Archive for June, 2009

Ways to help the Clinic online

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Easyfundraising.org.uk – shopping online to help the Clinic

We are now listed on Easyfundraising.org.uk. You can use this to help us in 2 ways!

1. This website enables any purchase you make through it to pass on a cash back donation to the City of London Migraine Clinic. There are over 600 brand names including; Amazon, M & S, John Lewis, Tesco, Direct Line Insurance, Argos, Boden, the Body Shop, Laura Ashley, B & Q, Waterstones, Vodafone, WH Smith, Dell, Tiscali, Next, PC World, HMV, Boots & Comet.

These cashback donations are made because companies wish to encourage websites to pass customers to them. The online market place is cheaper due to there being no overheads and with so many millions of people surfing websites the companies are more than willing to reward websites that pass trade to them. Easyfundraising does this and keeps a percentage for itself and passes the rest onto various good causes that join it.

If you would like to sign up at here and select The City of London Migraine Clinic as your cause, any purchase made by you as a household or a business would help us in these hard times.

If you wish to make a purchase you log on to easyfundraising and search for the company you normally use and simply click the link. The donation will then go straight to The City of London Migraine Clinic. It will cost you nothing.

2. If you wish to tell another charity about this method of fundraising, please give them our link to sign up with as we will receive 20% of what they raise.

Raise money via your internet searches with Easysearch

You can raise money for the The City of London Migraine Clinic when you search the web by using easysearch. It uses the best results from Yahoo, Windows MSN Live Search & Ask.com in one simple search.

If you want to organise an event – use Justgiving

We have registered with Justgiving, to assist any of you who wish to take part in a sponsored activity. For example we have 2 gentlemen taking part in a sponsored bike ride from London to Windsor on the 16th September. They are doing this to thank us for the care and support given to one of their young sons. Another lady is planning to take part in a sponsored run and swim to thank us for the care given to her mother. We will be including photographs of these kind and athletic supporters over the next few months. Please let us know if you feel you would like to offer support in a similar way. If you wish to set up a page for your sponsored event go to Justgiving and enter the name of the clinic the site will guide you through the set up process.

Spread the word – we are now on Youtube and Facebook

We are now on Youtube, with a number of videos about Migraine and Cluster Headaches, these are similar to the ones on our website but makes us even more accessible. So please tell others about us!

We now have a Facebook site which you, your friends and family can join. This will assist us with communication, whilst making us accessible to a larger population. Via our Facebook site you can also access out videos as well as news updates and newsletters.