# Wedding List Giving now open to new charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/14/wedding-list-giving-now-open-new-charities/
- Published: 2005-02-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Following its pilot year in which it helped raise £25,000 from weddings for UK charities,
Wedding List Giving is opening its doors to new charities.
Holly Long, Director 
of Wedding List Giving, aims to make giving a regular and more prominent feature
of British weddings. “There are around 250,000 weddings every year in England and
Wales alone and the average wedding costs over £15,000,” she explained. “If we can
direct just a fraction of this multi-billion pound ‘industry’ to charity each year,
we will have made a huge impact.”

Wedding List Giving promotes and administers a scheme in which wedding guests donate
to a charity or charities selected by bridal couples. It has already helped raise
funds for Amnesty International, Cancer Research UK, Oxfam and Tearfund.

During its pilot year, the organisation discovered that 25% of couples opted to 
receive no gifts at all, choosing instead to invite their guests to donate all of
their intended gift budgets to charity. The remaining 75% of couples chose to have
both a traditional gift list and a donation to charity as part of their wedding.

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Wedding List Giving operates on a not-for-profit basis and has now capped its administration
fees for charities, setting a nominal sum of £50 or 5% or dontations per wedding,
whichever amount is smaller. The organisation passes information on which enables
the charities to claim gift aid.

Wedding List Giving is now enouraging other charities to take part. At the same 
time it is encouraging more couples to take part by offering a prize draw for an
anniversary weekend for two in Venice to those couples who register and use the 
service in 2005.

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