Support from your sofa
Have you tried being a sofa supporter?
With so many of our normal activities on hold right now, we appreciate how hard it is trying to support your favourite charity or thinking of ways to raise money for us.
We need your support more than ever and it couldn’t be easier to make a difference- all from the comfort of your sofa.
You can support us just by doing your normal weekly shopping or spoiling yourself with something new. By treating your cat or pampering your dog. You could round-up the pennies to pounds, or give yourself the chance to win a great prize!
Go on… provide support from your sofa.
If you have any suggestions of other ways to support from your sofa, or companies we could work with, please email us.
Shop
Amazon Smile is a brilliant initiative run by Amazon that donates 0.5 per cent of a customer's eligible purchases to a charity of their choice.
All you need to do is simply log into your Amazon account through the Amazon Smile website, select Blue Cross as your charitable organisation and shop as normal. In 2020 customers raised over £14,000 for Blue Cross through Amazon Smile. Amazing!
Kindred is a web browser extension you simply add to your devices and then you do your shopping as normal. Kindred offers deals at over 25,000 participating stores and gives you the opportunity to donate your cashback to charity.
Savoo is a money-saving and online fundraising website with thousands of great discount codes. At Savoo you can find voucher codes and offers from over 2,000 of your favourite online shops. Every time you use a deal, Savoo donates to the charity of your choice.
Pets
Treat your pet with a Love Louie gift box! For every Blue Cross box purchased, Love Louie donates £5 plus VAT to Blue Cross. Each amazing gift box includes a minimum of six high quality items and a combination of toys, treats and useful accessories. Love Louie focus on enrichment in all their boxes, providing quality items designed to keep your pet entertained and mentally stimulated.
Oggi’s Oven are healthy home baking mixes for dogs. The Oggi's Oven range has been designed to bring home-cooked goodness to your pet’s diet, while providing a treat which is both healthy and free from artificial additives or preservatives.
Baking Oggi's Oven treats is a great way to involve the children in the care of the family pet, creating a sense of responsibility whilst being fun too! Oggi supports Blue Cross by donating five per cent of net sales towards our work.
Anicura create high quality skincare products that can help contribute to your pet’s health and happiness. If you are looking for shampoo or skincare products for your dog or cat, then Anicura is donating to Blue Cross with every purchase.
Safe Solutions is the market leader in pet disinfectant. They are donating 50p + VAT from the sale of every 500ml ready-to-use trigger spray of their disinfectant product. Now you can bring the same level of disinfecting used by veterinary professionals into your home.
Donations
Every Pets at Home shopper can register to become a VIP member. VIP members gain points when shopping with Pets at Home, which can then be donated to their charity of choice. Points are then turned into Lifeline e-vouchers, which our rehoming and clinical teams use to buy pet food, accessories and toys for the pets in our care.
VIP members who selected Blue Cross in 2020 donated Lifeline vouchers worth and incredible £65,118.92. If you shop with Pets at Home then please select Blue Cross as your charity of choice and donate your points when you buy.
Giveacar is a not-for-profit social enterprise that can turn your old car into cash for Blue Cross. They arrange free collection, then either sell your car at auction or scrap it with the proceeds (minus their service fees) going to your charity of choice.
Earning money from your used or empty inkjet cartridges is made easy with Ohana Collect. Ohana specialise in the collection and re-use of used ink printer cartridges, helping raise money for UK charities. Every time you recycle your old ink cartridges with Ohana Collect, you can donate the proceeds towards our work.
Play
Raffolux is an online raffle platform offering luxury prizes. Members can select a charity to support with 10 per cent of their ticket purchases donated to their chosen charity. There are also charity special raffles held – our last one was for £1,000 John Lewis vouchers – watch out for the next one supporting Blue Cross.
You can raise money for pets in need, just by gaming! Whether your platform is PlayStation, PC, Xbox or even the Monopoly board, you can get sponsored to play. Get signed up for Paws 2 Play, and we’ll send you loads of great ideas for gaming challenges. This is your chance to help the animals you love… by doing something you love. So why not get your game on and paws for a special gaming challenge for pets?
Other ways to support
Red Dog Ads has built an advertising platform where users can take control of their advertising experience and get paid for their time. It’s a simple formula. You provide some information about you. Red Dog Ads send you relevant ads to watch and pay you for your time. You can then decide to donate this money directly to Blue Cross.
For each ad you watch, you can donate 40p to Blue Cross, so if you watch just one advert per week, you’ll donate£20.80 each year. Easy!
Roundups, will round up any payments you make on your debit or credit cards and donate the pennies to Blue Cross. Round your payments up to 10p, 50p or £1 – it’s your choice!