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Welcome to Combined Charities Christmas Shops |
Important note: the charities site is a shop window in which the individual charities can display their cards. Your orders go to the individual charities for processing, and only they can deal with queries about particular cards.
We have no central stock of cards from which to make up mixed orders for several charities. We have considered this, but the logistics are too complex for our simple volunteer organisation.
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Combined Charities Christmas Shops 1971 - 2008
Combined Charities began in 1971, with 12 participating charities. Over the last few years there have been around 60 involved in our shops, and around the same number on our web-site, but with a different selection of charities.
The internet venture, which we started in 1999, seemed a logical extension of what we were already doing:- providing a market for charities. It also allowed us to provide this to charities with no local volunteer effort to support a position in the shops.
However, two principles mark us out as different from others in this field.
1] Charities, whether in our shops or on our web-site, get 100% of their sales.
2] No-one working for Combined Charities is paid.
Perhaps, in this day and age of go-getting and making money, this is refreshing to know. The very skilled and professional team of Combined Charities do all the work for free.
Browse this site then, confident that whatever you choose, the charities are getting 100% returned to them.
We thank you all for your support, and wish you all well
Sheila Hallas MBE
Honorary Organiser
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