# New discussion forum for charities on saving money

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/01/15/new-discussion-forum-charities-saving-money/
- Published: 2004-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Financial journalist Martin Lewis has opened a new forum on his Moneysavingexpert.
com site to allow charities and small businesses to discuss how to save money and
reduce overheads.
The Moneysavingexpert.com site is dedicated to saving consumers
money. The new forum is called “Small Biz & Charity Organisers Money Saving”. Although
some of the tips and discussions are relevant to both for-profit and non-profit 
organisations, users are encouraged to add “CH” or “SB” to their messages’ subject
lines to help readers distinguish messages relevant specifically to charities or
to small businesses.

Paul Chatterton told UK Fundraising: “I started work for a disability charity in
London, and have been working on cutting down their overheads. For my charity I 
have already used the site to investigate cheap purchase of film equipment, how 
to make very cheap phone calls (Uk lines 1p/min, International calls – 1p/min), 
how to reduce gas/electricity costs, and how to find discounted hotel accomodation(
Travelodge currently have a £5 per night room offer!).”

There are very few “CH” messages so far, but the site does have 50,000 members. 
It has featured where charities can get low-cost or donated computers, and has also
promoted the Whizz-Kidz/EastJet click-to-give campaign, [featured](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/news.php?id=4059&rtype=news)
on UK Fundraising on 23 November 2003. Site owner Martin Lewis helpfully pointed
out that the [click-to-give campaign](http://whizzkidz.atticmedia.com) is unusual
in that it does not limit clicks to one per day per person/IP address. Instead, 
it seems that you can click many times a day, provided you leave at least a minute
between clicks.

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