Helping parents,family and friends give and receive gifts that children and young people really want for birthdays,Christmas and any other celebrations.
Giftwisher aims to become an online frictionless gift receiving business,aimed at children and young people aged between 1 and 18 years of age.Participants of a suitable age,or parents,will be encouraged to join a free online service and start generating a page promoting a party or celebration.Organisers will then have the opportunity to customise the layout and add a picture or video clip.Next th
ey'll be able to let guests (givers)know what it is they really want to receive for their special occasion.This could be contributions towards a large single gift,ideas to gifts linked to a particular interest or hobby,or both.Details of the event and location can then be added to complete the process.The organiser can then share this link via social media,or email,with people they'd like to invite or make aware of the celebration. The original concept for this idea was formed during a visit to both sets of my son's grandparents over Christmas.Over the course of a week,Joe received over 40 presents.However just a few months later,we noticed only a very small selection were still being played with! Consequently I started to think about the amount of waste that these underused or unwanted gifts caused.When I spoke with friends,they also told me that their children often end up with lots of smaller value gifts that get discarded quite quickly as well.We ended up calling this the "brightly coloured noisy plastic" condition! Some of our ideas so far
Environmentally friendly-
children should be allowed to add charity donations to their wishlists rather than just allowing those buying gifts the option to do so that inspired
Parents also use the site as an online "star chart"-rewarding good behaviour at home and at school with small contributions towards a toy or other gift their child has chosen. Automatically send an email thank you card with images from event
Could be linked to a child ISA account or driving lessons
Secure method of sending payments
"Giver" has the option of sending a personalised card to "receiver"through
Cuts out cost of postage
Links to interesting gift ideas
Enables an easy selection and process of sorting peoples events-helps keep track of the various "giver"gifts or contributions,thus enabling a similar gift/contribution when you are invited to become a "giver"-parent politics! Allow anonyms contributions from "givers"
