We received an email today from a business organisation who were looking to make a contibution to charity instead of sending Christmas cards. I’m happy to say you can do both at the same time! UNICEF Christmas Cards are a great way of sending seasons greetings to clients, co-workers or even friends whilst still making a donation to a good cause. In fact Xmas can be a difficult time as we spends hundreds of pounds on gifts that may never be actually used (socks and christmas jumpers anyone?) but you can buy a gift and make a difference by purchasing through a charity programme.

We have launched a new site which brings together the main providers of Charity Gifts to help you find a cause that you want to support that offer a gift programme. This is a great way to make a donation to charity - and also show loved ones that you care for them as they will be notified that you have purchased a charity gift in their name. The gifts range from buying a toilet (which is put to use in the country where the charity is working!) to adopt an animal programmes where the recipient receives a gift pack - in the case of the WWF including a cuddly toy, my Nan loved it!!!

>> Click here to buy Charity Christmas Cards from UNICEF

>> Click here to read more about the UNICEF Charity Gift Shop

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There’s an interesting story that appeared on the Donation4Charity radar today….. about scientists at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).  They’ve been studying some unprotected areas of Sumatran forests that has recently been allocated to clearance for plantation forest and they’ve discovered that this area is ’safe-haven’ to a variety of threatened species, including tigers, elephants, tapirs, golden cats, clouded leopards and Malayan sun bears. 

And it was the sun bear aspect of the story that particularly caught our notice because the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos Malayanus) is undoubtedly one of the least well known of the eight bear species in the world.  Also known as the dog bear or honey bear, after its love of honey, it’s the smallest of the eight bear species - Asiatic black bear, spectacled bear, American black bear, giant panda, sloth bear, polar bear, and brown bear being the rest of the world-bear-list. (more…)

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