Dear charitable organisation,

In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to make it easier for customers to support their favourite charities. We were excited about the potential for the programme and the impact it could have for many charitable organisations. We want to thank you for your partnership during all these years.

After almost a decade of running AmazonSmile, we learned that with so many eligible organisations—more than 1 million globally—our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen that Amazon can have a more significant and lasting impact if we invest in specific areas and focus our philanthropic efforts in the communities where our employees live and work. We’ve started to see the benefits of a more focused approach with our investments in programs like Amazon Future Engineer and our support for a charity coalition led by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown that has donated essential products to more than 50,000 families in need —and we will continue to pursue and invest in other areas where we’ve seen we can make meaningful change.

We are writing to let you know that we have made plans to wind down AmazonSmile by February 20, 2023. Until this date, customer purchases made via AmazonSmile will continue to accrue funds for your charity as normal. To help charities like you plan ahead, we will also provide you with a one-time payment equivalent to six months of payments based on what you accrued in 2022 through this program. The timing of this final payment will be approximately 60 to 90 days after February 20, 2023. We hope that this will help minimise the impact that this decision might have.

You will be able to continue asking for the support from Amazon customers in other ways, like creating your own product wish lists. We have also launched a new Amazon for Charities store which allows charities to raise money by selling merchandise on Amazon and collecting 100% of profits, and we are adding more charities all of the time.

We will keep supporting thousands of charities across the UK in many ways, and focus on the areas we believe can help create an even greater impact. Our long-term commitment to our communities remains the same: we are determined to help create a better world for our customers, our employees, and the communities we serve across the UK.

Thank you,
AmazonSmile Team