Some support from us!

[Dan]

Had a PM from a guy on the sparky forum. He basically said, he wants to buy pens at a cost of around 50p each, and have "ElectriciansForums.co.uk" written on them. Then sell them to the members for £2 each. ALL of the profit goes to two charities. He said he wanted one of them to be a heart foundation one, and either all of the proceeds go to that, or I choose one and we split it 50/50 between two charities.

I basically said any cancer charity. So he looked at many and found a lot of their funds don't go directly to support and that he found a hospice that did use the funds well.

So he's going ahead with it!

I said he's welcome to use all the forums for this. He said he'd get the sparks one going first and then he will get on the other forums too.

A big big thanks from me. I hope you all buy a pen.

That's what I call 'keeping charities at home'.

 

[mikethetile]

nice one, ill have some tf ones when they are ready

im only here due to the sterling work done in heart research

 

[White Room]

Now that is a good idea

Maybe get a few and leave with customers

 

[Dan]

Whatever they're used for, as long as a few are bought, some good's being done.:reindeer:

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Always up for supporting a good cause

 

[david campbell]

great idea!
i'll get somewhen they come out on the tilers forum

 

[Andy Allen]

pencil me in for some or pen me in for some

cancer hopice took care of me father inlaw just b4 xmas
worth there wait in gold

 

[Dan]

electricians forums pens - Page 2 - Electricians Forum | Electrical Advice Forum | An electrical forum for electricians in the UK

Sparky forum first mate. Let phil get used to the system. But he'll be coming over here to do us soon enough. 🙂

Seemed a no-brainer to me to be honest. If you guys ever think of anything like this that supports anything similar. Then please do PM me and I'll do everything I can to help!

 

[united]

Couldn't you do this sort of thing with the TF van stickers too?

 

[Colour Republic]

Couldn't you do this sort of thing with the TF van stickers too?

the mans a genius!!!!

 

[hillhead]

Lovely idea.

 

[Colour Republic]

Dan just had a quick read and noticed he mentioned paypal, now I can't remember if it was paypal or mayber google checkout but one of them waives the processing fee if the sale is charity related, might be worth looking into as fees are normally 5%, shame to lose 10p from every sale if it can be avoided (don't have access to post of sparks forum)

 

[user123]

Dan just had a quick read and noticed he mentioned paypal, now I can't remember if it was paypal or mayber google checkout but one of them waives the processing fee if the sale is charity related, might be worth looking into as fees are normally 5%, shame to lose 10p from every sale if it can be avoided (don't have access to post of sparks forum)

Yes, I think you are right, Rob, it may only be a with a merchants account though which is no big deal to set up....