It costs around £50 per day if not more to keep St Stephen’s Church open

Shop Online and Raise Money!

Have you heard about easyfundraising yet? It’s the easiest way to help raise money for St Stephen’s Church! If you already shop online with retailers such as Amazon, M&S, Argos, John Lewis, Comet, Vodafone, eBay, Boden and Play.com, then we need you to sign up for free to raise money while you shop!

So how does it work?

You shop directly with the retailer as you would normally, but if you sign up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ststephenshammerwood for free and use the links on the easyfundraising site to take you to the retailer, then a percentage of whatever you spend comes directly to us at no extra cost to yourself.

How much can you raise?

Spend £100 with M&S online or Amazon and you raise £2.50 for us. £100 with WH Smith puts £2.00 in our pocket and so on.  There’s over 2,000 retailers on their site, and some of the donations can be as much as 15% of your purchase.

Save money too!

easyfundraising is FREE to use plus you’ll get access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and voucher codes, so not only will you be helping us, you’ll be saving money yourself.

We need your help to keep donations coming in. Sign up at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ststephenshammerwood and start making a difference…simply by shopping.

Also, You Can Raise Money As You Search!

Are you one of the 6.4m people that use a search engine every day? Did you know you can raise money for St Stephen’s Church while you search?

http://ststephenshammerwood.easysearch.org.uk combines the results of several search engines such as Yahoo!, Bing and Ask to ensure you can always find what you’re looking for. But the fantastic thing is that EVERY TIME you search, half a penny is raised for St Stephen’s Church – Hammerwood. Search just 15 times a day and you can raise around £25 a year for us.

See what people are saying about easysearch

“easysearch is a great idea and just as good as Google for the results! I’ve recommended it to my friends and I think this site is the best around as it does something for people. Well done!”

“What a fantastic idea! I was using Google anyway but this way I get to raise money for my good cause every time I search…brilliant! I’ve made easysearch my homepage!”

So the next time you need to find something online, please use http://ststephenshammerwood.easysearch.org.uk and raise money for St Stephen’s Church with every search you make.

Finally – if you are from an organisation that would like to raise money in this way then click on

http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/referral/41938

to sign up for free. When you sign up via this link St Stephen’s Church – Hammerwood will receive a thank you from easyfundraising for referring you. Don’t worry, this won’t affect the amount you raise and when you’ve signed up, you can introduce new groups and benefit in the same way.

Remember, easyfundraising is totally FREE to register and use for both you and your supporters.

We have also teamed up with EmptyCartridge.co.uk to offer a way to recycle printer cartridges from home and  your workplace and funds are generated for the church.

It is very quick and easy and costs you nothing to take part.  Simply put a minimum of 3 cartridges in our special pre-paid postage bags, put them in the post and EmptyCartridge.co.uk will send us some money!

Bags are available in the church, or email hammerwood@gmail.com to have some posted to you.

Thanks – and happy fundraising!