Recycling Lives Launch Car Recycling Network
24 August 2011
Recycler and social welfare charity Recycling Lives has launched its latest national charity project, Car Donation Network, which allows UK car owners to donate their unwanted vehicle to a charity of their choice
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Charity service Car Donation Network lets car owners arrange a collection for their unwanted vehicle. Cars donated to the scheme are resold or scrapped to get the best price and 100 percent of the profits from the vehicle are donated to a charity of the car-owner's choice.
Car Donation Network is the third Community Dotcom scheme launched by Recycling Lives and joins Bulky Waste and Furniture Donation Network as an automated, charity-led service for UK householders run by Recycling Lives.
The Network's first official charity, Breast Cancer Care, has uploaded a profile to the website in the hope that generous UK car-owners will consider donating their old vehicles to them.
If the organisation doesn't already have a profile on the site for the charity a customer wishes to donate to, Car Donation Network will get in touch with the charity to arrange the donation personally.
Creator of Car Donation Network and founder of the Recycling Lives social welfare charity, Steve Jackson, said: "We're absolutely thrilled that Car Donation Network is up and running now. Recycling Lives is a charity for charities: we're not interested in keeping our ideas to ourselves - our Community Dotcom schemes are here to generate revenue not only for our charity but for other great not-for-profit organisations across the country.
"In these difficult financial times, the people of the UK need new ways to help charities. Not everyone can afford to dip into their pocket and make a traditional donation. By combining our business knowledge and our charitable aims, we've found a number of ways that householders can make a difference without spending any more.
"We really hope that, when the time comes for people to get rid of their old car, they'll think about what a difference it could make to a charity and use Car Donation Network to make that difference."
Recycling Lives is an award-winning social welfare charity that helps homeless and unemployed people back into work, by offering them accommodation, training, work experience and employment opportunities. The organisation has already launched two other national, charity-led services that it has dubbed, "Community Dotcoms" to reflect the concept of using an online platform to give UK householders a charity alternative to commercial services.
Darrel Moore
