Donate as you shop
From art to books, music to films, you can raise money for Barnardo's by purchasing a wide range of products online. Browse our selection below.
- Save up to 80% on calls with the Diana phonecard
- Choose from over 500 online stores with Give or Take
- Princess Diana's commemorative coin
- Borrowed Body by Valerie Mason-John
Save up to 80% on calls*
Barnardo’s and Speakeasy Telecom have teamed up to launch a unique phonecard in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was President of Barnardo's from 1984 - 1996, and is one of the most remarkable and enduring icons of the twentieth century who continues to inspire the world's carers and charities today.
You can save up to 80% on calls from the UK and Abroad. A donation to Barnardo’s is made from the purchase of each Phonecard.
You can raise money for Barnardo's by visiting our online shop.
*Save up to 80% on international calls compared to BT Together rates on calls from UK to USA on 1 May 2007. Save up to 90% on Mobile Roaming rates compared to Vodafone “pay as you talk” from USA to UK on 1 May 2007
Give or Take
We're working with Give or Take, so now all you keen online shoppers have the chance to raise money for us, for free, every time you buy something online. For example, you can raise up to £120 from just one single purchase of car insurance, up to £80 for a new mobile phone contract, and up to 30% on fashion, books, holidays, homewares, gifts and gadgets – all at no extra cost to you.
There are 500 leading online stores to choose from and it will only take a few moments to shop through Give or Take, rather than shopping direct. How easy can it get to raise money for us! Find out more and sign up now at www.giveortake.com/barnardos
Princess Diana’s commemorative coin
Few living in the last decades of the twentieth century will ever forget Diana, Princess of Wales. Her beauty, kindness and charm along with her compassion for the young, the needy, the sick and the elderly inspired people the world over.
Now, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death and in celebration of her charitable work, the Royal Mint is striking a selection of limited-edition coins featuring two portraits of the Princess by Danuta Solowiej-Wedderburn and is donating a royalty from each to Barnardo’s.
Diana Princess of Wales was president of Barnardo’s from 1984 to 1996. In those years, she visited and touched the lives of many of the children and young people we work with and showed her personal commitment to our cause.
You can now be part of the legacy by buying the new, limited-edition coins direct from Royal Mint.
Borrowed Body by Valerie Mason-John
‘Borrowed Body’ is a powerful and moving account of being black and growing up in care.
Through the eyes of Pauline, former Barnardo’s girl Valerie Mason-John brings to life the experiences of – being moved around children’s homes, struggling to find her identity and battling with a strict, disciplinarian mother who can’t understand how her daughter could have developed such ‘English’ ways and yet her actions result in her daughter inadvertently being returned to the care of those she wanted her to escape.
Borrowed Body’ is a well-crafted piece of work which is both entertaining and easy to read. It helps to put the experiences of growing up in care as a black child into perspective by re-evoking images of fashion and style of the 60s and 70’s, while maintaining a sense of humour.
Borrowed Body is published by Serpent’s Tail and was launched in May 2005. Copies of the book are available on amazon.co.uk at bookshops or from selected Barnardo’s shops, priced £8.99. Some of the proceeds from the book will go to Barnardo’s.
