OTHER CHARITIES - APPS

Do something good - Orange UK

This is an app full of actions for you to complete, each of which takes 5 min to be completed on your mobile.

There are all sort of things to do from taking photos of wildlife in your local part to completing surveys. All those actions are helping UK charities.

What is in it for the user? The user gets rewarded every time he/she completes an action and if you give 4 hours (that's 60 actions) he/she'll get music reward from Orange RockCorps Collective.

The British Heart Foundation Recipe Finder

All recipes featured in the app are checked by the BHF dieticians. This app is aimed to people with diabetes, people with high blood pressure, or people who are trying to reduce the cholesterol.

This app's aim is to provide information (nutritional) and assistance on having a healthy balanced diet, not aimed for fundraising.

Battersea Dogd & Cats Home

With this app you can view dogs or cats that are waiting to be adopted whilst on the go. I figure that is it useful for people who are thinking on adopting a dog/cat already, not necessarily who will think of it on the future. My aim is to get people who don't necessarily care about diabetes because they don't know that they are at risk. My aim is to make them worried.

iBreastCheck app

Breakthrough Breast Cancer provides on this app a video tutorial on how to check yourself, the ability to set your own reminders for a breast check and a risk report to assess how your lifestyle could affect your risk of getting breast cancer.

This app is particular interesting to me because there is this lifestyle check which is crucial for people to know if they are at risk of getting diabetes.

Finger Marathon II Lite

This app does not provide any chances for donations. The app was created for fundraisers who will be running the Flora London Marathon but it is nothing but a game (a simple one). The aim of this app is to advertise the full version of the app, which raises money for the charity MIND when bought. There is nothing clever about it and it is also not cost effective since 30% of the purchase of the full version of the app goes to Apple Inc.

 iMutt Dogs Trust app

It is essentially a virtual pet, just like Tamagotchi and The Sims (virtual person or family), which brings to your attention how much effort it takes to look after a dog. The donation part is present on the app but very poor. It is a number to call or a text message service.

Do Something Funny for Money - Red Nose Day

 
This is an existing app which features most of the actions I mentioned on the Challenge App idea. You must have a Red Nose Day Giving Page and you can post updates, messages and links to your page on Facebook and Twitter, you can process any credit card and PayPal donations safely and securely, track donation made to your page and use your address book to send out sponsorship emails to your family and friends.


So this app sums up all I wanted to do but it works only with Red Nose Day.
I need to come up with something extra for this app because I am not convinced that everything has already been created.

Hoopathon Comic Relief app

This is a simple game which costs £1.79 (of which 30% goes to Apple Inc.) that is nothing but a silly challenge that you buy only in support of Comic Relief. Even though it is very silly this app has 84 ratings whereas the useful Red Nose Day app has only 11.