# ActionAid's social networking site adds ethical wedding list service

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/02/27/actionaid039s-social-networking-site-adds-ethical-wedding-list-service/
- Published: 2007-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

International development agency ActionAid has launched an ethical wedding list 
to help brides and grooms avoid a stack of unwanted presents while encouraging guests
to spend money on donations instead. The service is part of the charity’s newly 
launched social networking site MyActionAid.org.uk.
ActionAid’s alternative wedding
list includes textbooks for five children in Afghanistan for one term at £15, and
nutritious porridge for one year for 14 Aids orphans in Malawi for £75.

ActionAid provides the happy couple with specially designed wedding list cards to
send out with their invitations, which list examples of what can be achieved for
the price of a wedding present and explains how guests can donate.

It can all be organised online at MyActionAid.org.uk where couples can set up their
own wedding page complete with photo albums, blogs and a facility to receive and
track donations.

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Closer to the big day the wedding couple then receive a certificate with the total
amount raised and a personal message from ActionAid to read out at the reception.

ActionAid fundraising spokesperson Helen Yeomans helped create ActionAid Wedding
Lists and has just set up her own list ahead of her wedding.

She said: “My boyfriend recently popped the question, but as we’ve been living together
for a while we have enough kettles, toasters and saucepans to last a lifetime so
we’d really like people to donate to ActionAid instead. We’ve set up our own wedding
page online.”

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