A WEBSITE that raises money for charity through children's birthday parties is rolling out a version aimed at adults.
PartiesAroundtheWorld.co.uk (PAW), launched earlier this year by Leeds entrepreneurs Deirdre Bounds and Carl Hopkins, will develop the online service to allow guests of weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, dinner parties, and other special occasions
to make donations towards a charity or cause instead of buying material gifts.
The website allows the party organiser to set up a personalised party page for their charity of choice.
Invites are sent out via an automated booking system and the party goers can RSVP and make an anonymous donation if they wish.
Once the party has taken place the nominated charity receives up to 115 per cent of the gift total from all the guests, when gift aid has been included.
The founders are looking for a range of partner charities and causes which would like to be recipients on the website and help promote the PAW concept.
Ms Bounds said she was inspired to launch PAW after holding a birthday party for her own young son and seeing the dozens of unnecessary gifts.
She added: "We have been delighted with the response from users of the original concept for children but we have had so many grown-ups asking for their own version that we decided to go ahead and launch it."
