IT'S EASY TO USE UNWANTED SHARES TO HELP SAVE CHILDREN'S LIVES.
 

Your disposable shares can now easily be sold to benefit charity, at no cost to you and in a tax-effective* way - through ShareGift Australia.

You won’t have to use a stockbroker, there are no brokerage fees and you can nominate that the proceeds are given to UNICEF Australia, where they will be used to support UNICEF’s Oral Rehydration Therapy programs around the world - saving over 2,700 young lives every day.

It used to be costly and complicated.

In the past, you had to sell your shares before donating them to charity, which involved appointing a stockbroker and paying brokerage fees as well as dealing with time-consuming paperwork. Even if you wanted to ‘tidy up’ your shares portfolio, small amounts of shares were difficult or even impossible to dispose of because of the costs involved.

Now....

... thanks to ShareGift Australia, selling shares for charity takes just minutes and costs you nothing. ShareGift Australia, a not-for-profit organisation, sells them on your behalf and then donates the proceeds to charity. You can nominate your chosen charity. It’s so simple, it’s tax-deductible*, and it could help UNICEF save the lives of thousands of children.

ShareGift Australia makes your donation go much further.

You can donate any amount of shares in any ASX-listed company through Sharegift. The table below illustrates the advantages of converting $200 of shares to charitable donations through ShareGift Australia versus selling them conventionally and then donating the funds:

* UNICEF Australia does not provide tax advice. Please consult your taxation adviser to determine your tax position.

What do I have to do?

1. Click here to print out and complete the simple donation form.
2. Post the form to UNICEF Australia, PO Box 488, QUEEN VICTORIA BUILDING, NSW 1230.
3. We will forward on, and Sharegift will arrange for the shares to be sold.
4. You will receive a separate letter from ShareGift Australia with details of the share sale, which you can keep as a receipt for tax purposes.

Oral Rehydration Therapy is the simple solution for saving children’s lives.

Every year, almost 2 million children die from diarrhoeal dehydration. It’s one of the main killers of children in the world. By the time a child has an acute case of diarrhoeal disease – often within a matter of hours – their small body is so dehydrated that they cannot even cry. Click here to learn more about UNICEF's ORT appeal

Just 35 cents is enough to keep a child alive.

Five small sachets of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS), at a cost of just seven cents each, is enough to replace the water and electrolytes a sick child has lost and return them to health.

What your gift could do.

Donations supporting ORT not only buys more sachets, but helps UNICEF to travel further into remote or war-torn areas and get the ORS sachets to where they’re so desperately needed.

Is there a better reason to sell and donate your disposable shares to charity?

Click here for a donation form which will enable you to sell and donate your shares now. Thank you.

Please click here if you’d like to make a credit card donation to UNICEF’s ORT Appeal.