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Text help for Abraham Darby

Abraham Darby Academy leads the way in inventive text giving.

 

The supporters of music at Abraham Darby Academy (SMADA), Madeley, Telford will be amongst the first charities in the country to use its own, unique personalised text code to raise funds using JustTextGiving by Vodafone.

Free service

This is a brand new, free service that has no set up or fundraising costs for charities, no network charges for people making donations, whilst every penny donated goes to charity. It also has the benefit that Gift Aid can also be added to donations.

Donations

Supporters of SMADA can make donations of up to a maximum of £10 per single donation. The text message is free of charge and all of the donation will be passed to SMADA.

Hopefully this new facility would prove to be a wonderful additional method for us to raise money as it is speedy, simple and spontaneousAndrew Roberts

Raise money

Andrew Roberts, Chairperson of the Supporters of Music at Abraham Darby Academy told 4BR: "Hopefully this new facility would prove to be a wonderful additional method for us to raise money as it is speedy, simple and spontaneous."

He added: "Most people have a mobile phone these days so we would hope that this will prove to be very popular with our supporters in that it offers a quick and simple method to make donations."

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