Everyclick.com finalist in The Daily Telegraph Business Personality Awards
Howard Lake | 25 January 2007 | Newswire
Everyclick.com, the search engine that helps charity, is one of the finalists for The Jaeger-LeCoultre Daily Telegraph Business Personality of the Year Awards 2006.
Damian Reece, the City Editor of The Daily Telegraph said We were looking for people who had left the comfort zone of a salaried position to start their own business or who had overcome disabilities or who were not only generous with their money but also their time.â€
The founders of everyclick have put their homes on the line to support this fundraising venture. Everyclick.com gives 50% of its gross revenue to the charity of the users’ choice. There is no cost to the user or the charity and the website enables you to select your favorite charity from the 170,000 that are registered in the UK.
Polly Gowers, CEO of everyclick.com said We are determined to turn the internet into a sustainable fundraising mechanism for any charity. Every internet user has the potential to revenue for the charity of their choice just by changing the way they search.â€
Everyclick’s founders are amongst personalities such as Sir John Harvey-Jones, Peter Birch, John Bird and inventors James Dyson and Trevor Bayliss in competition for this award. Everyclick.com has already raised over £120,000 for charity and at the current rate of growth projections suggest this could exceed £1million by the end of 2007.
-ends-
For further press information, please contact: Emma Walton,
Email:
em**@ev********.com
Tel: +44 (0)1608 653 024
Images and all press releases are available for download at
http://www.everyclick.com/uk/myeveryclick/press-resources
Page 2 – www.everyclick.com Notes to Editors:
How much can Everyclick.com raise for charity?
On average each search on Everyclick.com generates around 1 pence for the designated charity or school.
An average user does 40 searches per month – this means that:
A charity with 100 supporters can generate an estimated £480 per annum.
A charity with 1000 supporters can generate an estimated £4,800 per annum.
A charity with 10,000 supporters can generate an estimated £48,000 per annum.
• Everyclick.com is a search engine that has been purpose built to automatically donate 50% of its revenue to charity every month.
• The site is free to join and free to use.
• Through a groundbreaking agreement with Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) everyclick.com offers users the ability to support any of the 170, 000 UK charities. The site has delivered more than 19 million searches.
• Most people don’t realise that every time they search the web, they’re generating cash. Everyclick.com has been set up to make sure some of this money benefits charity.
• It behaves just like any other search engine, providing full search results powered by Ask, images, news feeds and special features such as Amazon product listings.
• The money is allocated by intelligent software and is distributed to charities every month by CAF.
• Companies such as The London Stock Exchange, Cadbury Schweppes and Axa Fund Managers have started to adopt Everyclick as part of their ongoing CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programs.
• Everyclick.com was launched in June 2005 by Polly Gowers (ex-international sports woman) and Julia Felton (ex-teacher).
• In 2006 Everyclick.com was a finalist in the following business awards; The Telegraph-Jaeger LeCoultre Business Personality of the Year, HSBC Start-Up Awards, British Business Awards (two categories) and The Net Imperative Digital Awards – Hottest New Start Up.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.