Tag: JustGiving

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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JustGiving is the official fundraising platform for Brighton Half Marathon – for the second year running

Stuart Mitchell

Charity places are now open for one of the south east’s biggest running events – Brighton Half Marathon and JustGiving has been confirmed as the official fundraising platform, for the second year running.  In the first year of their partnership, JustGiving, along with other fundraising platforms, helped Brighton Half Marathon raise over £1million, resulting in an impressive 17 per cent increase in funds raised compared to 2019.   Since its establishment over three decades ago, the Brighton Half Marathon has helped raise a considerable amount of money for a host of worthy causes and charities.   The race takes place on Sunday 25 February 2024, one of the first major races…

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JustGiving to revolutionise fundraising with the integration of Generative AI

Stuart Mitchell

JustGiving is set to become the first UK leading fundraising platform to offer generative AI technology to help people create compelling fundraising pages in a matter of seconds. This groundbreaking development is expected to benefit more than 20,000 charities by enabling fundraisers to quickly and easily create and share their personal stories. On JustGiving, more than 850,000 fundraising pages were created last year and of these, around one third (35%) of fundraisers chose to use the platform’s pre-written content instead of writing their own individual stories. Research conducted by JustGiving…

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£6 billion raised for good causes on JustGiving

Stuart Mitchell

Leading fundraising platform, JustGiving has surpassed £6 billion in donations through the platform.   JustGiving, which removed platform fees in March 2019, has managed almost 200 million donations from more than 180 countries since 2000.   Some recent JustGiving campaigns:  £55 million was donated in response to the war on Ukraine  £39 million was raised on the platform by people completing the London Marathon  Sir Captain Tom Moore continues to hold the largest individual led online crowdfunding campaign in history, after his challenge went viral and led to more than £39 million donated…

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JustGiving & Swiftaid partner to help charities claim Gift Aid

Stuart Mitchell

It’s estimated that charities miss out on £564 million in Gift Aid every year. For big and small charities alike, processing Gift Aid often comes with a huge administrative burden and cost. And with new donation methods on the rise, such as contactless giving, charities are missing out on more Gift Aid. It’s time for Gift Aid innovation. Imagine a world where Gift Aid just happened – no guesswork, no paperwork. Charities simply received an extra 25% from the government on all eligible donations from UK taxpayers. Introducing JustGiving x…

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