Planning charity Christmas fundraising campaigns... in the height of summer! You're not alone, and top tips for staying sane

It's early September and many of you charity fundraisers will be looking at Christmas campaigns in advance of the winter fundraising season. And it’s still beautiful, warm and sunny outside. Feels odd?

24 top tips for a non-commercial Christmas

Our x24 ‘advent calendar’ list of tips for reducing or cutting out much of the waste that Christmas can bring these days – as well as saving you some money.

How to write the perfect Christmas card

Let’s face it, writing Christmas cards can get a bit boring when you’ve got loads of them to do. But if you’re looking for ideas to take your Christmas card writing to the next level – without it taking hours of extra time – we’ve got a few ideas.

10 mile trail race event launched by DSMAC developer is a success

Our senior developer Jamie Howard recently organised a trail race event 'The Feighan Fury' for the first time.

He's put tremendous effort into the planning and logistics of launching an event of this kind.

New Feature – Share eCards to WhatsApp and Messenger

You can now share your e-cards directly to WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger from within the DontSendMeACard user interface!

You can also now upload your own photo to be included in your e-card and make it even more personal. 

System improvements

We've made a number of changes to improve sending e-cards with DontSendMeACard.com.

With the cost of living crisis happening, are you spending less on marking special occasions?

Ditch commercial greeting cards and save £££s for yourself, reduce paper waste, and help good causes. 

Cards to cool down inboxes

It's officially baking. So we've compiled some of the 'coolest' e-card options available to send this summer.

Switch on automatic reminders to send e-cards again the following year

You can now – at the flick of a switch – receive Occasion Reminders on DontSendMeACard. Super handy for not forgetting!

You'll be shocked when you find out how much you spend on greeting cards!

Ever wonder how much things all add up to sometimes? Well the humble greeting card surely isn't making a huge dent in your pocket is it? Think again...

Track the delivery status of your e-card sends

You can now track the delivery status of your e-card sends with DontSendMeACard – so you know that your cards and special messages have been sent and opened by recipients.

Cracking cards arrive

Children's hospital charity The Grand Appeal have teamed up with DontSendMeACard.com and brought along the much loved Wallace & Gromit within their ecard designs!

A platform for change built from your feedback

Change needs a platform. If you've secretly – or made it abundantly clear – over the years that you think cards are annoying to reciprocate, glittery, destined for the bin, overpriced bits of cardboard detritus. Then let us be your soapbox to say no more :)

Disrupting the £1.75 billion UK greeting card market by turning donations in lieu of cards into a trend

We’re actively and continually looking to take more and more people away from purchasing and sending high-street greeting cards, to donate the cost of cards and stamps instead to charity.

Shelter almost doubles expected donations with charity ecard system

Shelter made full use of online greeting card alternative DontSendMeACard.com over the festive period, fundraising almost 90% more than they originally expected.