Charity Awareness Days and events in April
30th March 2023
A quick look at some of the charities’ national awareness days and events coming up in April
1st – 30th April : Bowel Cancer UK – Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
1st – 30th April : Autism Together – Autism Acceptance Month
11th April : Parkinson’s UK – Parkinson’s Awareness Day
24th – 30th April : MS Society – MS Awareness Week
25th – 30th April : Allergy UK – Allergy Awareness Week
For a more comprehensive list we recommend taking a look on the online calendar on the ‘Awareness Days’ website.
Charity Awareness Days and events in March
16th February 2023
A quick look at some of the charities’ national awareness days and events coming up in March
9th March : Student Minds & UMHAN – University Mental Health Day
5th – 12th March : UK Says No More – No More Week
8th March : NHS/British Heart Foundation – No Smoking Day
17th March : Comic Relief – Red Nose Day
20th – 31st March : Sustrans – The Big Walk and Wheel
26th March : Epilepsy UK – Purple Day
For a more comprehensive list we recommend taking a look on the online calendar on the ‘Awareness Days’ website.
Donating to the Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal
10th February 2023
Several well-known charities have now launched appeals to help tackle this crisis. The Disasters Emergency Committe, which brings together 15 leading UK aid charities, raising funds to quickly and effectively respond to overseas disasters, has now launched its appeal and will be distributing funds between the charities which make it up.
To donate to the DEC appeal just go to donate your voucher in the normal way. You will then see the DEC appeal listed on the Charities page and as an option on the donation form itself.
Charity Awareness Days and Events in February
31st January 2023
A quick look at some of the charities’ national Awareness Days and events coming up in February.
1st-28th February – Scleroderma & Raynaud’s UK: Raynaud’s Awareness Month
1st-28th February – Schools OUT UK: LGBT+ History Month 2023
2nd February – MIND & Rethink Mental Illness: Time to Talk Day
6th-12th February – Sexual Abuse & Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week
6th-12th February – Tinnitus UK: Tinnitus Week
27th February-5th March – BEAT: Eating Disorders Awareness Week
For a more comprehensive list we recommend taking a look on the online calendar on the ‘Awareness Days’ website.
Anglia Giving’s Christmas Donations
29th November 2022
This Christmas, we are delighted to be able to directly support ten well-known charities operating right across the UK. And we’re particularly pleased to be able to do so to coincide with Giving Tuesday… a day which is now celebrated globally and which simply encourages more people and more companies to do more good! Over the last decade, this idea has grown into a movement that inspires millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
Although we are a relatively small organisation, run on a tight budget, we are extremely proud of what we do, and we’re very happy to be able to make these contributions to some hugely important causes. Our emphasis this year is particularly on helping the most vulnerable people in these difficult times. We try to ensure that our support goes to a wide variety of charities and, for the most part, charities we have not supported before. So, today, we have donated £1000 each to the following ten charities:
Trussell Trust – a charity which runs a UK-wide network of foodbanks providing emergency food and support to people in crisis.
Young Minds – a charity fighting for children and young people’s mental health across the UK.
Citizens Advice – the national charity and network of local charities offering confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free on a huge variety of issues, like debt and housing.
Age UK – a charity which helps millions of older people every year, providing support, companionship and advice.
NSPCC – the charity: works with schools, offers therapeutic services, runs national helplines, conducts research, campaigns for change, and provides support and advice for thousands of families, right across the UK.
Dementia UK – the specialist dementia nurse charity, provide life-changing care for families affected by all forms of dementia.
RSPCA – the world’s oldest and largest animal welfare charity, whose service is particularly under pressure as the cost of living crisis affects animal/pet owners.
Shelter – helping with homelessness and housing throughout the UK.
Marie Curie Cancer Support – a national charity providing care and support to people living with a terminal illness and those close to them.
British Red Cross – supporting people in crisis, both in the UK and also around the world.
Thank you to everyone who uses the Charity Vouchers service, enabling us to continue to raise and distribute desperately-needed money to an enormous range of good causes.
What’s new this Christmas…
6th November 2022
We’ve been working hard on getting ready for the busy festive season ahead. Here are some of the changes you may notice.
- New branding and logo
- Frozen fees
- Farewell to Freepost
- All-in-one ‘voucher-cards’
- Full range of new card designs
New branding and logo
We’re introducing a new, brighter, multi-coloured bird logo, designed to celebrate the enjoyment of giving, receiving, and donating Charity Vouchers. It’s a much more modern look which we hope you’ll love as much as we do. Our trusty old ‘white dove on a blue background’ logo had become a bit tired after many years of service but will never be forgotten! Alongside the logo, you’ll see our new ‘Small gift. Big Impact.’ strapline and, sometimes, it’s partner ‘Less Stuff. More Good.’ Both messages highlight the value for charities, as well as the sustainability, of Charity Vouchers. And then, looking forward at the new year, we’ll be bringing the new branding more fully across on to our website as well. Before we go any further, we must take this opportunity to say a huge thank-you to our friends at the wonderfully skilled and creative ‘Outlaw‘ branding and design agency, based over in Bristol, who worked on all of this for us throughout the year, at no charge! From us, and on behalf of all the charities who will benefit from your amazing work, thank you all so much!!
Frozen fees
Not exactly a ‘change’ but we have decided to delay raising our fees until after Christmas, despite an increase in our costs. In these difficult times, we felt it was particularly important to try to keep our vouchers as affordable as we possibly could for everyone.
Farewell to Freepost
We’ve finally taken the decision to bid farewell to our Freepost voucher donation option. This hasn’t been an easy decision but, the vast majority of vouchers are already being donated via our website, which is quicker than donating them by post, and this trend keeps growing year on year. As a result, most of the Freepost envelopes we were posting out with our vouchers were just ending up in the bin, which wasn’t great when we’re doing all we can to cut down our carbon footprint. Plus, the cost-saving of not having customised envelopes printed, and no longer having to pay the annual Freepost licence fee, fed into our decision on whether we could keep our 2021/22 prices unchanged until the new year. Anyone who prefers to post us their vouchers can still do so, but they will now need to put a stamp on their envelope. And, of course, anyone who has already been given a Charity Voucher which came with a Freepost Envelope will still be able to use it in the normal way, right through to October 2023.
Vouchers are now part of our posted cards
Another major change is that our vouchers are now printed into the cards themselves. Not only does this save us a bit more paper for every voucher we issue, but it also means we no longer need the plastic corner pockets or the ‘glue-dots’ we had been using to hold the vouchers in place; just one more step to making what we do, even more environmentally friendly. The change to a ‘voucher-card’ design also reflects the fact that fewer and fewer vouchers were being returned to us by post. Again, we have made sure that anyone who still wants to send their voucher in by post is still able to do so, by simply cutting along the centrefold of the card.
New card designs
Like our logo, many of our card designs had worked hard for us over several years but were in need of a well-earned rest! Once again, it is the Outlaw agency that we must thank for these amazing designs, which all reflect the new, more modern and positive image which we hope all our Charity Voucher users will love.
So that’s a quick summary of some of the changes we’ve made over recent months, and which you’ll see as you use the Charity Vouchers service. And, of course, we’ve been working hard to implement changes behind the scenes as well, which you won’t see but which are, in many ways, just as important. Between us, we want to make sure that we can raise more money than ever for all those good causes across the UK who so badly need the support of all of us. It would be great to hear from you about the improvements we’ve made. So please contact us with your thoughts and suggestions, which will be, as always, hugely welcome. We love to hear from you!
The Charity Vouchers team
Charity Awareness Days and events in November
1st November 2022
A quick look at some of the charities’ national awareness days and events coming up in November
1st-30th November : Movember Europe – Movember
2nd November : Rethink Mental Illness – National Stress Awareness Day
13th November : Kindness UK – Kindness Day UK
14th-18th November : Anti-Bullying Alliance – Reach Out : Anti-Bullying Week
14th-20th November : Brake – Road Safety Week
19th November : United Nations – World Toilet Day
25th November : White Ribbon UK – International Day for the Eradication of Violence against Women
29th November : Giving Tuesday UK – Giving Tuesday
For a more comprehensive list we recommend taking a look on the online calendar on the ‘Awareness Days’ website.
Charity Awareness Days and events in October
16th September 2022
A quick look at some of the charities’ national awareness days and events coming up in October
1st – 31st October : Breast Cancer Now – Breast Cancer Awareness Month
2nd October : London Marathon
3rd – 7th October : Bikeability Trust – Cycle to School Week
9th – 15th October : Various – Baby Loss Awareness Week
18th October : Slave Free Alliance – Anti-Slavery Day
For a more comprehensive list we recommend taking a look on the online calendar on the ‘Awareness Days’ website.
Charity Awareness Days and events in September
17th August 2022
A quick look at some of the charities’ national awareness days and events coming up in September
1st-30th September : Soil Association – Organic September
12th–18th September : Brook – Sexual Health Week
13th–18th September : Orchid – Orchid Male Cancer Awareness Week 2022
13th–18th September : National Eczema Society – National Eczema Week
22nd September : Living Streets – World Car Free Day
18th-24th September : Ménière’s Society – Balance Awareness Week
For a more comprehensive list we recommend taking a look on the online calendar on the ‘Awareness Days’ website.
Charity Awareness Days and events in July
22nd June 2022
A quick look at some of the charities’ national awareness days and events coming up in July
25 July : Rethink – National Schizophrenia Awareness Day
27th July : Samaritans – Talk to us
For a more comprehensive list we recommend taking a look on the online calendar on the ‘Awareness Days’ website.
