Online giving for multiple charities

Welshlassie

I'm looking to find the best online giving site that allows me to set up an event where donations can be split between 2 charities.

One of the charities is a small local one and can't afford to pay the fees that the likes of Virgin are looking to charge.

Thanks for any help you can offer

InsideInsurance

All of the sites like Just Giving and Virgin charge both a considerable fee to join and a fairly significant proportion of the monies raised.

Do you particularly need to use a website to do it? Cant go retro and just use PayPal or bank transfers to collect the monies from those to distant to give you cash?

Welshlassie

Thanks for your comments.

There are a variety of online giving sites that don't charge very much to the charities to receive the donation, but I'm finding it difficult to find which ones will accept donations to be split between 2 charities.

Also by having an online site they collect the gift aid for you and that obviously increases the donations by 25% which can make a huge difference to these smaller charities.

I've done some research I was just wondering if anyone else has already done this so I'm not reinventing the wheel

InsideInsurance

Welshlassie wrote: »

Also by having an online site they collect the gift aid for you and that obviously increases the donations by 25% which can make a huge difference to these smaller charities.

The charities themselves can collect the gift aid, these sites just save them the "administration" of doing it themselves in exchange for their fees

YEOVILGOM

InsideInsurance wrote: »

All of the sites like Just Giving and Virgin charge both a considerable fee to join and a fairly significant proportion of the monies raised.

I have never used either site but just to a look at fees.

Just Giving seems to be 5% of donations plus £15 per month

Virgin seems to be 2% of donations plus one off set up £100

Is this really that high compared to the saving of time etc?

InsideInsurance

YEOVILGOM wrote: »

I have never used either site but just to a look at fees.

Just Giving seems to be 5% of donations plus £15 per month

Virgin seems to be 2% of donations plus one off set up £100

Is this really that high compared to the saving of time etc?

The 5% is on top of the card processing fees for Just Giving.

To me it seems high given how little human interaction is required assuming the system was created by a quarter decent developer.

They claim to have handled over £1.5b in donations so far so £75m in fees excluding card fees or the £2.2 million a year currently gained from subscription fees.

Actually, just looking at their annual accounts for 2012, 1.7m profit from 14m turnover, £372k for the two directors, 5.8m in staffing for 82 members of staff of which only 8 are sales staff.

Savvy_Sue

Martin's already done some of the research: here. It's the splitting between two charities which may be more problematic.

Welshlassie

Thanks SS - That's where I started, but as you say it was the splitting of the donations that I was finding problematic.