UK Car Donation Program

Surprisingly, car donation in the UK is not nearly as big as it is in the USA.  Launched late last year, Giveacar.co.uk is the only vehicle donation program currently operating in the UK. A potential reason for this is that car owners in the UK are not offered tax breaks when they donate their vehicles.  As a result, the Giveacar model operates in a different way to those in North America. They focus on the collection and disposal of scrap cars, rather than those which can be resold for use on the roads.

The Director of the program, Tom Chance, stated that this novel approach is reaping great rewards for UK charities.  He wants to emulate the success of the USA programs like www.CharityCar.us, but do it in his own way.  The UK regulations for scrap cars are particularly stringent, and Chance takes pride from the fact that he is not only benefiting charities, but also the environment.  Because Giveacar was launched only a few months ago, it is not yet clear just how popular charitable car donation will become in the UK.  Chance however, believes he is on to a winner, and feels that he may have imported something of great significance. For more information or to make a car donation in the UK, visit www.giveacar.co.uk

Standard Auto Wreckers suggested 10,000 Trees for the Rouge as the recipient of $10,000 in funding late last year and I noticed this awesome sign a while back and thought I would share.

There was an exciting event today at Standard Auto Wreckers where a check for $10,000 was donated to a fantastic local ‘green’ charity, 10,000 trees! The funds came from OARA where members of the association have agreed to pay an extra $20 per vehicle they acquire though the Retire your Ride car recycling program.

In the picture below  you see (from left to right) Ken Gold, Raymond Cho, Colin Creasey and David Gold.

The ARA conference this year was a great success and a lot of fun for all those that attended.  With a tag line like “Experience the Horsepower Driving the Industry” most of us took the challenge quite seriously.

It seems the entries for Standard Auto Wreckers and Car-Part exchanged a few words before the big race.  Rumor is Green-Gold Thunder started talking smack first, whispering things like, “you look like you were born in a junkyard” and “get ready to eat my radioactive dust” – Car-Part High Octane replied with, “hey sissy, at least I don’t glow in the dark”.

In the end every horse that participated was a winner because all racing proceeds went to benefit charity!

For those of you that missed the news a couple of months ago we partnered up with CarsForums.com and we have our own forum area titled Used Auto Parts and Car Recycling – Just today we cracked 2,500 views and are looking forward to having many more visit.

We have some really great topics over there and I would like to encourage our members and visitors to swing-on-over and contribute!

Thanks again to everyone that has helped this partnership become such a great success!!!

As many of the affiliates will soon learn we have really turned the juice up over here insofar as online marketing, promotion and optimization.  One of the initiatives I have brought in early is finding innovative ways to reach out to our grassroots demographic.  One way to get our message across is by sponsoring online forums where like-minded car enthusiasts already hang-out.  Please take a few moments to visit our sponsored forum area at http://www.carsforums.com/used-auto-parts-car-recycling/

These forum threads are a great way to boost awareness of our program and will also give us an opportunity to communicate directly with our potential customers.  If you have any questions or comments either use the built in commenting feature below, email me: (jgsaw123@gmail.com) or call me at 1-800-668-5014 x417

I have been looking for some novel ways to promote www.GreenVehicleDisposal.com and www.CharityCar.us and partnering up with like-minded forums seems to be a natural fit.  We recently made a deal to have to sponsored posts at www.carclubtalk.com – you can visit the postings by clicking on the following links: here and here.

We look forward to providing many new online marketing and promotion ideas in the near future.  If you have any questions or comments either use the built in commenting feature below, email me: (jgsaw123@gmail.com) or call me at 1-800-668-5014 x417