Charity & Environmental

Envirofone your old phones, but don't expect too much for it!!!

Advantages: Easy to use, good cause, good variety of ways to be paid.
Disadvantages: May lose money on phones!

Envirofone.com What is Envirofone? Envirofone is a website where you can go to recycle your old mobile phones. You know what it’s like, you update your phone every two years or so, and end up with old mobile phones sitting around your house, usually given to the kids to play with, or just shoved in a drawer and forgotten about, even though usually the phones still work and you still have the charger and battery for it, but there is nobody ...
...That’s where Envirofone come in, you can go to their website www.envirofone.com, and simply type in the make and model of your phone, and it will come up with a list of phones and you just need to find yours. A price will come up at the side what you can get UP TO for your phone, but this is NOT a definite price and you won’t find out what this price is until you send your phone off, as it all depends on how well the phone works. They encourage you ...

stephbond89 13.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of envirofone.com

Spread a little love this christmas

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...one face , thanks to Operation Christmas Child , which is organised by the Samaritans Purse charity. The concept is simple - get a shoe box, or any box of similar size, and decorate it with wrapping paper, bows, glitter - anything you like . Make it look nice and jazzy and exciting, but remember to wrap the lid and the box seperately = as the items inside will have to be checked over to check they are safe and appropriate to send. Then, select the ...
...2-4 years, 5-9 years, or 10-14 years . Also, decide if you'd prefer to send the gift to a boy or a girl. Next,select the items you'd like to include in the box - they do have to be in good condition, and preferably new. Bear in mind the boxes have some way to travel, so avoid putting in anything that may perish,leak,or melt . Also, bear in mind that many of the children receiving these gifts live in countries devasted by war, so it's always good ...

Thehonesttruth 14.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Operation Christmas Child

Please No Don't Please NOOO!!!!!

Advantages: No End
Disadvantages: Can't Help Everyone

I would today like to write about a charity and it's website that is very close to my heart and one I donate on a monthly basis to the NSPCC (National Society Protection of Cruelty to Children). In today's society it seems that more and more children are living in poverty and this can lead to child abuse in it's many forms, I am aware that not all abused children come from poor backgrounds but I tend to see many of such cases are in the poorer and ...
...unemployment and social deprivation. Putting this aside there are increasing numbers of children suffering at the hands of adults and the NSPCC does all it can with the public's help to help these children. I suffered various forms of abuse as a child as you will know from my previous bullying review this ranged from mental torture to physical abuse and I never felt that I had anywhere to turn now children have. Only a very small amount of the abuse ...

bazzaoleary77 21.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of nspcc.org.uk

Fonebank! Doesn't do what it says on the tin!!!!

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: get ripped off. Don't believe the website

Very bad service. Sent A1 condition phone with manuals and charger. Price listed was x amount and they sent a cheque 50% less listed price. There is one criteria stating that they can change the value of the phone without notice but the price listed was the same prior to the deal and after receiving the cheque! So no price change there. Two emails sent to customer support and never got a reply, i'm not going to waste time or money ringing them We ...

kentman100 13.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of fonebank.com

CLICK JUST ONCE A DAY

Advantages: saving lives, its free, its easy
Disadvantages: none other than a few seconds of your online time being used

www.thehungersite.com The hunger site is somewhere YOU can make a big difference by just the click of a button. Go to the home page and click the yellow button "Give Free Food" and you have just fed the hungry with the value of 1.1 cups of staple food. It doesn't sound much but when you consider that yesterday (25th April) 155,655 cups of staple food for the hungry worldwide were given just from people clicking that button. Now just think, it only ...
...it doesn't cost you anything other than about 3 seconds of your time, so if we all clicked that button everyday, we could make such a huge difference to peoples lives. The site is made possible by all of the sponsors who have their adverts shown on the site, which are shown once you click the "Give Free Food" button. The site says: "Your click on the "Give Free Food" button funds food for the hungry, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after ...

ilusvm 26.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of thehungersite.com