# E-card venture lets people donate the cost of a printed card

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/12/01/e-card-venture-lets-people-donate-the-cost-of-a-printed-card/
- Published: 2015-12-01T09:00:05+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A new e-card venture is helping charities raise funds by letting people send out
e-cards, and donate the cost of a printed card and stamp.**

[DontSendMeACard.com](http://www.dontsendmeacard.com/) has partnered with more than
20 charities so far, including [British Deaf Association](http://www.bda.org.uk/),
[The Honeypot Children’s Charity](http://www.honeypot.org.uk/) and the [Royal Life Saving Society UK](http://www.rlss.org.uk/).

The company claims to give 110% of the cost of a card to the chosen charity. Consumers
are invited to choose a charity, compose an e-card, and then donate the amount that
was budgeted for a greeting card for that occasion. The e-card recipient sees that
the sender donated, and is invited to do the same.

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The website was founded by a collaborative of Exeter-based web designers and developers
including Alex Furness of [Future Imaging](http://www.futureimaging.co.uk/), and
web solutions provider [Web Engineer](http://www.web-engineer.co.uk), and is supported
by the [Seedbed Accelerator](http://seedbedenterprise.co.uk) programme at The Dartington
Hall Trust.

Furness said:

> “DontSendMeACard is able to typically give 110% of the original amount donated
> to the charity after processing fees and Gift Aid. Our ultimate objective is for
> our users to create a follow-on effect of e-cards and donations. By one person
> deciding that this is a good idea, it results in their network seeing that they
> donated and being invited to do the same.”

According to the Greetings Card Association, [£1.6 billion](http://www.greetingcardassociation.org.uk/resources/for-publishers/the-market/facts-and-figures)
was spent on greetings cards last year, with the Christmas boxed card category worth
£200 million, and sales of single Christmas cards valued at  £174.6 million in 2014.

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   26 May 2016)

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