Author: Janis Furneaux

It’s not often we receive 34 year old vehicles so when we do we love to find out the history behind it and the reason for selling! “Initially I tried the Vauxhall Cavaliers owners club but with no luck, as they thought it was some kind of hoax, I went on line and found GiveaCar. It seemed a good way forward. The car was registered in march 1989 and I bought it in May 1992. Its first owner was Hospital & General supplies in Reigate and it had a high mileage of 59,000. Since owning the car it has been […]

Wishing all of our donors and charities a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. What an incredible year its been for giving to charity and we look forward to what 2023 will bring! We have approximately donated in total for 2022 £348000, averaging around £29,000 each month. Our best month was March but our quietest month was May. Our highest individual donation was to Saint Benedict’s for £7692 – an amazing amount!

Donating your car is a hassle free way of getting rid of your unwanted vehicle. This year alone we have already turned close to 700 vehicles into cash for Charity! 300 different charities in the first half of this year have received from £44 for a donation up to an incredible £11,000. All you need to do is provide a few details about your vehicle. We will arrange collection and sell the vehicle as either scrap or auction, for the proceeds (minus our service fees) to be sent to your chosen charity. Giveacar is a not-for-profit social enterprise and every […]

Suicide Crisis is our current featured charity. The charity’s founder is a survivor of suicidal crisis. She set up the charity in 2012 because she couldn’t find the type of help she needed. She felt that there was a need for a new crisis service which would provide a different approach and ethos from that of psychiatric crisis teams. Their award-winning Suicide Crisis Centre has received national and international attention, including from the Ministry of Health in New Zealand. Although they are open to anyone who is feeling suicidal, they have a particular commitment to supporting people whose crisis has […]

Thanks to your donations going to SpecialEffect you have helped support people like Brenda: Brenda’s overjoyed to be back playing the game she’s loved for over 30 years thanks to an adapted controller setup devised by our specialist assessment team. She’s a huge Legend of Zelda fan, but weak muscle strength and reduced fine motor skills due to multiple sclerosis meant using a standard controller to play hadn’t been possible for a long while. SpecialEffect’s specialist assessment team arranged a video assessment call with her to discuss the scope of her abilities and investigate what combination of assistive technology might potentially help […]

Thursday, 2nd of June 2022, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. She is a true inspiration and we hope you are all celebrating this bank holiday weekend. Did you know the Queen is patron to 510 charities in Britain, including Cancer Research UK and the British Red Cross, the wider Royal Family support a grand total of 2,415 charities in Britain, with this figure rising to almost 3,000 worldwide. Queen Elizabeth II at one point said to have helped raise £1.4 billion a year!

May bank holiday weekend, we had the honour of sponsoring The Twin Town Challenge 2022 which is a fun charity car rally whereby teams buy a cheap car and pimp their ride however they like! The route goes from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire to Le Touquet in northern France. Along the way volunteers take on challenges and the occasional lap of a circuit. The event is in aid of SpecialEffect – our featured charity focusing on improving the lives of the physically disabled. The unwanted cars have been donated to ourselves to raise even more money for Special Effect. We […]

At Giveacar we’ve made scrap car recycling easy. Providing an even more ethical way to recycle your car. We guarantee at least 95% of your scrap car is recycled. A great option for the environmentally conscious or those concerned about the environmental impact of car production. When a car is scrapped, parts can be recycled for another car. The vehicles are shredded, and the metal content is recovered for recycling, while in many areas, the rest is further sorted by machine for recycling of additional materials such as glass and plastics. The remainder, known as automotive shredder residue, is put into a […]

SpecialEffect are an award-winning charity that enables people with physical disabilities to benefit from the fun and inclusion of video games and leisure technology. They support people of all ages through personalised assessments, equipment loans and equipment modifications. Bringing fun and inclusion into the lives of people with physical challenges right across the world through the innovative use of technology. Every individual SpecialEffect work with has completely bespoke needs and the setups they provide can range widely in cost depending on the level of complexity, equipment and follow-up support required. £5 could buy flexible fixings to enable a controller, joystick […]

As we enter our final week with Action Medical Research as our featured charity we take a look at what your donations will support: Selecting the very best projects and research with the focus on the health of babies, children, and young people. The research funded by Action focuses on child health including problems affecting pregnancy, childbirth, babies, children and young people. Within this a broad spectrum of research with the objective of preventing disease and disability. Donations have played a significant role in many medical breakthroughs, starting with the development of the first polio vaccines in the UK, later […]

Danny was diagnosed with Hunter syndrome when he was three years old, having had a history of developmental delay. Tragically, tests would find that he had the worst possible outlook – a complete gene deletion in his DNA. His parents are painfully aware that time with their youngest son will be cruelly cut short by this rare disease. Hunter syndrome almost exclusively affects boys. It’s caused by a faulty gene that leads to the lack of an enzyme that’s vital for breaking down sugars in the body. Without this enzyme, waste sugar molecules build up in all the major organs, […]

Aged just eight and previously healthy, Beatrice endured the terrifying effects of autoimmune encephalitis – a rare type of brain inflammation. This caused her to lose the ability to walk or speak for several months, putting unimaginable strain and worry on her parents and family. After diagnostic tests ruled out epilepsy and other conditions, Beatrice was eventually diagnosed with a rare type of brain inflammation called NMDAR-antibody encephalitis (N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibody encephalitis). Action Medical Research and British Paediatric Neurology Association Research Training Fellow Dr Michael Eyre is investigating if advanced brain scans taken early on in a child’s treatment can […]

When Joey was just four years old he became unwell, experiencing acid reflux after suffering retching and headaches, lethargy and difficulty walking. After being seen by specialists, Joey’s parents Darren and Kathryn faced the terrible news that their little boy had a brain tumour. After Joey had to endure a 10-hour operation tests revealed that the tumour was cancerous. Joey then went through radiotherapy, chemotherapy and a second operation. Thankfully, after all the treatment, Joey’s long-term prognosis was very good. Research to find a way to get more detailed information from MRI scans for children with brain tumours was funded […]

2021 has seen some record milestones for Giveacar. We hit a total of £4million raised for UK charities since the organisation began. And in October, we saw our largest ever month for donations with over £60,000 raised! Over 1,700 vehicles were donated this year, and through your generosity it lead to a total of over £450,000 being donated to a whole host of different charities, from the large household names to small independent charities. That works out to over £1,000 donated per day this year. Whether it’s the most frequently donated car, a Ford Focus, or something a bit more […]

Around 1.5 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF). Thirty years ago, you’d only receive treatment for it if you experienced symptoms like palpitations, sweating and difficulty breathing. AF doesn’t always show symptoms, however even with no noticeable symptoms it can increase the risk of stroke. In fact, it’s been associated with increasing the risk of stroke by as much as five times. In April 2016, David was a fit 52-year-old. But shortly after completing a 10km run, he suffered a major stroke. David had developed AF, a condition which puts you at much higher […]

Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is an inherited condition which causes very high levels of cholesterol in the blood from birth. If left untreated, the build-up of cholesterol can clog up your arteries, leading to heart attacks and strokes at an earlier age. Jovita was born in the Philippines and lives with her husband and two children in Abergavenny, a market town in Wales with a strong community at its heart. But in 2010, her whole world turned upside down after being diagnosed with FH following a heart attack. Even though Jovita’s father died of a heart attack, her mum and two […]

In the 1960s more than 7 out of 10 heart attacks in the UK were fatal, but thanks to research, there’s been a revolution in how we treat heart attacks and today at least 7 out of 10 people survive. Before the mid-1970s, nobody really understood what caused heart attacks. On 7 April 2020, 66-year-old Alice Timmons put her chest pain down to indigestion. By the following afternoon, the pain hadn’t gone away but Alice was reluctant to get help. It was during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and she thought ‘they’re busy, there’s probably nothing wrong with […]

It’s World Animal Day and we are highlighting a charity who recently registered to start receiving car donations. Soi Dog Foundation’s mission is to improve the welfare of dogs and cats in Asia, resulting in better lives for both the animal and human communities, to create a society without homeless animals and to ultimately end animal cruelty. We were established in 2003 on the island of Phuket, Thailand and Soi Dog is Southeast Asia’s largest organisation helping stray animals. The Gill Dalley sanctuary in Phuket is home to around 1,500 animals. The organisation runs entirely on donations and works efficiently so that […]

For our last charity feature of the year we are delighted to be working with the British Heart Foundation and turning your vehicles into donations for them. We’ll be aiming to raise £5,000 in support of the incredible work they do and take the total to over £20,000 raised for this year! Their vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. Raising money to research cures and treatments, so they can beat heartbreak forever. “We are so grateful to Giveacar for their continued support and are excited to announce that through their car donation scheme […]

Liam, aged 22, has a mild learning disability and autism. After finishing college, he was put in touch with Mencap’s employment team in September 2019 where he was given a place on the supported internship programme. The programme supports young people with a learning disability make the important step from education into employment, and ultimately helps secure the right job for them. Liam was given a second chance at the programme in September 2020 due to Covid-19 and the restrictions brought on by the lockdown that got in the way of his job search. He was feeling down about things, missing […]

Rainforest Trust’s mission for over 30 years has been to prevent the destruction of rainforests and other tropical habitat through the creation of protected areas. We’ve already helped to create 178 protected areas totalling over 37 million acres, and have another 100 or so in the works. So why are these protected areas so important? Here are our top five reasons. 1. Safeguard Biodiversity Protected areas guard critical habitat for species. Recent studies show that on average the number of species in a protected area is 10.6% higher than outside, and the populations of those species are 14.5% greater when […]

Giveacar has raised £4 million for charity Today, we are celebrating having raised £4 million from the donation of vehicles to UK charities. This milestone is a major accomplishment for Giveacar on our mission to provide an alternative fundraising stream to charities. “We are delighted to have raised such an incredible amount for the causes registered with us. Our small team works very hard to ensure we get the most out of every vehicle and there is no better reward than reaching this significant milestone. None of this would be possible without the generous support of all the donors over […]

3 Top Tips For Buying a Second-hand Car Most of us know buying a used car to be a tricky business. There’s a range of pitfalls to negotiate whether you buy from a local dealer, privately or at auction. With years of experience to hand, here are our top three tips for easing the strain of finding a genuine car that’s reliable and good value for money. First Tip Get some quotes for your current car before going to buy. With the rise of sell your car services and many free online car valuation tools, it’s good to see what […]

We were so excited when we got news we were having another little boy. My son Lucas was over the moon when he found out he would have a little brother to play with. When Taylor was born, we knew straight away that something wasn’t right, the doctors and nurses seemed very concerned. Those initial joyful moments I was expecting to have with my new born son turned to panic as he was whisked away for tests. Soon after the staff at the hospital came and told me that Taylor had problems with his heart and would need an operation. […]