Christmas in the UK is never the same without Christmas cards. Friends and family send each other Christmas cards, wishing one another a happy Christmas. Work colleagues exchange Christmas cards to, school children give each other cards wishing one another a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
1 billion greeting cards was sold in the UK in 2016, according to the greeting cards association. When you consider the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, to produce 1 billion greeting cards. and the number of trees pulped to make the cards and envelopes to post them, it will not doubt have a significant environmental impact.
The above reasons are why Hope Spring charity, advocates that we should consider sending a Christmas ecard, instead of a paper based Christmas card this Christmas.
Apart from the environmental impact, ecards have several other advantages over paper based cards. Some of the advantages includes the fact that an ecard arrives the instant it is sent, no stamp required. Ecards are considerably much cheaper than paper based cards, some websites allow you to send a Christmas ecard free of charge, while others suggest you make a donation when you use their platform to send an ecard. Here is a list of Charities that offer free ecards or ecards for a donation.
Hope Spring charity recently created an ecards website, to encourage their supporters and visitors to send ecards this Christmas. Hope Spring ecards range includes more than twenty ecards, featuring popular Christmas imagery. Supporters and users of Hope Spring ecards can send an ecard to their loved ones for a donation to the water charity.
There is opportunity for small businesses to use Hope Spring ecard platform. Businesses using ecards instead of paper based cards can count that at part of their action to improve their CSR. The corporate Christmas ecard section of Hope Spring ecards, allows businesses to send and track ecards sent out to hundreds of recipients.
You can find more information about Hope Spring ecards on their Facebook page. Find out more information about Hope Spring Charity on their website.