Online shopping = easy donations to Goodrich School

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I'm posting this in hopes that it will be a useful reminder for people starting (or finishing!) their holiday shopping. You can make a free and easy donation to Goodrich, or many other worthwhile causes, almost every time you shop online by signing up with www.easyfundraising.org.uk. It only takes a few minutes to sign up (for Goodrich, select "Friends of Goodrich Primary School - London"). And, if you sign up and shop on a computer instead of a smartphone or tablet, you can use the "find and remind" function, which automatically alerts you when you go to a participating retailer's website. The size of the retailers' contributions vary, but it's often something like 1-4% of what you spend, which isn't necessarily a small amount of money this time of the year!

I've discovered that almost everyone I regularly buy online from is on the site -- Amazon, Argos, Ebay, Next, M&S, Tesco, Ocado, John Lewis, Vertbaudet. etc -- and am annoyed that it's taken me so long to sign up. The donations are free money for the school (or whatever cause you choose to support), since you are only buying things you'd planned to buy anyways and the donations come out of the retailer's pocket. If they're out there giving away money, you may as well make sure it goes to an organisation you care about.