Everyclick's E-greetings Offer Perfect Solution To Christmas Post Dilemma

PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 19, 2008 -
PRESS RELEASE


Missed the boat for Christmas post?
Everyclick e-greetings are the quickest way to send cheer this year


If you’ve checked your Christmas list twice (to see who’s been naughty or nice) and realized that you haven’t posted your cards and gifts in time for the Christmas deadline,  don’t panic!  Everyclick e-greetings and gifts offer the perfect solution.

Everyclick, the UK’s leading online charitable donation portal, has a new campaign ‘Considerate Christmas’ to encourage British citizens to send e-greetings and gifts this festive season – and delivery is instantaneous. No more missing the last post.

Everyclick provides an online Christmas greeting service that can be sent to friends, family and colleagues. Simply log on to www.everyclick.com/christmas and the sender or the recipient can choose the charity that they would like the funds to be donated to. And unlike traditional charity Christmas cards where on average only 10 per cent of the cost goes to good causes, with Everyclick up to 121 per cent of your donation goes to charity1. With more than 200,000 worthy charities to donate to there is sure to be a charity that appeals to everyone.

Buying and sending Christmas cards and gifts is both time consuming and environmentally unfriendly; every year the environmental impact of the production, distribution and disposal of traditional paper cards and gifts, not to mention other Christmas waste, is huge.

2 Billion Christmas Cards are sent in the UK each year3. That’s an average of 42 cards for every adult in the country. Put another way that’s 50,000 tonnes of cards, the equivalent of 2,500 lorry loads every Christmas (and another 2,500 rubbish truck journeys to the landfill site in January)4. All that carbon dioxide (CO2) just to say “Merry Christmas”!

Polly Gowers, founder of Everyclick said, “.  With Everyclick e-greetings and gifts, you don’t need to stress about whether the postman will arrive on time or your gift will get lost in the Christmas chaos or that you are filling up wastepaper baskets (or recycling bins). Giving through Everyclick means you can send your contacts a meaningful gift or greeting, It’s goodwill for them, it’s goodwill for a good cause and it’s goodwill for the environment.”

Got to www.everyclick.com/christmas and send your Christmas greetings.

Everyclick has raised nearly £600,000 for over 10,000 different charities. The UK public has voted Everyclick ‘Website of the Year 2008' in the competition run by MetrixLab.
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1.   As a UK taxpayer reclaiming Gift Aid. Please see Everyclick terms and conditions http://charities.everyclick.com/using-everyclick/terms-an...

2.   www.recyclenow.com

3.   "Greetings Cards", Mintel International Group Limited, Consumer and Market Report]

4.   Estimate based on 25g per card

* Dates posted on royalmail.com on 15 December

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For more information on this story, or for interview opportunities with an Everyclick representative, please contact:

Kim Hawke on 0207 549 4707 or kim@futerra.co.uk

Ashley Dow on 0207 549 4694 or ashleydow@futerra.co.uk.


Notes to editors:
•   Everyclick provides a broad range of online giving services which enable consumers to give to any charity, in the way they want.
•   Everyclick enables donations, sponsorship, appeals, gift vouchers, and free giving via web search for or all charities in UK (200k).
•   Everyclick is a Hitwise Top 10 Award winner, and winner of the Netimperative "Best Start Up of the Year" Award.
•   Polly Gowers, CEO, was the winner of the Triodos Bank sponsored "Entrepreneur of the Year" at the Women in Ethical Business Awards 2007 and a Blackberry Women in Technology Award 2008.
•   Everyclick is a finalist in the National Business Awards 2008.
•   Everyclick voted ‘Website of the Year 2008' in the competition run by MetrixLab