Marie Curie Cancer Care runs craft partnership again
Howard Lake | 19 November 2007 | News
For the third year running Marie Curie Cancer Care is working with crafter magazine and website ‘do crafts’ to encourage thousands of crafters to take part in the ‘Create a Card for Cancer Care’ campaign to raise funds for the charity.
The campaign encourages people to create hand-made cards to be sold for £1 each in Marie Curie Cancer Care Shops around the country. In the first two years of the campaign, 134,000 greeting cards have been made.
In addition, each year ‘do crafts’ create a bespoke daffodil product to sell via their stockists. In 2006 an exclusive X-Cut Punch raised £30,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care and 2007 saw sales of £31,000 with an Anita’s daffodil stamp.
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From January 2008 people will be encouraged to get creative with their friends and family and to make more cards for the campaign. A limited edition Papermania Ornate daffodil stamp will be available for £4.99 RRP with £2.50 from every sale being donated to Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, said: “The partnership has been a great success, with more than 5,000 hours of nursing care being funded so far.”
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.