Virtual fundraising tools for the coronavirus period

As more fundraising switches to digital and virtual fundraising, the variety of fundraising platforms that support these options becomes more obvious. Charities and, more importantly, people who want to support a charity have a fantastic range of tools that can help support them in whatever way they wish to donate or to raise funds with or from others.   Fundraising and giving platforms First, if you simply wish to donate, there are plenty of digital platforms to choose from: JustGiving Virgin Money Giving LocalGiving Charity Checkout CAF Donate The Big Give The Good Exchange and more. Virgin Money Giving has waived all its fees for the duration of the lockdown. Some specialise in mobile giving such as text donations: Givey Donr Thyngs RSM2000 Thyngs has just partnered with card-linking API provider Fidel to help maximise Gift Aid donations, and RSM2000 has recently partnered with Mobicash to expand its offering. There are also plenty of crowdfunding sites where individuals, groups and charities can run campaigns that you can donate to e.g. GlobalGiving GoFundMe Crowdfunder Some of the above platforms enable you to fundraise or give in multiple ways e.g. setting up your own fundraising event on behalf of a charity, or donating and crowdfunding. There is also Facebook, which offers individuals, companies and charities a range of fundraising and giving tools. You've probably already been invited by Facebook to set up a Facebook birthday fundraiser campaign: that is just one of their fundraising tools.   Stuck at home? What you can do The list below attempts to give individuals and charities a sense of the many ways in which it is possible to fundraise for or give to your favourite charity even while you having to remain at home under lockdown during the coronavirus period. There is almost no limit to the approaches and creativity that individuals are taking to keep supporting charities. And there are platforms that can help - or inspire you to do something, whatever you idea!   1. Affiliate shopping Online shopping is even more attractive to many of us. Fortunately we can generate donations for charities when shopping online at no cost to us, via a number of online platforms. 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Rounding up and micro-donations Roundups Roundups works with your bank to round-up automatically all of your card payments (to 10p, 50p or £1 – you choose), donate the difference to a good cause of your choice "and report back on the amazing impact of your penny donations." https://twitter.com/roundupsorg/status/1250095855559999491   Pennies Micro-donation service Pennies works with brands such as Screwfix, Domino's and Rontec, letting customers top-up their payment as a gift to the company's charity partner. It has raised £23 million so far for over 600 charities. For the first time it has launched a direct appeal to the public, to enable consumers to give 'micro-donations' in support of two national charities directly combating the impacts of Covid-19 in the UK: The National Emergencies Trust and NHS Charities Together.   3. Double your donations Some platforms offer to double the value of donations made, either through the platform company itself or an individual, trust or corporate donor. Check to see if the matched giving option is permanent or for select campaigns.   The Big Give Aiming to raise £1.35 million with its Covid-19 Emergency Appeal, The Big Give is urging the public to donate through its website to see their gifts doubled, pound for pound, until the £611,000 match funding pot is emptied. Match funding has been donated by a range of generous partners, including the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust, the Reed family, Reed Foundation and Cazenove Capital (Schroders). 4. Donating unwanted goods VintageGiving.com VintageGiving.com turns unwanted old and vintage items quickly and easily into funds for charities. They say that, typically, a donated box is worth around £80. Currently the company is "boosting the value of all boxes sent to us from charities and their supporters by 10%."   5. Giving accounts If you give regularly to multiple charities or wish to do so by setting up a family giving account, there are various platforms that support this kind and other kinds of approach: Stewardship Charities Aid Foundation   6. Fundraising from playlists GivePenny .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } GivePenny is running a free webinar on how this works on 17 April.     7. Virtual events Trac4Good https://twitter.com/trac4good/status/1240177967164252165?s=12 Funraisin Funraisin offers a range of peer-to-peer and DIY fundraising event services. It has also, with massive, set up a range of resources to help charities fundraise during the coronavirus period.     CharityCheckout CharityCheckout, the fundraising, donations and events registration platform, has integrated with Strava for its virtual events and fundraising product. This will enable charity supporters to record and easily share their indoor or outdoor fitness activity as well as giving them the ability to update videos and pictures from their runs, cycles or at home workouts. The integration of Strava is part of a wider update of its Fundraising and Event registration product to enable charities to better navigate the COVID-19 crisis.   Crowdfunder Crowdfunder has expanded from its standard crowdfunding campaigns to enable charities to run virtual video events in lieu of their physical version to replace lost income. These range from comedy nights, to music events, pub quizzes and sports engagement. Crowdfunder is "100% free for charity fundraising projects during the crisis".   8. Payroll giving Charitable Giving https://twitter.com/CharitbleGiving/status/1250784136656236544 Geared for Giving https://twitter.com/GearedforGiving/status/1247807398992990209 Geared for Giving helps anyone - not just Premier League players! - donate to charity via payroll giving.   9. Corporate support Work for Good Work for Good lets companies link giving to charity through their sales. It has recently removed membership fees for companies. https://twitter.com/RAINYDAYTRUST/status/1242141653856595968   In Kind Direct In Kind Direct is a charity that distributes donated stock from over 1,200 companies to 10,000 charities in need. Companies can donate products at any time. It is currently benefiting from a hashtag campaign by Andrex which is offering to donate up to £100,000 to the charity.   https://twitter.com/InKindDirect/status/1249974487090704385   If your company wants to give in other non-financial ways you can offer your services via the government's business support service: https://twitter.com/martinlugton/status/1243497942620741632     10. Streaming Streaming is one of the biggest opportunities for fundraising in these times. And it's not because of the scale and popularity of online gaming. That's important of course, but the real significance of streaming is that it is about people's passions and skills, and sharing that with their 'tribe' of people who share that passion. People will pay to watch, play alongside, learn from and engage with people who are amongst the best in their area - whatever that is. Tiltify  US company Tiltify expanded its services to the UK last year. It is the official fundraising partner of streaming site Twitch. Comedian Richard Herring chose to use it this year for his annual 'When's International Men's Day' fundraising campaign for Refuge. https://twitter.com/Herring1967/status/1236583587660681217   GivePenny GivePenny lets individuals fundraise by doing that they love, by integrating with a whole range of activity, sporting, leisure and entertainment apps like Strava and Spotify.   JustGiving JustGiving offers a streaming and gaming option too.   11. Online lotteries and raffles Plenty of charities including hospices run online lotteries, and this is another option under lockdown for those who want to donate to charity with the possibility of a cash win.   GivingLottery The GivingLottery, from The Giving Machine, is way for schools, charities and community groups to raise funds. Players have the chance to win £25,000 while supporting causes that matter to them from just £1 a week.   12. Online auctions Individuals and charities can still turn valuable items into donations via online auctions.   eBay for Charity eBay for Charity supports over 30,000 UK charities. When listing an item for sale, individuals can consider donating a percentage of the sale to a cause of their choice – from 10% to 100%. The site currently has nominated NHS Charities Together as its latest Give at Checkout partner.   Elmwoods Auctioneers Elmwoods in West London is one auctioneer that runs online auctions. On 23 April it is holding an online jewellery auction to raise funds for the National Emergencies Trust.     12. Other platforms There are of course many other platforms that aren't designed for fundraising but which have turned out to enable them in various ways, not least video app Zoom. https://twitter.com/l007eag/status/1250155307663269888?s=12 People and charities using Zoom don't have a built-in fundraising option of course, so usually set up a fundraising campaign on one of the standard giving platforms. But there are tools available to help build in fundraising to the Zoom, Skype or Rooms experience.   The Giving Room The Giving Room has been developed in partnership with PurplePot, the contactless giving service for companies, workplaces and business events. It is encouraging thousands of business people setting up online video conferences on platforms such as Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts and Microsoft Teams to insert a simple donation weblink or QR code into their next few meetings.      Did we miss your online giving or fundraising platform from our list? Or miss out a whole type of virtual fundraising? Let us know. We're only listing platforms that serve a UK audience, and we aren't aiming to be comprehensive. If your fundraising platform could benefit from additional promotion on UK Fundraising please contact Catherine Chin and Dawn Ray for details.

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