Alternatives to Just Giving?

oldtoolie

You are right. Your appeal to the potential donor is the key to successful fundraising.

However, you do need to test whatever donation mechanism you use to make sure they are easy to use.

africaCycle

Does anyone know of any website that allow donations to charities not registered in the UK or US. I am looking for a service like justgiving/firstgiving that will allow me to raise funds for a south african charity (registered in south africa).
Thanks!

oldtoolie

One of the main reasons for JustGiving and others is to facilitate collection of Gift Aid rebates. As you want to fundraise for a charity which is not UK registered, Gift Aid is irrelevant.

One alternative would be to setup a simple webpage with a blog site and then use PayPal to collect the donations.

Be sure to work with your charity to ensure that your efforts are seen as transparent and honest.

flyingscottie81

Virgin Monet Giving offer very low processing fees.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/about-us/best-deal-for-charities.jsp

The charity I work for is recommending it.

africaCycle

oldtoolie wrote: »

One of the main reasons for JustGiving and others is to facilitate collection of Gift Aid rebates. As you want to fundraise for a charity which is not UK registered, Gift Aid is irrelevant.

One alternative would be to setup a simple webpage with a blog site and then use PayPal to collect the donations.

Be sure to work with your charity to ensure that your efforts are seen as transparent and honest.

I would prefer something where people can just pay with credit card directly and dont first have to set up PayPal accounts.

oldtoolie

A Paypal account is not required to make a payment to a PayPal account holder.

africaCycle

oldtoolie wrote: »

A Paypal account is not required to make a payment to a PayPal account holder.

I did not know that. I just checked it out! That is great. Pitty they charge 3.4% plus a fixed fee.

jamesbell4

charitiestrust.org charges 4% of the total donation (including card charges), but requires donors to sign up.
They can also process payroll donations which cost the donor 25p a month.

charitiestrust.org recommends Everyclick, who charge charge 4.8%

CharityGiving charge 3.99% on the pre-gift aid amount. Their site says they charge nothing if there is no gift aid to claim.

poipleshadow

I have been using MyCharityPage as our main 'sponsorship' site, it's not the prettiest of sites but it gets the job done. They have fees which are about 5 % I think, this is taken from the donor and not the charity (so it actually costs the donor more), anyway, they've been doing a good job for us for the last year or so. We currently have a couple of guys cycling the

Another donation service we use is CAF, Charities Aid Foundation, they don't charge if it's not a gift aid donation, if it is they charge 5% I think.

Paypal is also good, but charities pay about 1.6% charge on this service.

We use all three, we also receive donations through Charities Trust, although this was just activated for us, we didn't opt in

Hope this helps

patrick0

Charities Trust handles payroll giving for many companies.

You can set a figure each month which is deducted from your pay before tax and sent to CT. It's particularly efficient way to give if you're a higher rate taxpayer.

You can either have it paid directly to a specific charity or log into the CT website each month and choose which charity(s) it goes to.

Good things: customer service is friendly. It's very tax efficient method of donation and gives you total flexibility about where your donations go.

The things I dislike about them are:
- my donations used to become available for giving on their website fairly quickly after I was paid. But now they take ~2 months. My employer claims payments to them are made to them the day I'm paid. So presumably they're holding on to them longer due to low interest rates.
- a few months back, without any notification they introduced a £1 mail based statement. You had to opt out to avoid the fee.
- they charge a 25p fee per donation