Scrap Cars For Charity
This is a guest post by Daniel Frank. Thanks to Daniel.
There are a huge number of charities offering support and care for people with disabilities, these range from small local charities such as East Anglia Children’s Hospice (EACH) to large national and international bodies such as Sightsavers. These charities offer a huge range of services that are unfortunately needed more than ever. At Giveacar we are proud to support several of these charities offering services from training guide dogs, to medical aid and sports clubs.
All charities need donations and we offer a new way to give to charity. The basic idea behind Giveacar is to offer a scrap car collection service. However instead of giving the money from scrapping a car to the donor, we instead give it to their chosen charity. Established for just over a year we can get better price for cars from scrap yards than the general public due to the volume we deal with thanks to generous donors from all around the country.
In fact some of the cars we get are so good we can put them up for auction, giving us the chance to raise even more for the donor’s charity. We use two different types of auction depending upon which we think will raise the most money, either an online car salvage auction or a physical market auction to ensure the best value.
As a social enterprise we take no funding from government, instead taking a 25% administration fee from each car we collect. So a car donated to Aspire which sells for £100 will raise £75 for the charity.
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