energyhelpline.com is an independent and accredited energy switching and price comparison service which provides consumers and businesses with impartial, comprehensive advice on energy tariffs. Every year energyhelpline.com switch in excess of 100,000 consumers. These services and follow-on customer care are offered online and via a call centre operation. The company also provides a business energy service. Business model energyhelpline makes profit from charging energy suppliers a fee for each customer who switches to them through energyhelpline, making the service free to the consumer. Company history The company was founded in 2002 as Fundraising Innovations Ltd trading as switchandgive.com. energyhelpline is one of a group of web properties owned by Fundraising Innovations Ltd, which also includes moneyhelpline - comparing mortgages, loans, credit cards, life insurance, bank accounts, home insurance and car insurance, greenhelpline - comparing green energy solutions, and firsthelpline - comparing broadband and home phone services. Over £100,000 has been donated to charities through switchandgive.com. In 2006 energyhelpline worked in partnership with a climate change group to arrange for all the then Conservative shadow cabinet members to switch their home energy supplies to a renewable energy supplier. Partners and affiliates energyhelpline has relationships with all major suppliers in the energy industry and works closely with several money and energy advice websites, providing statistics and powering their energy comparison tools. The company works with Jasmine Birtles at moneymagpie, The Daily Mail Group, and The Guardian, amongst others. energyhelpline also works with affiliates to promote its services, rewarding them for successful conversions with commission.
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