JustGiving is a global on-line social platform for giving.[3] The corporation’s headquarters are placed in Bankside, London.History[edit]
In 2000, Zarine Kharas and Anne-Marie Huby founded JustGiving, a organization to offer on line equipment and processing services to permit the collection of charitable donations.[2]
2006 was the corporation’s first profitable 12 months.[4] In June 2011, the company claimed that it had supplied its service for more than nine,000 UK registered charities and 1.nine million fundraising pages for users, accumulating over £770 million on account that release.[5]The cumulative total exceeded £1 billion in March 2012.[6] The cumulative overall surpassed £4 billion in June 2016.[7]Fees[edit]
JustGiving charged a five% charge on all donations to cowl the value of walking the enterprise till March 2019, while the rate become made voluntary.[8][nine] In 2008, The Guardian suggested Kharas as acknowledging that “the fee charged through justgiving.com is controversial”.[4]Notable fundraisers[edit]
In 2010 Charlie Simpson, elderly 7, raised over £210,000 (£145,000 within the first forty eight hours) thru his JustGiving page for the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief programme by using UNICEF.[10]
In March 2014, Christian Smith was killed in a crash with a car for the duration of a 24-hour charity motorcycle trip for Mind. Donations thru his JustGiving page rose to greater than £sixty eight,000 after his dying was protected in the media.[eleven]
In April 2014, Stephen Sutton raised over £4.five million for the Teenage Cancer Trust, after help from superstar backers including Jason Manford.
In April 2020, Captain Tom Moore, by the quit of a fundraising stroll, had raised £32,796,one hundred fifty five (the most ever raised on the JustGiving platform) by completing one-hundred, 25 metres (eighty two feet) laps of his garden in Bedfordshire to elevate funds for the UK National Health Service (NHS), to useful resource the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic within the United Kingdom, and to mark his one centesimal birthday on 30 April 2020. The preliminary £1,000 goal become realised on Friday 10, April and the goal turned into extended to £100,000 and then to £500,000 as greater humans round the sector donated. On finishing touch, Moore said he could not prevent and aimed to do a 2nd hundred laps.[12][13]Reception[edit]
In 2002, JustGiving received the New Media Awards Grand Prix award and additionally Best Use of the Web award.[14][15]
In 2004, JustGiving was regarded in the 2004 Charity Times annual Awards in their Fundraising & IT Services category.Charity Times claimed the company had “transformed the face of donating in the UK”.[sixteen]Corporate affairs[edit]Ownership[edit]
JustGiving was received with the aid of U.S.-primarily based Blackbaud, Inc. for £ninety five million in October 2017.[17]International growth and U.S. subsidiary sale[edit]
In 2003, JustGiving released a subsidiary in the United States, converting its call to FirstGiving in 2005. FirstGiving is positioned in Somerville, Massachusetts.[18]In 2010 the New York Times mentioned that FirstGiving.com become “many of the first-class recognised” on line fund-raising web sites.[19]In August 2012, FirstGiving changed into received via FrontStream Holdings, LLC.[20]Finances[edit]
In February 2017, JustGiving was mentioned of taking more than £20 million from fundraisers at the same time as paying workforce as much as £2 hundred,000. It takes a reduce from most donations and whilst a number of the money is used for preservation, product development and charity schooling, debts display that more than £10 million turned into spent on staff fees in 2016. This includes a median salary of more than £60,000 for a few administrators, income and administration people, with the head of the company having earned approximately £198,000. A charity leader govt[who?] had accused JustGiving of being grasping, announcing the charges were ‘hard to belly’ and fundraisers had expressed their anger, labelling the web page ‘JustTaking’.[21]References[edit]^ Whittle, Sally (30 May 2002). “Is it a girl thing?”. The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2012.^ a b c Smithers, Rebecca (6 April 2011). “Charitable giving: BT launches website where one hundred% of donations go to charity”. The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 20 November 2012.^ Walker, Chris. “JustGiving on line charity platform arrives in Australia to make donating easier”. Daily Telegraph. Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2014.^ a b Inman, Phillip (24 March 2008). “Charities go online to live within the going for walks and reach the following technology of givers – JustGiving.com has treated more than £250m in donations because 2001”. The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2012.^ “JustGiving…with the aid of the numbers”. Archived from the unique on 30 June 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2011.CS1 maint: bot: original URL fame unknown (link)^ “£1 billion raised through JustGiving”. Community pages. JustGiving. 28 March 2012. Archived from the unique on 30 March 2012. Retrieved four January 2013.^ “JustGiving overall raised passes £4 billion”. UKFundraising. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.^ Petter, Olivia (26 March 2019). “JustGiving drops five% platform price so extra cash is going to good causes”. The Independent.^ “How our fee works – and what we do for it”. JustGiving. 23 July 2014.^ “London boy increases £145k for Haiti quake aid by using cycling”. BBC News. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2012.^ “Family of Mind charity bicycle owner Christian Smith ‘moved past notion'”. BBC News. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.^ “Army veteran, ninety nine, increases £4m for ‘humbled’ NHS”. BBC News. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.^ Huddleston, Gemma. “Captain Tom Moore’s one centesimal Birthday Walk for the NHS”. JustGiving. Retrieved 1 February 2021.^ “Home”. NMA Efficiency Awards 2006. New Media Age. Archived from the original on 23 December 2005. Retrieved 2 March 2012. … early Grand Prix winners along with … JustGiving in 2002^ “Home”. Nmaawards.co.united kingdom. Retrieved 14 March 2011.[failed verification]^ “UK Charity Awards 2004 winners”. Charitytimes.com. Archived from the unique on 3 February 2007. Retrieved 2 March 2012.^ “Blackbaud completes its £95m takeover of JustGiving”. Retrieved 19 April 2018.^ “FirstGiving Raised $50 Million for Charity and Counting”. 12 September 2007.^ Wallace, Amy (5 September 2010). “Online Giving Meets Social Networking”. The New York Times. Retrieved 29 November 2012.^ “FirstGiving Acquisition By FrontStream”. 6 August 2012.^ Willgress, Lydia (7 February 2017). “JustGiving accused of taking £20m from donations at the same time as paying workforce as much as £two hundred,000″. The Telegraph. Retrieved five September 2018.External links[edit]”JustGiving”. Website. JustGiving.”JustGiving”. Projects. Peldon Rose Group.