Ealing Charity Christmas Card Shop
Ealing Charity Christmas Card Shop is an annual volunteer-run Christmas greetings card shop in West London.
Since the shop's foundation in 1985 the Ealing Charity Christmas Card Shop has sold an estimated £500,000-worth of cards to some 21,000 customers.
Unlike most charity card shops 100% of the money raised from sales at ECCCS goes direct to the 47 charities it has supported in the 26 years of its operations.
In 2011 the shop moved from Ealing YMCA to operate between 31 October and 18 December from temporary premises at 16 Bond Street, Ealing, London W5 5AA.
Local celebrities and politicians who have officiated at shop openings include Stephen Pound MP, Sir George Young, Sue Cook, Chris Serle, Glenys Kinnock, Gary Wilmot and Doc Cox.
Charities Represented
The charities whose cards are sold at the shop include: Alzheimer's Society, Amnesty International, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Cancer Research UK, Chain of Hope, Christian Aid, CICRA, Combat Stress, CPRE, Cystic Fibrosis,Diabetes UK, Epilepsy Research UK, Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust, Friends of Hammersmith Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital Kidney Patients Association, Leukaemia, RNLI, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Mount Carmel RC Primary School, Multiple Sclerosis Trust, Orchid - Fighting Male Cancer, Pestalozzi International Village, React, Reyes Syndrome, Samaritans, Save the Children, Shelter, Shooting Star, Unicef.
The nearest rail and tube station to the card shop is Ealing Broadway.
References
- Volunteers Wanted This Is Local London, 5 November 2004.
- Annual Ealing charity shop opens at YMCA Ealing Times, 4 November 2008.
- Charity on the Cards Ealing Gazette, 12 November 2009.
- Flood Ruins YMCA's Charity Card Shop Ealing Gazette, 19 November 2009.
- Ealing Charity Christmas Card Shop 25th Anniversary EalingToday.co.uk, 12 November 2010.
- Ealing Charity Christmas Card Shop Has Moved EalingToday.co.uk, 1 November 2011.