Donation rates
| 0.50% | Purchases - existing customers (excluding eBooks, eReaders and Kindles) | |
| 2.00% | Purchases - new customers (excluding eBooks, eReaders and Kindles) |
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Give as you Live is not available on eBooks, eReaders, Kindles and downloadable audio books. Donations will not be paid on their Click & Collect service.
Donations may only apply to the sale price and not include VAT, delivery and other such costs. Please do not use voucher codes from other websites as this may affect your donation.
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Give as you Live Online is the free and easy way to raise money for a charity of your choice when you shop online with 6,000+ stores.
Waterstones are the UK's leading high street book specialist. Books are their passion as well as their business, and they aim to provide customers the widest choice, great value and expert advice from a team passionate about bookselling.
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Recent funds raised at Waterstones
£0.30 raised for St Gregory's Foundation
£0.20 raised for Last Chance Animal Rescue Home
£0.68 raised for The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust
£0.70 raised for Bede House Association
£1.00 raised for Young Lives vs Cancer
£0.32 raised for Bat Conservation Trust
£0.29 raised for Merlin Neuro Therapy Centre
£0.50 raised for IcFEM Mission (Europe)
£0.65 raised for Sightsavers
£0.49 raised for Southern Brooks
£0.20 raised for Myeloma UK
£0.34 raised for PETA
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Give as you Live Online generates charitable giving from your everyday shopping. Our retail partners value your loyalty. We enable their "thank you" to be your donation to your chosen charity.
Find out more or watch our 60 second videoYou can support any of our 200,000+ UK charities.
Our charities range from big national charities to local schools, churches and social groups.
As a "thank you" for sending them sales and customers, our stores pay us a commission. We use this commission to make a donation to your chosen charity.
You don't pay anything extra for your shopping, the donation is made at no extra cost to you.
It's also completely free for your charity. There are no joining or payment fees for them, so 100% of the donation will reach the charity.
We pay donations raised through shopping to your charity every three months providing over £15 has been raised. If your charity hasn't reached £15, donations will roll over until they do and then get paid in the next quarter.
You can view the status of every donation within your account. A donation will typically move from 'pending' to 'approved' to 'paid' over the course of a few months.
We donate 50% of the commission we receive, with the other 50% used to fund the on-going development of Give as you Live Online, which is free to all charities and members.
All donation amounts we display represent the amount the charity will receive - a 5% donation means a 5% donation!