-Mobile customers can also donate by texting 'FLOOD' or 'FLOODS' to 70099).

Alan_Perdrix

Couple more :

£5 to EllenorLions Hospices (see http://www.locallifedesign.co.uk/clients/lionshospice/index.asp?textpage=home&mainpage=home)

Text YES to 70700 to donate £5 now!

£5 to the Gumpathon (see http://www.thegumpathon.com/index.php?page=Terms-and-Conditions)

Please ensure you spell the SMS keyword carefully - ‘ GUMP’ - and send your text message to the correct shortcode; 70800.

All money raised from the Gumpathon will go towards helping these people through the work of three charities: Help for Heroes (H4H), the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund and the US Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. All three raise funds to support wounded and ill members of the Armed Forces, and their families, throughout their recovery period.

BAILEYS6904

Oh word of warning on this, with text donations, the networks generally end up with quite a large proportion of the actual donation, so on 'normal' shortcodes (5 digit number), the cause can sometimes only get about 55-60% of the fee charged.

The networks have started to change things, and are now doing 'charity' shortcodes, where their cut is lower than normal, but may be worth looking to see what money is actually hitting the charity in question

HTH xx

ahai1

Epilepsy Research Uk

Donate by texting 'ERUK20' and the amount you wish to give (£1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10) to 70070.

http://www.epilepsyresearch.org.uk/givenow.htm

BTW if the charity is not accepting text donations contact them.