70+ UK Charity Fundraising Platforms

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It lists and includes links for platforms, including auction/sell, cards & vouchers, connecting with business/volunteers, contactless, events, fundraising, impact investing, lottery, muslim, recycling, shopping and text donations services.

Auction/Sell

1. Amazon Smile - donations and you can also publish wish lists for your supporters.
2. E-Bay for Charity - receive donations and sell items.
3. Givergy – mobile and tablet auctions.
4. Vintage Giving  - donation of old or vintage items.
5. Good Good Giving - participants choose an experience they want to win, and donate an amount from as little as ￡10 to be in with a chance.
6. Charity Shop Exchange - collect books and DVDs from you and sell them.
7. Refashion - donate clothes to be sold online.
8. Thrift+ - donate clothes to be sold online.

Cards & Vouchers

1. Charity Vouchers - recipient donates value of voucher to a UK charity of their choice.
2. Don't Send Me A Card - receive donations, in lieu of cards.
3. Making A Difference – charity cards and e cards.
4. Charity Worker Discounts - money saving deals and vouchers.
5. Charity Vouchers – buy vouchers to donate to charities.

Connecting With Business & Volunteers

1. aDoddle - online community map that links charities to local businesses and volunteers.
2. Investors In Community – donate funds, gifts or volunteer.
3. Ethical Angel - matching charities to businesses looking to help.
4. Art for Charity - uniting charities, artists and companies to raise funds.
5. Neighbourly – connects businesses to good causes.
6. Semble - bringing community groups together with businesses and volunteers.
7. What Charity - volunteers, goods, services and funding from the public.

Contactless

1. National Funding Scheme – integrated text, web and contactless. 
2. Good Box  - contactless payments.
3. Good Thyngs - contactless donations, using QR codes.
4. Tap Simple - contactless donation app. Website makes them look like a charity, but this is a commercial company.

Events

1. Change Star Charity Calendar – free online advertising for your events

These are paid for, but allow you to book individual places, rather than make block bookings, so can work for small charities. Alternatively, they also list events and offer some guides and resources on their websites.

1. Run For Charity 
2. Sport For Charity – walks and treks, extreme sports and triathlons.
3. Cycle For Charity
4. Do It For Charity

Fundraising Platforms

1. Work for Good - not free, but a social enterprise that re-invests back into the sector, so good people.
2. Maanch - global platform to link funding to high impact projects using the UN SDGs.
3. Donate Pal - donate to multiple charities in one transaction, via website or a mobile app.
4. Fundr - social crowdfunding’ platforms.
5. Ethical Much - get people to post their good deeds and nominate you for ￡5 donated by an ethical business and even have the chance to win prizes themselves.
6. Give A Dinner Party - launching end Apr 20, in Brighton, organise and sell tickets for mini-fundraising events; dinner parties, picnics, barbecues or cocktail evenings
7. Give Panel  – helps non-profits manage their Facebook fundraising.
8. Give Penny - charity sponsorship platform.
9. Give Directly - send money directly to people living in extreme poverty.
10. Tiltify – online fundraising platform.
11. Givey – online fundraising platform, focussed on small charities.
12. Global Giving - global crowdfunding community.
13. Go Fund Me – online fundraising platform.
14. The Good Exchange – online charity matching platform.
15. Just Giving - online fundraising.
16. Local Giving - fundraising campaigns, matched funding, crowd funding.
17. Virgin Money Giving - online fundraising platform.
18. Givey - - online fundraising platform.
19. Golden Giving - charities/social enterprises charged for online payments only. 
20. Charities Trust – a charity itself, takes 4% of Gift Aid to cover costs.
21. Chuffed - fee free crowd funding platform, run by a social enterprise.
22. Local Giving - for local charities, also provides match funding, as well as other regional grant programmes, fundraising advice and support. Not free (￡96 pa), but run by a charity.
23. Charity Check-Out – online fundraising.
24. Big Give - matched funding platform.
25. 46. The Good Exchange - online funder matching platform.
26. 47. PayPal Giving Fund - raise funds through PayPal, eBay and other platforms.
27. 48. Raisely - donors invited to add optional processing fee, need to use Stripe payment service.
28. 49. Kindlink - organises supporters, donations and beneficiary records all on one platform.

You can find an assessment of all the main platforms here.

Impact Investing

1. Try the Good Finance online social investment tool or;
2. Big Society Capital.  
3. Here’s a Social Impact Bond toolkit and;
4. Another to find investors, funds and advisers. 
5. Barrow Cadbury Trust - investments and grants for organisations providing support services for charities and social enterprises in England seeking social investment.
6. Kiva  - peer to peer lending.
7. CAF Online – banking, online donations, investments, loans, savings accounts.
8. Wadappt – using blockchain to match impact investors with companies. Very interesting concept, but I don’t know anything about them, so you need due diligence, if you were considering. Not UK based.

Lottery

1. GivingLottery - a weekly lottery that enables good causes to raise funds at no cost. You get your own lottery page that you can customise with your branding.

Muslim Platforms

1. Taha Funder - global crowdfunding platform.
2. MuslimGiving.org - fundraising platform.
3. My10Nights - automates donations over the last 10 nights of Ramadan for Laylatul Qadr.

Recycling

1. Recycle4Charity - funding for recycled printer inkjet cartridges.
2. RecyclingforGoodCauses - funding for whole range of items; watches, phones, stamps etc.
3. Terracycle - recycle hard to recycle goods to earn points for your charity.

If you're working with a commercial recycling partner, you may wish to ensure they've signed up to the TRUST registration scheme.

Shopping Platforms

1. Amazon Smile - Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice.
2. Charitable Bookings - hotel/restaurant booking site with donations to charities.
3. Every Click - raise money by asking your supporters to use their web browser.
4. Easy Fundraising - another online shopping fundraiser.
5. Give As You Live – yet another shopping fundraiser, but also has an I phone app version.

Social Media

1. GoPoolit - friends, family and followers on GoPoolit have the option of giving (or ‘pooling’) between 1-10p to that post, and therefore the charity it supports. The more viral users go, the more opportunity to raise microdonations. Users can nominate a different charity for each post if they want to.

Text Donation Services

1. The best UK text donation services from Charity Digital News.

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Sources: Google, Charity Digital News, UK Fundraising.

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