Seven-year-olds set up card fundraising business for charity
Howard Lake | 22 November 2006 | Blogs
It’s always good to read about entrepreneurial fundraisers, and even better to hear that they’re starting at an ever younger age. IcSurreyOnline reports that two seven-year-old twins have set up a home-made Christmas card business to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Megan and Elizabeth O’Shea, from Redhill, are planning to produce 1,000 cards and sell them in packs of 10, with profits being donated to the charity. They’re serious: they’ve even set up a community business bank account for the business. The cards will also be sold at the Redhill branch of the Woolwich during December.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.