Card Aid is an initiative of the Charities Advisory Trust, a registered charity, committed to helping charities trade more effectively.
Its purpose is to help charities make money from Christmas cards.
We are very happy to offer impartial advice on whether it would be beneficial to become involved in Christmas card trading. With information about your supporter base and shop sales, we can offer advice on best selling designs and about the quantity and range of cards that would be most suitable for you. Experience suggests that if you cannot sell 500 packs, a Christmas card operation is not cost effective. Christmas cards are not an appropriate fundraising method for all charities.
We are running 2 half day Masterclasses on Making Money From Charity Christmas Cards on 2nd & 9th March 2010. Please contact Melissa on 020 7433 3636 or email marketing@charitiesadvisorytrust.org.uk for more information.
If you order your cards through Card Aid you become a member of the Card Aid family and can sell your cards in our Card Aid Shops
Your charity can select any design from our huge range of designs.
Alternatively you can supply your own design.
All prices include:
Card Aid has really helped us raise our income. We have ordered different Christmas card designs each year since 2004 and the number of designs and cards ordered has gone up every year in line with the increasing demand from our supporters. Even before we started trading cards ourselves, Card Aid sold cards in support of the Medical Foundation in their shops and donated 25% of the sales to us, thereby raising thousands of pounds for our work. The service we have received over the years has always been brilliant and very efficient. Our supporters love the cards and we are already looking forward to the new designs for next year.Charity Christmas cards
As a relatively small charity Card Aid's charity shops provide a fantastic opportunity for AMREF to sell our cards to a wider audience, that we could otherwise not reach. It also provides a very welcome boost to our Christmas card income.
The staff at Card Aid have given us invaluable advice on the designs of our cards, steering us towards the cards that would sell best in their shops as well as appeal to our supporters. The service they provide, printing and packaging the cards, has enabled us to have three different designs each Christmas, something which as a small charity with no administrative staff we would have found difficult to do ourselves. The membership scheme, whereby we have sold 25% of our cards through the Card Aid shops, has worked brilliantly for us – our designs have always sold out in the shops and the income generated has been really important to us. The generous donation of income from the donated overs has made our partnership even more worthwhile financially.
The Card Aid scheme has been perfect for Jo’s Trust. As a small charity it has enabled us to raise our profile with our supporters by providing them with a really attractive selection of cards and at the same time raise significant funds for our cause. I would highly recommend Card Aid to any charity with similar aims to our own and wish them well for the future.
CPRE have worked with Card Aid for seven years and are always impressed by the personal, friendly service and good advice that is provided. Card Aid's knowledge of the charity Christmas card market is an invaluable resource. The option to sell charity cards in Card Aid shops over the Christmas season is especially useful for widening the appeal of a charity and for smaller charities that do not have the resources to sell high numbers of cards independently. Furthermore, CPRE have been very grateful to Card Aid for the ‘donated overs’ scheme which adds significant value to our merchandise operation. As an environmental organisation, Card Aid’s resolve to use only British printers is especially important to CPRE.
I love your cards...I cant wait to order from you next year.
I have been most impressed with the service provided by Card Aid.
I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending this fine organisation to others.Charity Christmas cards
I was so impressed by your speedy & professional response, (unlike so many of the “professional” i.e. non-charity card manufacturers I am experiencing at the present!) Thank you.
…for the past few years we have placed an order for our Christmas cards and have had a very satisfactory service.
We have ordered our Christmas cards from you for some years now and I would be very disappointed to go elsewhere as I know that we always get a first class service from Card Aid.
I'd just like to thank you for such wonderful service. I thought that by the time the cards arrived I'd have pretty much sent mine out and these would keep for next year. How wrong I was! Ordered 2.30pm on Friday, arrived here 9am Saturday. It doesn't get better than that. I've bookmarked your site and I'll certainly be back.
I so enjoyed reading about the different charities with each card that you were supporting and that, along with your beautiful cards, is why I wanted to bring my business to you.