Anyone know any good charity sites that help charities as well as providing good service?

I like to use World Vision. Your gift recipient only gets a card but it's a great cause. The flowers sound like a great idea so will mention it to my missus, she sends flowers sometimes and as it's a good cause even better.

Unless the price is the same or better than buying from other sites, you are better buying from other sites and making a Gift Aid donation to the charity (no matter how small the difference they can and will claim the Gift Aid)

I lost my daughter at 18 with cancer and this charity were so helpfull and are always in need of help.

Every day 10 families are told their child has cancer. As the UK's leading children's cancer charity, CLIC Sargent is the only organisation to offer them all round care and support. That?s because we?re there every step of the way:

During treatment ? providing specialist nurses, play specialists, Homes from Home

In hospital & at home ? offering specialist social care and support in the community ? services for young people, holidays, grants, helpline

After treatment ? helping survivors, supporting those bereaved

www.clicsargent.org.uk
Registered charity number is 1107328

I have bought cards through www.charitycards.co.uk - not just Christmas cards but ones for other occasions too.

My wife recently sent her friend a gift from www.thegreenoffice.co.uk. Its for breast cancer, all pink products, quite nice actually, also one year someone got me a goat from Oxfam! Obviously not for me as such, but thought it was a great idea, you can put together a wish list (almost like a wedding list) and have it emailed to your friends.

Have a look at http://www.thegivingmachine.co.uk/

They donate a percentage of the cost of a sale to a charity, without making the cost higher for you.

I like the Children's Society online shop as they support goods that have been ethically made and fairly traded and it means that money is being paid to the families that actually produce the goods and helps support low employment or under privileged communities in the UK and other parts of the world.

Yes there is charity flowers profits go to a range of member charities. Anything you buy from a charity shop goes towards the service side of a charity's work. Many have new goods as well as second hand. Buying insurance through Age uk means you are supporting the charity and you may be able to give someone a present of pet insurance for example. And sidesalad is right there are three companies that sell cards on behalf of charities. But of course you can support the charity of your choice by buying their Xmas cards. Most of the big charities have their own.

As recommended by James Caan on BBC news few days ago

http://www.unicef.org.uk/give/index.asp?page=81&google=jc_pakistan&gclid=CKG1vsO8xqMCFYGX2Aod8jdKZQ

I simply use cancer research. After members of my family have died from cancer, I find that is the only way of making me feel a bit better, by donating to the charity that will work hard to reduce the illness where possible.

One way to help charities if you are going to use Amazon is to go to your favourite charity site and see if it has a click through to Amazon. The charity gets a payment from Amazon for this. I think they also earn a payment from any other links on their site.

Another way is to use different search engines, there are details on this page http://www.squidoo.com/searchforcharity

This site gives lots of ways of helping charities from having specific credit cards, donating vouchers to charities, recycling etc http://www.days.org.uk/

i wish i had heard befoe about the cancer research flowers! i would have used them for a family funeral. also there are the usual culprits: gifts catalogues where most of the money goes to charity, specific auctions and events where the money raised goes to charity and some sites have specific days that put money to charity.