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"A very useful and well put together directory of charities with a good search facility and a list in over 30 categories, there is also the excellent Goodwill Gallery where you can post up a service or a donation you are willing to give to charity."

The Good Website Guide 2002

Promotional Opportunities

Would you like to get the most out of your advertising budget?

If so, we can help. Charity Choice is widely recognised as the UK's leading Charity website and printed directory as it provides an unrivalled opportunity for a variety of clients. Visitor numbers continue to increase monthly, as Charity Choice establishes itself as the definitive website for both the Charity Sector who use the website to select goods and services and for those looking to donate to Charity. Existing clients will bear testament to their satisfaction with the promotional opportunities and response generated from their sponsorship, banner or listing advertisements.

If you are a charity, the Charity Choice directory of charities offers you the unique opportunity of promoting your organisation to those who are specifically looking to donate. If your company provides services to the voluntary sector, the Charity Choice Services Directory offers you the ideal opportunity to gain new business referrals and an increase in exposure to clients within your market/sector. Take advantage of one of the promotional opportunities described below. Charity Choice can provide your charity or charity service with consultative advice on a variety of opportunities to suit your specific business needs, and can provide clients new to the internet with guidance and help to understanding the many online benefits available to you. Click here for our advertising enquiry form.

For information on how we market our directory online click here, we do more than just list your details!

 

Who should advertise?

Charities

"I thought I should let you know how delighted we are with the continued effectiveness of Charity Choice in securing legacies. We are able to monitor the response through a code in our address. Charity Choice will continue to be our primary publication for attracting legacies but we are of course now augmenting this through your Internet facility."

Stanley G Helliwell Executive Director,
Yorkhill Children's Foundation

"We have found Charity Choice to be invaluable in attracting legacy donations to help us fulfil our promise to promote life-saving and life-enhancing research. We are extremely happy with the service and results that we have received."

Sue Maridaki
St. Peter's Trust for Kidney,

With thousands of visitors ranging from members of the public to legal professionals, there is not a better way of raising funds than through Charity Choice's print and online directories. There are promotional opportunities to suit every marketing strategy and budget, ranging from sponsorship opportunities designed to create impact, to banner advertisements. Ensure that you do not miss out on potential donations, and highlight your charity on the UK's leading charity directory website and printed directory.

Click here for our advertising enquiry form.

Service Providers

"Caring Cancer Trust frequently refers to the Charity Choice Services Directory when selecting goods and services for our organisation. We consider Charity Choice to be the most valuable charity reference tools available and feel that they have done an excellent job with this much-needed Services Directory"

Helen Sinclair Co-founder,
Caring Cancer Trust

Does the voluntary sector make up part or all of your client base?

The brand name Charity Choice is widely recognised by the UK voluntary sector as the UK's leading authority on charity information. The Charity Choice Services Directory is well established as the definitive guide to UK charity services. No other website can offer you access to a highly targeted audience of individuals who manage budgets and authorise spending in UK Charity organisations.

Charity Choice provides a cost effective and unique marketing opportunity to reach potential donors and UK charities alike. As a trusted and comprehensive information source, you can be assured that your charity product or service will be seen.

Click here for our advertising enquiry form

Advertising Options

Enhance your charity or company awareness within Charity Choice, see below for the following options and their benefits:

Sponsorship       Enhance your listing      Add/Amend your entry       Enquiry Advertising Form

Sponsorship positions

Sponsorship gives you the opportunity to develop a relationship with specific parts of the Charity Choice audience. Through sponsorship your corporate logo/brand is continuously presented to potential donors or customers to enhance awareness and stimulate traffic to your website. See below for our online sponsorship options:

For print product rates click here

Exclusive homepage banner
This exclusive banner advertising position appears at the top of the main homepage. Banner size 468 x 60 pixels.

Example page

Advertise with us

  homepage banner

Homepage sponsorship button (1 of 10)
There are sponsorship buttons available on the left and right hand side of the homepage. Button size 120 x 60 pixels.

Example page 

Advertise with us

  Homepage sponsorship button

Exclusive search page banner
There are 5 search page banner positions; Charity Choice Directory Online, Charity Search, Category Search, Charity Choice Services Directory Online and Goodwill Gallery. This exclusive banner advertising position appears at the top of these pages. Banner size 468 x 60 pixels.

Example page  Advertise with us
  search page banner


Search page sponsorship button

Each of the search page positions (Charity Choice Directory Online, Charity Search, Category Search, Charity Choice Services Directory Online and Goodwill Gallery) have sponsorship buttons available on the right hand side of the page. Button size 120 x 60 pixels.

Example page Advertise with us
  search page sponsor ship
     


Enhance your listing

Maximise your advertising potential and enhance your charity or company entry through banner advertising. See below for our range of banner options - be one step ahead of your competitors.


Exclusive category banners

On the charity category search you can search using 32 categories and on the charity services search there are 64 categories. Each category has an exclusive banner attached to the top of each of the search results. Why not have complete control of your charity category and book now. Banner size 468 x 60 pixels.

Example page Advertise with us
  category banner


Listing banners

Highlight your entry within the results list, make your entry stand out from the results by having a listing banner attached. Banner size 468 x 60 pixels.

Example page Advertise with us
  listings banner

To discuss these opportunities or other advertising positions available, please contact Claudine Clark on 020 7549 8637.

Update your entry

If you would like to be listed in the Charity Choice Directory online or Charity Choice Services Directory online click on the relevant link below. Entries range from FREE to paid entries depending on what information you would like displayed. You can also use this link to amend or update your current entry with new details. If you prefer to talk to our sales team please contact Claudine Clark on 020 7549 8637

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Please note that charges are clearly outlined on the forms.

Update/Amend my entry within:

Charity Choice Directory Online

 

Charity Choice Services Directory Online

 

Banner Design Specifications

Size allotted to each banner is within 12KB.
Size specification: Banner - 468 x 60 pixels, Button - 120 x 60 pixels.
Only files with extensions (.jpg, .jpeg, .gif) will be accepted.
Listings banners are not to be animated.
Category banners and sponsorship banners/buttons can be animated.


If you have any queries with regards to the making of your banner please contact Alan Parker on 020 7324 2368.

How we market your entry

As one of the leading websites in its field Charity Choice has an excellent marketing strategy which ensures that your entry is seen by as wide an audience as possible and makes sure that you get most out of your advertising. As part of the overall online marketing of the Charity Choice website, our experienced team of online marketing professionals ensure the following essential online marketing is carried out:

  • Ensuring the website is optimised for search engine indexing and positioning. (Regular updates of Page title, description, keywords meta-tags, robot text)

  • Buying a number of keywords from different search engines ensures Charity Choice appears when popular charity keywords are entered within a search engine.

Search Engines

Search engines are an important promotional tool on the Internet as many users use a search engine at some stage to look for new sites of interest. The Charity Choice web address (www.charitychoice.co.uk) and subsequent pages are submitted weekly to search engines. Individual submissions are made to all major worldwide search engines and directories. Regional search engines and directories in the United Kingdom are also submitted to. Search engine submissions are a continual process to ensure that the Charity Choice website has and maintains a competitive position within a search engine's results.

Statistic Reports

Statistics for the Charity Choice website are generated on a monthly basis. Reports are important as they provide measurement of site activity. The Charity Choice site sees over 101,479* user sessions and 1,145,856 page impressions each month. This means that an average of 3,383* users visit each day and an average of 38,192* pages are being viewed. This indicates that Charity Choice is a highly active website resource used by many users and once someone is within our site they are highly likely to view multiple pages within the site.

* These figures are based on March 2009. A user sessions indicates how many actual unique users came to the site regardless of how many pages they viewed whilst within the site. Page impressions indicates how many pages a unique user has visited. The higher the page view impressions the more pages they have searched and viewed within the site. For further information on web statistics please contact our sales team.

The statistics captured are derived only from those users who view www.charitychoice.co.uk and other web address extensions of this and re-directions. Links and affiliations with other websites are not captured within this report therefore traffic statistics are greater than reported on.

Continuous monitoring of website statistics includes reporting of search engine ranking, link popularity, domain name ownership, active website links and affiliations

Important Information

Due to the operational differences of search engines and directories, all Wilmington Business Information websites are submitted on an individual basis with an accurate description and precise category selection. Therefore, Wilmington Business Information cannot guarantee that our sites will appear in all related search listing results.

It is important to note that submissions to search engines generally take between 4-8 weeks to be processed. Also because several search engines involve a subjective human element in their listings, there is no guarantee that all submissions will be accepted