Customers can now select their favourite charity and shop using AmazonSmile on the Amazon Shopping App, meaning customers tin generate donations for their chosen clemency simply past shopping for eligible items on their iOS or Android phones.

AmazonSmile is Amazon's charity initiative that allows you to support your favourite charity, be it local or national, big or small, every time you purchase products on Amazon and at no actress cost to you as a customer. Each time yous store for eligible products using AmazonSmile at smile.amazon.co.britain or on the Amazon Shopping App, Amazon will donate a percentage of the net purchase price to your chosen charity at no boosted toll to you or the clemency. Customers tin can store for millions of eligible products using AmazonSmile and will accept exactly the same shopping experience and depression prices as Amazon.co.uk.

"AmazonSmile donations so far have funded the equivalent of 16,207 hours of vital nursing care and support to people at the end of life in their own dwelling house. "

Michelle Martin, Director of Development and Communities, Marie Curie.

"Donations from AmazonSmile have resulted in tens of thousands of UK charities expanding their meaningful work and making a departure in people's lives, and we are delighted to accept given over £ix million on behalf of U.k. customers to the causes they care well-nigh most," said John Boumphrey, U.k. Country Manager, Amazon. "Whether selecting a clemency for the first time or choosing a new charity to back up, with the plan at present also available in the Amazon Shopping App, shopping with AmazonSmile has never been easier and nosotros hope our customers volition proceed to use this fantastic service."

Michelle Martin, Manager of Development and Communities for Marie Curie, ane of the Uk's largest providers for end-of-life intendance and support, recently said: "AmazonSmile has been a lifeline for our operation during this pandemic, and the £60,918 donation nosotros received in February 2022 enabled us to sustain vital frontline services. In full, AmazonSmile donations then far take funded the equivalent of 16,207 hours of vital nursing care and support to people at the finish of life in their own home."

NHS carer in PPE and patient sitting in chair with oxygen mask
Thamena Ali, Marie Curie Nurse, in personal protective equipment (PPE), at the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead.

Photo by Marie Curie

Customers can choose from more than than 40,000 charitable organisations to support through the Amazon Shopping App or on smile.amazon.co.uk. Every eligible buy at grinning.amazon.co.united kingdom or via the Amazon Shopping App one time AmazonSmile is enabled under 'Programmes and Features' volition and so automatically generate a 0.v% donation of the net buy price (excluding VAT, returns and shipping fees) to the charity of their choice.

As of June this year, UK charities have received over £9 one thousand thousand since AmazonSmile launched in the United kingdom in 2022 and globally AmazonSmile has raised over £212 million.

AmazonSmile supports more than than 40,000 participating UK charities, including CLIC Sargent, WWF, Barnardo'due south, Cancer Research UK, RSPCA, The British Reddish Cross, The Royal British Legion, Marie Curie, and Stonewall Equality Limited.

Registered United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charities can learn more and register to accept donations at org.amazon.co.united kingdom .

This Prime Twenty-four hours (21st-22nd June), Amazon Prime members will non only exist able to store epic deals from all categories, simply they'll likewise have the option to do some good every bit they spend, simply by shopping via AmazonSmile. Whether new to AmazonSmile, or an existing user, all Prime members can benefit from increased donations equally they shop this Prime Day.

Two ways to generate donations

All Prime number members shopping with AmazonSmile:

AmazonSmile will double its donation charge per unit throughout the unabridged 48 hour Prime Mean solar day event on all eligible purchases made by Prime members shopping through AmazonSmile in their Amazon Shopping app or on the web. Prime members will generate a donation of 1% of the internet purchase price to their chosen charity, each time they shop a deal with AmazonSmile.

Prime members newly activating AmazonSmile in their app:

There's even more to gain for United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charities this year: AmazonSmile will too donate v% of the net purchase price – 10X the regular charge per unit – on the first qualifying AmazonSmile purchase on Prime Day, for every Prime number member who activates AmazonSmile in their Amazon App from 2nd June through the end of Prime number Twenty-four hours 2022 on 22nd June.

How to sign upwardly for AmazonSmile

In the App:

  1. Download or update to the latest version of the Amazon Shopping App for iOS or Android
  2. Open up the app and observe "AmazonSmile" in the chief menu (☰) nether "Programmes and Features"
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to cull your charity and plough on AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping App
  4. Showtime generating donations while yous shop eligible items in the app!

In any spider web browser:

  1. Visit smile.amazon.co.uk and sign in with your Amazon.co.uk details
  2. Select your favourite charitable arrangement to receive donations
  3. Start generating donations every time you shop for eligible items at smile.amazon.co.britain
  4. Add a bookmark for smile.amazon.co.united kingdom or install the Amazon Assistant to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile

Learn more than and brainstorm supporting your chosen charity at grin.amazon.co.uk