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Other Ways To Help

Help raise donations from the comfort of your own home, whilst online shopping!

You will have heard of Amazon, more and more people are using Amazon to order items. With Amazon Smile, when you order items on the site, a portion of that will be donated to Haemochromatosis UK – here’s how to set it up...

Visit smile.amazon.co.uk and enter your normal Amazon credentials. It will then ask you to pick a charity. If you search for “Haemochromatosis UK”, we should come up! You then click on our name and from then on, Amazon Smile will donate 0.5% of the value of every sale to HUK from any future purchases you make on the smile.amazon.co.uk website! You’ll need to use Amazon Smile going forward for donations to work. There’s a useful Chrome extension that will re-direct automatically to Amazon Smile >> https://couponfollow.com/smilematic

Easy Fundraising is a great tool to sign up to, and raise funds every time you shop. You can raise funds for FREE just by shopping online, with thousands of retailers to choose from!

All you’ll need to do is visit: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/haemochromatosisuk/ and sign up to Easy Fundraising.

Once signed up, add the donation reminder: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/raisemore/donation-reminder-and-app and it will remind you every time a store supports our cause!

Give As You Live (GAYL) is a way of the charity receiving commission on your online shopping, through over 4,000 major retailers. Why not sign up as one of our supporters, it costs you absolutely nothing.

Visit https://www.giveasyoulive.com/join/haemochromatosis to sign up as a HUK supporter

You just shop the way you normally do as GAYL take care of the rest, making sure Haemochromatosis UK benefits every time you make a purchase.

Published: 28th January, 2020

Author: Neil McClements

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