# Credit for cards

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/12/01/credit-cards/
- Published: 1999-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The charity Christmas card business is now valued at £120m a year. It started in
1947, according to UNICEF, when a seven-year-old Czech girl’s thank-you card to 
UNICEF was reproduced as a greetings card and sold to supporters.
The history and
development of charity Christmas cards is featured in Card gains, by Nicola Hill,
in today’s Guardian. Unfortunately, the story is not available on their Web site.

 * **[Shutting shop for Christmas](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/12/13/shutting-shop-christmas/)**(
   13 December 1999)
 * **[Independent Christmas appeal](https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/12/12/independent-christmas-appeal-250/)**(
   12 December 2000)
 * **[Helping.Org reports 300% rise in online Christmas donations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/01/05/helpingorg-reports-300-rise-online-christmas-donations/)**(
   5 January 2001)

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