Does anyone support local charities instead of H4H?

Post by **JustCraig** » June 22nd, 2012, 8:36 am

Charity vending is something I have yet to get into – currently I have only gone down the commission route however just out of interest does anyone support local charities for vending instead of H4H?

I currently volunteer with a local hospital radio station (a registered charity) and was contemplating pitching some sort of commercial partnership to the committee – my main concern is whether this is a charity that people will support but it is a charity I do a lot of fund raising for and because I am involved on a day to day (well week to week) basis I will be able to see where the money is going. Plus it is a local charity and something that people can relate to.

I am not convinced I am going to go for it to be honest but I would be interested to hear people’s thoughts.

Post by **Big Chris** » June 22nd, 2012, 9:07 am

Hi Craig

I have commission based machines and also h4h, but on top of that on all machines I donate a small percentage to a small local charity, I don't use thier logo on machines though. But they are very very happy about it.

Chris

Post by **mic79** » June 22nd, 2012, 9:34 am

I have machines for Macmillan cancer support.

Post by **Snackmore** » June 22nd, 2012, 9:44 am

Speak to Ade he has recently set something up with a national charity

Post by **Style** » June 22nd, 2012, 5:08 pm

About 70% of our machines are for the local hospice. They go in really easily and everyone locally loves them.

Post by **JustCraig** » June 22nd, 2012, 11:26 pm

So what do people think about local Hospital Radio as the charity?

Post by **Snackmore** » June 23rd, 2012, 11:01 am

Its very personal what people want to give money to. Cancer charitys and hospices are always good, hospital radio doesnt do it for me but then if I had a stay and relied on it I may think differently?

Animal charitys always do well too sometimes better than human ones

Post by **JustCraig** » June 24th, 2012, 4:56 am

Snackmore wrote:Its very personal what people want to give money to. Cancer charitys and hospices are always good, hospital radio doesnt do it for me but then if I had a stay and relied on it I may think differently?

Animal charitys always do well too sometimes better than human ones

Yeah thats what I thought.

Post by **david@naughtyvend** » June 29th, 2012, 6:23 am

...have done for years, actually our commission admin system has a feature for this purpose.

The 'charity' tag to me comes over the wrong way from a marketing perspective which is why we don't mention it to the public, personally I prefer to give to anything which is a good cause and have even donated football kit for a kids team etc.

Post by **Ade** » June 30th, 2012, 1:22 am

yup i run my own kids footy team and kit they are in now was bought from me

Ade

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