What is a virtual animal gift?

How does a virtual animal gift work, step by step?

You choose a gift tag, add the recipient’s name and occasion if you like, and pay on World Animal Rescue Network’s page. WARN puts the donation in its general fund and emails you a receipt. For the present itself, you make a gift card on Charity Shop and print it or save it as a PDF. Nobody takes an animal home.

• Choose a gift tag — for example £10, named after a week of rescue-dog meals
• Add who it is for, who it is from and the occasion, if you want them passed to WARN
• Pay on WARN’s secure page; WARN emails you a receipt
• Make a printable gift card with their name and your message, then print it or save it as a PDF

What is the difference between a care gift and a symbolic gift?

A symbolic gift supports a cause generally, with the price set for fundraising. A care gift here names a kind of care at a suggested amount, but the money still goes to WARN’s general fund, so it is closer to symbolic than the name suggests. The tag says what you had in mind; it does not restrict how WARN spends the money.

What does the recipient actually receive?

Whatever you hand them. WARN emails you, the payer, a receipt; it does not send a certificate for these gifts. Charity Shop’s free gift card puts their name, your message and the gift on a page you print or save as a PDF. No live animal, tracking collar, weekly video or postal pack.

Last-minute works because nothing is posted. See last-minute charity gifts and do gifts come with an e-certificate?

Does the money fund exactly what the card describes?

Not directly. WARN does not take donations for individual tags, so every gift goes to its “Where it’s needed most” fund and the tag names the kind of care you want to support. What you can check: who receives the money (WARN CIC, company 17298990), WARN’s published fund terms, and your receipt. Prices are suggested amounts, not costs.

The checklist for any animal charity is in how to choose an animal charity. Our legal structure is on about.

When is a virtual gift the right present?

Birthdays, Christmas, weddings, and gifts in memory — any occasion where the person would rather hear what you gave towards than unwrap another object. It is also the honest last-minute option when the high street is shut. It is the wrong present when they asked for a thing you can still buy, or a live animal.

Occasion pages such as birthday, Christmas and in memory pick tags for those tones. The gift card is the same for every occasion; your message changes.

When is a virtual animal gift the wrong present?

When the person wanted fur they could hold, a posted luxury hamper, or a registered-charity Gift Aid receipt. Say no rather than stretching the product.

• Children expecting a pet — this is not an animal
• Corporate gifts that must be a physical SKU with a courier
• Donors who will only give where Gift Aid applies