Youthnet to benefit from virtual pennies
Howard Lake | 19 February 2008 | News
Users of e-commerce cash payment service Ukash are being encouraged to donate their spare digital pennies to Youthnet to fund its two sites for young people, TheSite.org and do-it.org.uk.
People can donate the change from their Ukash vouchers to YouthNet and other charities through a newly introduced function on the Ukash website.
“The pennies can soon mount up”, said Mark Chirnside, CEO of Ukash. “If everyone donated the 1p change from their £9.99 purchase made using Ukash we could raise thousands of pounds a year for our partner charities.”
The charity is working with Ukash, the that introduced cash payments to global online transactions, to raise funds to support its two websites.
Ukash, a FSA-accredited company, issues cash vouchers for consumers in the UK and Europe to purchase goods and services online. The purchases are sometimes for a lower amount of money than the value of the vouchers, and Ukash will enable consumers to donate the ‘change’ that results from spending the voucher.
The voucher is given out in exchange for cash and comes with a unique 19 digit number that is entered, like a debit card number, when spending online.
www.ukash.com
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.