# Gift Aid to be reclaimed on donated mobile phones and cartridges

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/09/21/gift-aid-be-reclaimed-donated-mobile-phones-and-cartridges/
- Published: 2006-09-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Recycling service Environmental Business Products Ltd (EBP) has established EBP
Gateway, a method that enables charities to reclaim Gift Aid on donated mobile phones
and empty printer cartridges where previously it was not available.**

EBP’s charity partners can now claim Gift Aid on items that come to EBP via their
supporters for recycling as part of the company’s fundraising schemes.

There is no extra charge by EBP to facilitate this new option for charities. All
the company asks is that their Freepost collection envelopes and boxes are distributed
as widely as possible, and that charity supporters are encouraged to donate what
otherwise would be thrown away.

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This new initiative was hinted at by EBP when they presented at a recent UK Fundraising
Perfect Pitch.

London-based EBP now has a turnover of £25 million and collects waste printer cartridges
and mobile phones from 12 countries, supporting over 50 charities.

So far it has raised £350,000 for Tommy’s, the baby charity, and each year it raises
around £500,000 for charities including Coeliac UK, Guide Dogs, PDSA, Save the Children,
Stroke Association and the Zoological Society of London.

Because of high demand for the cartridges it remanufactures, recently judged by 
Which? Magazine as “the only ones to match the quality of printer company brands”,
EBP is always looking for new charity partners.

For details contact David Alder or Sadate Shipkolye on 020 8838 6888.

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