Tag: JustGiving

GoCardless renews headline sponsorship for JustGiving Awards 2024, strengthening relationship with fundraising platform

Stuart Mitchell

GoCardless, the bank payment company, has renewed its commitment to be the official headline sponsorship for the annual JustGiving Awards this September. This follows a hugely successful partnership for the 2023 GoCardless JustGiving Awards which brought in nearly 20,000 votes for 12 incredible finalists. The sponsorship builds on a two-year relationship which started when JustGiving selected GoCardless to collect recurring donations via Direct Debit. Earlier this year, GoCardless was also named the open banking payments provider for the fundraising platform, enabling the public to make instant, one-off donations through its…

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Record breaking year for giving according to leading fundraising platform

Stuart Mitchell

It’s been a record-breaking year for charitable giving with more than £550mn raised for almost 20,000 UK charities, according to the country’s leading fundraising platform, JustGiving. Despite the rising cost of living, JustGiving has seen the most donations to good causes and the highest total amount raised since it started more than 20 years ago. This year, almost one million (+950,000) JustGiving fundraising pages were set up, which is on average 2,600 pages per day and overall, 9% more than last year. Highlighting the sheer generosity of people across the…

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What Have I Done?: JustGiving partners with award–winning fundraiser Caroline Jones to launch first of its kind fundraising podcast

Stuart Mitchell

JustGiving has partnered with award-winning fundraiser Caroline Jones to create a new podcast focused on fundraising.  What Have I Done? delves into the stories of ten inspirational fundraisers who have to date collectively raised more than one million pounds for charity.  The series is hosted by Caroline, who in 2015, after sadly losing her mother Mary to breast cancer, began her own fundraising journey.  Through her Knickers Model’s Own campaign, where she wore and modelled a different second-hand outfit every single day of the year, Caroline raised over £55,000 for…

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JustGiving selects GoCardless Instant Bank Pay for open banking payments

Stuart Mitchell

GoCardless, the bank payment company, has extended its relationship with JustGiving to become the online donation platform’s exclusive open banking payment provider, replacing American Express. The move will see JustGiving use both the fintech’s Instant Bank Pay feature to collect instant, one-off gifts and its Direct Debit capabilities for recurring donations. JustGiving estimates that 10% of its donations already go through open banking payments — a proportion that it wants to grow. JustGiving does not charge a commission fee on donations to charity customers, instead relying on optional tips that…

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JustGiving helps to raise £3.4m for Macmillan Coffee Morning in first year as fundraising partner

Stuart Mitchell

JustGiving helped to raise more than £3.4m for Macmillan in its first year as the fundraising partner for the charity’s annual Coffee Morning initiative. Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s biggest annual fundraising event to support people living with cancer and has been running since 1990. The very first Coffee Morning simply encouraged people to get together over a coffee and donate the cost of their drink to Macmillan. Since then, Coffee Morning has grown, with hundreds of thousands of people across the UK gathering to enjoy a cup of coffee, share…

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