MACS Fundraising

MACS raises funds in a variety of ways. Below is a summary of how you can participate.

We currently rely heavily on individual donations from members and various Churches in the UK.

We have received a few substantial grants from Aspect Capital and the Lottery Fund and we plan to continue to approach such funding agencies.

Macs have produced a brochure of gifts that you can 'give' to friends instead of a traditional present.
Download the gift brochure here.

Ebay is a vast auction site on the Internet, selling over £6 billion worth of items last year. www.Ebay.co.uk
MACS have setup an account on Ebay to enable us to sell your ‘stuff’ – anything from books to cars.
If you are interested, you need to provide information about your item – ideally with photos and be responsible for getting the item either sent or picked up.
It’s a lot easier than taking your items to the local charity shop – or trying to ignore it in the corner of the garage!
Below are more details on how the process works. and a checklist for you.

MissionFish enables people selling on Ebay to give some of the proceeds to charity.
Tell anyone you know who sells on Ebay – that they can now choose to donate a percentage of the sale price to MACS.
All they need to do is select MACS from the MissionFish list of charities, which they do when entering details of their auction item onto the site

Companies like John Lewis, Oddbins and M&S will give a percentage of the sales price (between 2 and 12%) to MACS if you go through our website at http://buy.at/malawimacs
** Prices are NO higher than if you bought directly from the provider’s site – so there’s nothing to loose.
Try it out - it just adds one click to your internet shopping trip.
There are also some special deals, e.g. if you buy broadband through the site, the company will donate £27 to MACS

Provide a description and preferably photos of the goods for sale, and as much relevant detail as possible e.g. physical state, age,
Tell us whether you are willing to post the goods to the successful bidder - or whether you would prefer them to come an pick them up. Postage is a better option, because more people are likely to be interested and bid.
Tell us what percentage of the proceeds you would like to go to MACS - most people give 100%
Provide us with your contact details. A mobile phone number and email address are particularly useful - so that we can contact you quickly, if the need arises.

You contact us via email at malawimacs@gmail.com
Send us the details outlined in the checklist above.
We will put up details of your sale item, using our Ebay account.
We will manage the bidding process, e.g. liaising with the bidders and the eventual winner. This normally requires us to get answers from you - so your mobile phone number and email address are very useful.
Once the auction is completed we will put the successful bidder in touch with you so that you can both sort out the details.