Charity fundraising article discussion

zazzi1980

Hi,

I have a random question that I'm hoping some of you can help me with. My plan is to give up smoking, and raise money for Cancer Research at the same time. The idea is that I will give them £1 for everyday that I stay smokefree, for up to a year. To keep me accountable, I would like people to be able to pledge money to Cancer Research, as long as I make it to 365 days. So I would need a pledge site, rather than people giving their donations straight away - i.e. no money comes out of their account until I make it a year smoke free. Hope that makes sense!

Does anyone know of any such sites?
Any suggestions would be great.

loucoady

Has anyone here used Localgiving? It is a not-for-profit organisation and online giving site that is dedicated to local charities and community groups in the UK.

I work at Localgiving and we're currently trying to raise awareness for a fundraising campaign we have coming up next month so that as many local charities and groups can benefit as possible.

Here are some of the details:

Localgiving.com Membership for groups is £60 + VAT per year, which includes the ability to accept online one-time and regular monthly donations, automated Gift Aid processing, regular match funding opportunities and access to training, advice and support.

There are a couple of unique points about Localgiving compared to other online giving sites:

1. It supports very small charities that are too small to register with the Charity Commission (as well as other groups such as CICs that are otherwise unable to register) and enables them raise funds online. Not only this, but it also allows unregistered groups to benefit from automated Gift Aid by processing donations through Foundation partners.

2. It runs regular match fund campaigns designed to raise awareness and funding for local charities and groups. It's annual national campaign is called Grow Your Tenner, which doubles online donations made through the site up to £10 and matches monthly donations up to £10 per month for 6 months.

With Gift Aid, a group on the site would typically receive £21.55 for a £10 donation made during the Grow Your Tenner campaign (although it depends on payment method used as third party fees do vary very slightly).

Grow Your Tenner 2014 launches on Tuesday the 14th October at 10am and allows each group with an active Localgiving.com membership the opportunity to access up to £12,000 of match funding.

In 2013, the campaign raised over £1.5m in funding for local charities and groups and this year the match fund is already in excess of £500,000. You can find more information at GrowYourTenner.com, or please do reply here if you'd like to know more and I'll get back to you!

Hopefully this is of interest to some people reading this forum and will help some smaller local charities to raise extra funding.

koru

The current article says Givey.com charges no fees at all. This is correct. However, one thing to beware is that gift aid claims work differently with them. Other platforms make gift aid claims to HMRC in the name of the charity.

Givey works by combining with a PayPal Giving Fund account. The latter is the one that pays the charity the gift aid, but it should be noted that when people make a donation, they are actually donating to PayPal Giving Fund, which is a charity itself. They then regrant the funds, plus Gift Aid, to donors' chosen charities.

This can be good, because the charity need not be registered with HMRC itself. But it could be a problem if the charity wants to claim under the Gift Aid Small Donations scheme, because for this the charity needs to have made gift aid claims in 2 of the last 4 years. The donations via Givey will not count for this purpose.

tristanh

I've got a friend that is using everydayhero UK. Does anyone know their deductions/charges?

immaginarte

hi all,
I'm soon starting a masters in drama therapy and I would like to set up a page with a video and some info for friends, family relatives to collect some money to support my study.
I found gofundme but I would like to ask you if you know any other website that charge less than them (5%) or that their service is better or justified by their charges.

Thanks in advance!

Savvy_Sue

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It's American, so I'm sure it will have downsides, I don't know what it costs, and I don't know if you're expected to 'offer' something in return. DS1 uses it and pre-releases his computer games earlier to his supporters than to the general public. the more you give, the more you get, eg he'll make a game just for you if you sponsor him enough.

shropshiremum

olddoozer wrote: »

I am an administrator for two charities.
Today I have had an email from TotalGiving.co.uk saying somebody has visited my charity's page there and I ought to register in case that person wishes to make a donation.

The website says that they route donations through Paypal free of charge (other than Paypal's normal charity tariff transaction fees) and it looks as if they just create a front end donations page, nothing more.
However I have never heard of them and although the website has mail address, email and telephone contact details there is no company registered number and other details that one would expect from an organisation that says that it is a "company".

The site has several testimonial type quotes from various people but does not mention who these people actually are or what (if any) organisations they actually represent.

Does anybody know anything about them or have any experience of using them? I am just a tad suspicious.

I have just had exactly the same email from Total, and found it is not listed in Martins page about charity giving. I need to set up for a new charity, the amounts won't be gigantic but I really want to avoid costs if at all possible. Has anybody ever used them, it just sounds a bit too good to be true, and odd that its not mentioned anywhere (if its that good!)

Thanks

harry66

TotalGiving is used by a local charity I know and they are happy with the service.
I am surprised Martin has not added it to his list....

chrisjsalter59

Has anybody got any advice about setting up a crowdfunding page?
My wife died suddenly last week and friends and family want to contribute
towards funeral/memorial costs. Also if donations exceed the costs I would
like the surplus to be passed onto 2 charities that are relevant to what she loved and who she was. Many Thanks.

theartfullodger

Indeed: Do it yourself, then donate with Gift Aid & the charity will get the amount plus 25%.

And, this would clearly be wrong, if you were a higher rate tax-payer you could reduce your tax bill: But don't do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_Aid