Dear Friend,

(Name of group) has signed up to an exciting new fundraising programme which will enable us to turn other people’s trash into cash.  

Scouts Appeal recycles old mobile phones, PDAs and used printer cartridges to raise money for our group.  With an estimated 90 million redundant phones lying around the UK gathering dust and 35 million inkjet cartridges being used every year the earning potential is great!

We are encouraging all our supporters to get behind the appeal and not only save their own cartridges and handsets but also get their place of work involved.  

Supporting Scouts Appeal is great news for the environment too.  When cartridges and mobiles are thrown out they end up in landfill sites where they can leak toxic substances into the surrounding soil polluting the earth. These items also take many years to biodegrade resulting in a long term environmental problem.

Items donated to Scouts Appeal are reused or recycled and can generate up to £50 per mobile and £10 per cartridge for the Scout Group, some Scout groups in the UK are raising thousands of pounds from Scouts Appeal each year!

Mobile phones are refurbished and sold on, often to lesser developed countries where they are an essential from of communication, while cartridges are refilled and returned to the consumer stream as an environmentally friendly product.

For further information on how you can support the Scouts Appeal please call (insert Scout Leader’s name) on (insert Scout Leader’s telephone number) or contact Scouts Appeal direct on 08451 30 20 10.

Thank you for your support – happy recycling!

Yours sincerely

(insert name & signature)