# Prepaid card to benefit Demelza Hospice Care for Children

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/04/14/prepaid-card-benefit-demelza-hospice-care-children/
- Published: 2009-04-14T07:35:27+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Demelza Hospice Care for Children is to receive income from a new prepaid MasterCard
® card from M-Cube and Newcastle Building Society.**

Prepaid solutions provider [M-Cube](http://www.m-cube.co.uk) will donate 100% of
its profits from cardholder transactions to directly benefit the hospice. It has
also pledged to bear all other suppliers’ costs in order for the charity to benefit
as soon as people start using the Demelza Prepaid Card. In addition, [Newcastle Building Society](http://www.newcastle.co.uk),
the issuing bank behind the scheme, has waived its usual start up costs associated
with setting up a prepaid card.

By purchasing the Demelza Prepaid card users can benefit from discounts from a wide
array of retailers, leisure centres, theatres and other organisations, cash back
rewards on selected purchases, £2,000 worth of days out vouchers, three free magazines,
two months of free DVD rentals, and other offers.

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Prepaid cards are designed to offer a way “to control and manage spending”. The 
card can be topped up like a mobile phone and used like a debit card, in any outlet
where MasterCard is accepted.

Kriya Patel, Head of Card Solutions at Newcastle Building Society, said: “As a mutual
building society we aim to be a socially responsible organisation, so when M-Cube
approached us about the Demelza card we were happy to donate our services and time.”

www.demelzaprepaid.com

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