# New site offers fewer Christmas cards and more money for charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/11/29/new-site-offers-fewer-christmas-cards-and-more-money-charities/
- Published: 2007-11-29T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**New online greetings service Nocardsthanks.com is encouraging people not to send
printed Christmas cards to friends and family this year and raise funds for charity
in the process.**

The new service isn’t just for Christmas: it can be an environmentally friendly 
way for anyone to give money to charity instead of sending greetings cards, whatever
the occason.

Nocardsthanks.com, a University of Glamorgan spin-out company, enables people to
register and select not to receive greetings cards for a variety of special occasions.

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They then supply the site with a list of friends and family, from whom they wish
to receive greetings. These people are then emailed and asked to send online customised
greetings to the user and donate to a charity of their choice instead.

The cost of each online card is £2.99.

Louise Bright, founder of nocardsthanks.com said: “We really appreciated all the
lovely cards we received after the birth of our daughter, but I wondered how the
money spent on them could have been used by the Special Care Baby Unit where she
was born. As a result we came up with the idea for nocardsthanks.com.”

Support from the University of Glamorgan helped turn the idea into a commercial 
reality. It provided the company with office space, the support of a Business Manager
and funding for a small website, designed by graduates from the university, so charities
could explore the concept.

Charities using and promoting the service include BLISS, the charity for premature
babies.

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