easyfundraising (a no-brainer way to raise funds)

In a perfect world people wouldn’t shop at Amazon or Argos, but millions do. So sign up easyfundraising and nominate your charity.

And for each purchase from over 6000 brands (including insurance, air tickets and Booking.com), a portion of the sale is donated, at no cost to you. Loyalty points are not affected.

The big companies (like Amazon) lose a little profit for doing some good, so everyone’s a winner. Say you buy a Nintendo Switch from Argos for £290.00, your charity would get £11.60. A quick search online found that around 10 million were sold last year.

So assuming 1 million of them are sold at Argos, that’s £11 million in donations available to small charities, at no cost to any buyer. If you book a hotel for £150, your tiny charity would get £6. 

Other participants include John Lewis, eBay, Currys, Trainline and Screwfix. You can even raise money from booking taxis and trips to Alton Towers.

One small business signed up and automatically raised over £1000 for a small homeless shelter, simply by buying what they would normally buy for their office (paper, cartridges etc).

How to sign up at easyfundraising

Just sign up and find (or add) your cause, which you can change at any time. Then use the app donation reminder, so that you never miss a free donation (the app pops up to remind you when you shop).

Big charities like RSPCA have raised over £20K, so just imagine how many tiny struggling charities could benefit. Local businesses can sign up and raise money each time they replenish office cartridges, or book travel/accommodation as part of their wowrk.

For charities outside the UK (say dog shelters in Eastern Europe), you can raise funds but must have someone with a UK bank account to bank monies into, as a ‘good cause’.