UShopUCare

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Pros

• £5 sign-up bonus
• Earn £2.50 for each friend referred once they earn cashback
• A percentage of your cashback is paid to charity, even if you decide to keep it all
• Ability to save favourite stores
• Fairly easy to use
• Offers some retailers not available on other sites
  
  

Cons

• Limited range of retailers, some major sites not present
• Often uncompetitive cashback rates
  
• No withdrawals allowed until you earn £20 (or £15 on top of the £5 sign-up bonus)
• Payment only by cheque or PayPal
• Payment must be requested
• No statistics on retailer payout, tracking accuracy etc
  
  

They Say:

UShopUCare is an innovative new fundraising shopping portal, which enables you to earn cashback when you buy online.The site gives you access to 500+ online retailers, including many high street names. 
Shoppers can earn up to 25% cashback when shopping at their favourite retailers as well as donating to charities and local good causes with every purchase they make at no additional cost to themselves.

Who Started It?

Mark Pearson and Nicola Cassidy decided to start UShopUCare as they are both firm believers in the fact that if everyone gives a little, the result would be huge. The goal of the UShopUCare team is to raise as much money as possible for UK based charities. As online shopping continues to grow rapidly, UShopUCare.co.uk could become a major new source of income for charities.

We Say:

UShopUCare is run by the same people behind the MyVoucherCodes portal, which probably explains the many links across the website encouraging you to visit MVC. This is a curious situation as if you're tempted to visit the retailer from MyVoucherCodes instead of UShopUCare, the theory goes your cashback won't be tracked.  When using voucher sites, make sure you delete the cookies and restart your web browser for good measure before using a cashback shopping site.

Also when we checked the UShopUCare website, the online 'help' section designed to list answers to frequently-asked questions wasn't working. This might have been just a temporary blip, but... 

Cashback rates were often suprisingly low in places - such as £3.50 to sign up at Lovefilm when Cashback Kings currently pays out £15. 

In its favour, we found a number of retailers not available on other cashback sites which, combined with the fact it helps out charities, earns it 3 stars.  But if you're already the giving kind, you'd probably do more by using a cashback site offering higher rates and donating the extra money earned to charity yourself. For those without the time or inclination to do this, UShopUCare is worth a look - and provides an easy way to help charities.

Website Link to UShopUCare