everyclick.com is a really clever and very simple way to raise cash for the Civic Society and the Discovery Centre. We all use search engines to find what we want on the internet, some of us countless times every day. Now you can use a search engine that pays half its revenue from advertisers to charity.
All you have to do is ...
- Sign up to everyclick.com and register the charity of your choice - we hope you will pick Bollington Civic Society or Bollington Discovery Centre from the list - and
- Use everyclick.com to make your searches. See below for setting your default search to use Everyclick.
At the bottom of the everyclick.com home page there is a paragraph entitled How we allocate money to charities. Please read this to see how the funds are shared out between active charities.
This is a really good way to raise cash for charity - it costs nothing to use!
Choosing your charity
When you first go to the everyclick.com site you are presented with a box to search for the charity to which you would like to register your support. Enter Bollington Civic Society or Bollington Discovery Centre* and click on the search charities button. Then just follow the instructions to register. Once you have signed up, clicking on everyclick.com will take you to a web search page.
Thank you very much for supporting us in this easy way. The amount collected will be posted on the Civic Society and Discovery Centre home pages.
* Please note that the Discovery Centre is operated by the Civic Society and both are part of the same charity, registered number 501544.
Setting Everyclick as your search default
To ensure that you use Everyclick by default whenever you make an internet search it is necessary to add Everyclick to your browser's search engine list and make it the default. This is easy to do - just follow the guide below ...
These instructions apply to Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. MSIE 6 will be similar but not necessarily identical.
- At the top of your browser page, probably on the right hand end of the page address line, there is a search box. To its right is a button with a magnifying glass on it and to the right of that a button with a down facing arrow. Click the arrow button.
- A list of search engines will be followed by a few command lines. If Everyclick is in the search engine list click on it. Job done; it is now your default search engine. If it is not in the list continue ...
- Click the bottom command, Change Search Defaults ...
- Click the line near the bottom left, Find more providers ...
- A new window will open with a Microsoft page listing a variety of search engines. Everyclick is not in this list. You need to look at the orange panel on the right titled Create your own ...
- Read the instructions. At 3 it asks for a web address. The one you are looking for is http://www.everyclick.com/uk/search/?keyword=TEST . Cut this from this page and paste it into the box at 3.
- Type Everyclick into the box at 4.
- Click on the Install button.
- It will ask if you want Everyclick to be your default. Click yes.
- Job done; if you type something into the search box and enter, Everyclick will open and present you with the results of your search. Importantly you will also have clocked up another click for the Civic Society and earned us another penny or so!
Thank you very much!
