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Goodies - The Alternative Wedding List |
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Giving is receiving |
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| The Alternative Wedding List is an online wedding list service, where instead of toasters and kettles, couples sign-up to a ready-made list that contains ‘gifts’ to various charities. Your guests pick from the gifts on your list and their money goes to the charity whose gift they have chosen. |
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How does it work? |
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| The service works the same as any other online wedding
list: • Couples register online and send their guests details of where their list is held. • Guests logon to the couples list, select a gift from the wide choice available, pay via a link to HSBC’s ‘Secure Payments’ system and receive a receipt for their purchase • Couples can logon to their list to view purchases and messages from guests, and then receive a final certificate confirming how much their guests have donated to each charity. |
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Which charities are participating in the service? |
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| The following charities are already part of the service
at launch: Help the Aged Marie Curie Cancer Care Save the Children Sight Savers International. More charities are expected to join the service as we grow. |
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What do the gifts look like? |
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| Gifts range in price from £25 upwards. Each gift
purchased represents a donation to the charity whose gift a guest
has selected. Example gifts include: • £27 pays for a gift to Sight Savers International to allow them to pay for a cataract operation for a child in Bangladesh, while £50 would buy a gift to Save the Children to allow them to buy a set of winter clothes for a child in Serbia. • For £60 guests could cover the costs of a Marie Curie Cancer Care nurse for four hours in the home, or for £100 choose to buy a gift enabling Help the Aged to make an older person’s home safe and secure. |
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Who do we think the service will appeal to? |
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| There are a variety of great reasons why couples will
choose to use the service: • Couples who have everything in their homes that they could reasonably need – so many couples have lived together for some time, or have recently combined two homes into one. • Couples who are looking for something different – to stand out from the crowd. • Couples who want to feel good – what a feeling to use your big day for the benefit of others. Couples who may have thought there wasn't a list to suit them can now think again! |
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