So I have recently stumbled across a promotion offered by the company [Giffgaff](https://www.giffgaff.com/) in the UK.


The promotion is simple, sign someone up (they spend £10 on mobile phone credit) and you receive £5 credit and they receive £15. So £20 in total. Currently the promotion is better and gives £25 in credit per £10 spent but this expires soon as it is a new years promotion. The method requires an initial £10 investment in a Giffgaff SIM as well.

So I was thinking, there are a lot of charity lines in the UK that you text, spend your credit, then the charity receives donations, like [this one](http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/terms-and-conditions/text-to-donate#newtexttodonate1).

So if anyone was going to donate money to charities that accept money this way this could potentially double up on donations. Some charities in the UK that accept money this way work globally e.g. Unicef. But not all charities do accept money this way.

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The main problem is the text costs 5-10p so the full £15 on the new SIM card can't be spent and since charities often only accept whole numbers this means all the money can't be spent. A £10 and £3 donation is possible. Also Donations made this way are charged at just under 3% so a £10 donation means the charity receives £9.77. So that's £13 (from new SIM) plus £5 (original SIM with texts on it) and the charity receives £17.58 per £10 spent (due to the just under 3% fee). 

So in reality doubling up can't really be  achieved. But using this method in the UK can help increase the money the charity receives.

It is free so get SIMs delivered to your UK address so the only cost is time and the £10. If anyone was thinking of doing this I would be happy to give guidance and also if people would like to get involved not from the UK I could do the donations on your behalf myself and provide photographic/video proof of the messages. 

Please share this information with anyone who donates in the UK to see if there donations can be increased this way. I will also do one £10 donation that will increase to £25 potential (due to extra promotion expiring in February) to compensate for any profit this post receives. In the event it receives £10+ I will do two, or £20+ three donations etc... The donation will be to cancer research UK.