An estimated £50 million is generated for hundreds of good causes every year
In the UK, the sale of greeting cards is the number one charity fundraiser at Christmas. More funds are raised by the sale of charity cards than by any other individual product.
Where the charity publishes and sells the cards, the gains are high, though like any retail operation there are risks, as it involves up front investment costs to run trading operations. Charities purchase their own-branded cards and sell their range through their own shops, manned by volunteers, through mail order and on-line. Of the hundreds of thousands of charities in the UK, only a very small percentage of the charities have the resources and customer support to run their own shops and/or mail order catalogues.
However the benefits to these Charities are immense, with all profits going to the charity from their trading company (charities are not allowed to be involved in commerce themselves).
Judges and Sampsons has become a leading supplier of Christmas cards to Charities large and small, with the added benefit of offering short run (as little as 50 packs per design!) for smaller Charities. Our designs consistently appear in our customers’ best seller lists, with the only limitations in creating bespoke Christmas cards being your imagination.
Some festive fundraising ideas include:
• Making Christmas decorations or crafts
• Christmas baking
• Carol singing in the local area
• Calendars (of the local community)
Any of these ideas could take place at a Christmas fete that you could organise.
Contact Judges on 01424 420919 to request our current brochure, which includes more fundraising ideas, as well as our 2011 Charity Christmas cards.
For a local needy cause I would like to produce and sell a Christmas card in packs of 10 all with an image that was the copyright of Exclusive cards, bought over by Whiteholme of Dundee and then by yourselves more recently. Would this be possible? I look froward to hearing from you,
Lorna Byrne