New online shopping site promises 75% of turnover to charities
Howard Lake | 8 October 2008 | News
A new online shopping site has launched with the promise of donating 75 per cent of its entire revenue to charitable organisations.
www.agoodcause.co.uk has signed up more than 40 charities in the UK to support including Help the Aged, Marie Curie Cancer Care and Christian Aid.
The system involves downloading a piece of freeware called AidMaker through which you can select a cause to support and shop at one of the site’s 600 partner stores. Customers pay the normal price for goods, but the retailer donates a part of the total purchase price to the chosen cause. If people elect not to download the freeware, they can still shop, but the money will be distributed equally between all the charities.
www.agoodcause.com has been operational in Scandinavia for more than two years and currently works in eight countries including Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, France and the US. It works with 700 charities globally but has local retailers for each country and a local focus to the site.
www.agoodcause.co.uk
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.