Just giving

ahai1

You can't transfer money without a password.

Savvy_Sue

I'm still not sure I see your point.

Any secure method which allows almost anyone to put money into a charity's bank account is going to cost money to set up and keep secure. JustGiving have a proven and increasing well-known way of doing this, for which there is a charge. MyCharityPage offers a slightly less well-known way of doing this, which (I think) can be free. Why would I want to put time, money and effort into setting up something different, if more direct?

oldtoolie

If you simply want to make a donation to a charity, write a cheque and put it in the post. Or call the charity to get their bank account number and sort code to make an electronic transfer.

There is little security risk in revealing those bank details -- it is on all of our cheques and on the standing order forms we use for regular giving.

The only cost to the charity is the labour cost of recording your details and banking the cheque. Your details are important if you agree to Gift Aid.

Where Just Giving really shines and provides value for money to charities is in sponsorship or challenge fundraising. Without Just Giving, the fundraisers would have to run around with paper forms trying to collect cash from the friends they could contact face-to-face. Now people can setup a fundraising page on Just Giving or a competitor and send out their fundraising appeal to everyone on their email list. The sponsors receive immediate acknowlegement and a record of their gift if they are a high rate taxpayer and need to put it in their tax return.

For the charity, we receive regular bank transfers from Just Giving, an electronic list of who gave and an accurate tally of how much.

We still do the paper forms, which means matching up cheques to donors, seeing if they declared for Gift Aid, recording the details on the database, producing the Gift Aid claims. It is worth doing but our administrator does get paid so there is a cost.

www.tfsr.org

Savvy_Sue

Completely agree with what you say about JustGiving and sponsored events.

oldtoolie wrote: »

There is little security risk in revealing those bank details -- it is on all of our cheques and on the standing order forms we use for regular giving.

I agree that these details are usually fairly freely available, but I wouldn't put them on a website. I know that in theory it shouldn't be possible to empty an account with just those details, BUT I did read a while back that charities should CONSIDER having separate income and expenditure accounts, following an unfortunate encounter between a highly organised scam/fraud and a charity.

ahai1

They could always run it as a feeder account. Get the money to the account and move it without using it for any other purpose.

GiveItBack

again though, this adds admin time and costs. if you want to pay money to a charity as a donation then by all means phone up and donate by card, they should verbally agree a gift aid too, but they'll need to send you a confirmation. Now say 1 runner gets 100 sponsors, would you want all 100 calling rhe charity - or just use JG?

sebby2007

We're using MyCharityPage.com and the free reporting is great, I'm also able to download all my donors details into an excel spread sheet and they file the gift aid claims for us!! Also our fundraisers can use all their social networking tools, upload videos, photos, add friends, create fundraising groups etc etc.

I would highly recommened this website to anyone.

sebby2007

Here's a link for anyone who wants to have a look:

http://www.mycharitypage.com

ahai1

Is there a fee for it.

sebby2007

Its free to sign up and for your fundraisers to get a page and you get the full donation, so on a £10 donation you'll get £12.82 with the gift aid!