Charitable Donations
Thanks to SearchScene's users, we achieved the following:
Our quarterly donations are shown below:
We are committed to donating a minimum of £1,000 to each of our chosen charities per quarter as we ramp up our traffic.
2020
March 2020
SearchScene launched (in beta)
Apr - Jun 2020
Jul - Sep 2020
Oct - Dec 2020
2021
Jan - Mar 2021
Apr - Jun 2021
Jul - Sep 2021
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Planted 13,750 trees (2,750 tonnes of CO2 removed)
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Provided clean drinking water for 1,000 peoplevia Oxfam
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Provided 210 warm blankets for children and babiesvia UNICEF
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Funded 87 life-saving malaria treatmentsvia UNHCR
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Provided 27 water hand pumpsvia WaterAid
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Adopted 28 polar bears and other endangered speciesvia WWF
Oct - Dec 2021
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Planted 13,230 trees (2,646 tonnes of CO2 removed)
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Provided clean drinking water for 1,000 peoplevia Oxfam
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Provided 210 warm blankets for children and babiesvia UNICEF
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Funded 87 life-saving malaria treatmentsvia UNHCR
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Provided 27 water hand pumpsvia WaterAid
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Adopted 28 polar bears and other endangered speciesvia WWF
About these numbers: The number of trees planted is a guaranteed figure supplied by our partner charity, Eden Reforestation Projects. All other numbers are equivalent to our donation amounts and are representative of how our donations might have been spent, according to data provided on the charities' websites. So, for instance, a donation amount equivalent to 1,000 polio vaccines to UNICEF might instead have been spent on 232 measels vaccines or 543 tetanus vaccines, etc., or any combination of these. Similarly, a donation amount equivalent to 100 malaria treatments to UNHCR might instead have been spent on 1,855 mosquito nets, 49 emergency rescue kits, 746 jerry cans, etc. We do not dictate to charities how they should spend our donations. Allowing our supported charities to spend our donations as they see fit, allows them to allocate funds to where they are needed most at any given time.
CO₂ impact: The amount of CO₂ that a tree sequesters depends on a wide variety of factors, such as the tree species, the age of the tree, its location, the growing conditions, water availability, sunlight, local climate, soil nutrients, its current growth stage, the root system and various site specific factors, such as biotic factors (e.g., insects, and other flora and fauna, diseases, etc.). However, for the purposes of averaging the CO₂ sequestered for an "average" tree, we have assumed a sequestration rate of 10 kg of CO₂ per year over a 20 year lifespan, giving each tree a CO₂ sequestration figure of 200 kg. You can read more on that here.
