What is Brightideas.today? A brief introductory guide.

Something for everyone! Brightideas.today is the new online magazine dedicated to providing positive news and features to the people of the UK. There are many important (and often rather depressing) issues featured in the news media nowadays, but these seem to have squeezed out many of the positive stories of all the good things that are going on. Brightideas.today seeks to redress the balance a little. We aim to bring you the stories that make you smile and show that it’s not such a bad old World after all…

Brightideas.today is also a forum for people to share their own positive stories with each other. Whether it be a factual feature on something they love, a short story, a poem, a biography of a notable person in their community, anything as long as it is uplifting. You can share your story here.

We’re also committed to raising funds for schools, charities, churches, and community groups across the UK and beyond, and for this reason all of our profits go to them. Not only that but subscribers get to decide which cause their subscription will support. No dividends are paid to our shareholders, all profits go to the causes we support.

Brightideas.today carries a mixture of features, ebooks, brain teasers, prize draws, what’s ons, etc, with more added every day. What’s more, subscribing for just £2.50 a week can actually make you better off, as we also have £100’s of discount voucher codes and offers on all sorts of products and services.

In short Brightideas.today has 4 simple aims:

To cheer up the UK – with positive news and stories, prize draws, puzzles and games, etc.
To help charities/not-for-profit organisations – by donating our profits to them.
To ease pressure on household budgets – by carrying offers and discounts worth £100’s every week.
To help British small businesses back onto their feet – by promoting their products and offers for free.

A Brightideas.today subscription is not a donation. This is the purchase of a product, like a newspaper or a box of cornflakes. We are a limited company like any other, the difference is just where the money goes!

You can subscribe here, or take free trial here.

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Cup of coffee. If you spend £4.40 on a latte in a high street coffee shop, you get an (admittedly delicious) coffee. Just £2.50 on a weeks Brightideas.today subscription however, get’s you

Positive news stories from the around UK and across the globe.
Entry into 30+ fabulous prize draws.
£1,000’s of money saving vouchers.
Features on all manner of subjects from boys bands to seaside piers, pets to classic cars.
Classic ebooks.
Brain teasers, puzzles, and quizzes.
Writing competitions.
Weather forecasts.
Horoscopes.
What’s ons.
Classified ads.

…and much more.

How do you support good causes and communities.

Gold Medal Winner. When you spend £2 on a UK Lotto ticket just 28% (around 56p) goes to good causes, and someone else chooses which ones.

When you spend £2.50 on a weeks Brightideas.today subscription we give 50% plus all of the profits made on your account to the cause you choose. Lottery operator Allwyn makes tens of millions of pounds for shareholders, we do not pay dividends to shareholders. In other words, everything other than running costs goes to the causes our subscribers choose.

Young woman with tablet. Yes. You can try out Brightideas.today for four weeks for free, and see for yourself what all the fuss is about. You don’t need to enter card information and are under no obligation to take up a full subscription. We think it’s only fair to let people take a look around first and decide they like us before paying anything. You can take your free trial or full subscription here.

Should you take a full (paid for) subscription, you will be asked to name your beneficiary cause when you subscribe. This can be a school, charity, church, community group, or almost any not-for-profit organisation that benefits the community. A full list of the types of organisation that are eligible can be found here.

If you’d like to take a sneak preview before taking your free trial you can take a look here.

Why are you asking me to tell my friends about you?

Girls whisper. One thing the big lotteries and coffee shop chains do have is massive advertising budgets. We do not.

That is why we are asking you to share this page (click on a button below). This way we hope to harness ‘people power’ to raise money for good causes, not big advertising agencies (they’re already loaded!).

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How can my charity, school, church, or community group benefit?

Helping hand. Every subscriber has to enter the name of a beneficiary when they subscribe. This can be almost any not for profit organisation, including schools, charities, community groups, churches, clubs, etc (see here for a list of eligible organisations). This organisation will then get 50% of the income from that subscription every month, plus ALL profits from that subscription at the end of each year.

If your organisation is named by a subscriber, then it will receive this as a donation at regular intervals (normally monthly or when a minimum threshold of £30 is reached).

See Raise Funds for more information.

Are there opprtunties for writers and journalists?

People working. Whilst much of the material we publish is shared by our subscribers (in our ‘News’ and ‘Shared Stories’ areas), we do also welcome freelance submissions, and occasionally commission material. So if you are a writer (new or established) with a story to tell, then let us know. Further information on submitting material to Brightideas.today can be found here.

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