Inspiration
Case studies, tips and guides from charities raising more with DONATE™.
Injured Jockeys Fund: Graham Lee Auction
How the Injured Jockeys Fund raised £40,000 in a December auction for injured jockey Graham Lee, featuring lots from trainers Paul Nicholls, Karl Burke and a golf round with Sir AP McCoy.
Capture Tourist Donations with Our Summer Fundraising Ideas
Four practical strategies for charities and visitor attractions to engage summer tourists as donors using digital giving tools.
5 Steps to a Great Text Giving Campaign for Your Charity
A five-step practical guide for charities on planning, launching and promoting an effective text giving campaign.
Ideas for PTA Fundraising This Spring and Easter
Five digital fundraising ideas for parent-teacher associations to run engaging spring and Easter campaigns.
12 Giving Days of Christmas
Twelve case studies of charitable organisations demonstrating successful digital fundraising through the DONATE platform during the Christmas season.
How to Incorporate Contactless Giving into Your Venue
Five practical tips for visitor attractions and charitable venues to introduce contactless giving systems that maximise donations from visitors.
Fundraising During an Economic Downturn
Practical guidance for charities on maintaining and growing fundraising income during difficult economic times.
Auctions and How to Plan Them
A guide to planning and running successful online charity auctions, with a case study from the Friends of Shuttleworth.
Wintershall CIO: Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square
How Wintershall CIO raised £1,321 through text donations during a live Trafalgar Square performance with simultaneous Facebook livestream reaching 6,900 viewers.
The Spotlight – How Small Charities Are Creating a Huge Impact
A showcase of seasonal spotlight editions highlighting how small charities use the DONATE platform to raise vital funds through creative digital fundraising strategies.
Text Raffle Changes
An update on changes to the DONATE platform's text raffle setup process, covering new mandatory lottery licence requirements and automated keyword allocation.
Inaugural Auction for the Tiggy Hancock Trust
How the newly founded Tiggy Hancock Trust raised £59,000 in their first ever auction, supporting young equestrians' mental health in memory of 15-year-old show-jumper Tiggy Hancock.
Digital Gift Aid
How Gift Aid works within the DONATE platform, helping charities claim an additional 25% on eligible donations.
Virtual Giving Programme
A guide to converting one-off virtual event donations into long-term regular monthly giving programmes using digital tools.
Auction of Promises: Shuttleworth Veteran Aeroplane Society
How the Shuttleworth Veteran Aeroplane Society raised £10,600 through a 28-lot online auction featuring rare aviation experiences, replacing cancelled air shows during the pandemic.
Spotlight Spring: How Small Charities Are Creating a Huge Impact
A spring 2021 review of fundraising campaigns by smaller DONATE charity partners, featuring animal conservation, essential services, and personal fundraising initiatives.
Contactless Giving for Conservation
How the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust rolled out contactless giving across 70% of their UK reserves, capturing donations from visitors who no longer carry cash.
Fire Brigade Union – Uniting in Times of Need
How the Fire Brigades Union uses DONATE™ to create memorial donation pages for bereaved families following the death of firefighters, raising £16,000 since January 2021.
Hybrid Fundraising into the New Year
How charities can evolve their digital fundraising strategies into hybrid in-person and online events as the world reopens.
Winter Spotlight: Christmas Special – How Small Charities Are Creating a Huge Impact
A Christmas edition showcasing festive fundraising activity by smaller charity partners using DONATE™, from school raffles to Christmas dinners for dogs.
Text Raffles for Schools and PTAs
How schools and parent-teacher associations across the UK replaced traditional paper raffles with digital text raffles, with results including £870 profit for Grand Avenue Primary and double the previous year for Eversholt Academy Trust.
Covid-19: Food 4 Heroes Epic Auction
How Food 4 Heroes raised £23,066 through an online auction to fund nutritious meal deliveries for frontline NHS workers, closing with a live-streamed VIP event for 250 guests.
Vauxhall City Farm: Contactless Giving
How Vauxhall City Farm transformed their donation income with contactless giving - raising £2,974 through 2,961 transactions - and maintained giving levels post-lockdown despite reduced visitor numbers.
Autumn Spotlight: Virtual Conferences, Musical Marathons and Religious Giving
An autumn 2020 showcase of three diverse organisations using DONATE™ - a community food share, a virtual trade conference, and a church receiving text donations during Sunday services.
Furnishing Industry's Fast and Furious Fundraiser
How the Furniture Makers' Company raised £12,500 in their first online charity auction, featuring 40 lots including Chelsea Flower Show tickets, artwork, and luxury experiences.
Religious Festival Giving – Mauritian Marathi Society
How the Mauritian Marathi Society used text and web giving during a virtual Ganesh Chaturthi festival to raise donations from participants unable to attend in person.
Summer Spotlight: Virtual Music Festivals, Borderlands Treasure and a Local School
A summer 2020 edition featuring three fundraising stories - a virtual music festival, a national borderlands nature conservation campaign, and a local school making PPE for healthcare workers.
Northampton Saints: Signed Shirt Text Raffle
How the Northampton Saints Charitable Foundation raised £1,100 from a text raffle for a signed season shirt, testing digital fundraising with their 15,000-strong fanbase during closed-doors matches.
Saving the Scottish Wildcat
How Wildcat Haven raised £20,113 through text and web giving from their 80,000-strong online community to fund conservation of Scotland's critically endangered wildcat in Clashindarroch Forest.
Red for Ruth: Manchester Test Match
How the Ruth Strauss Foundation raised £289,523 during the England vs West Indies Test at Old Trafford, using text giving promoted via Sky broadcast to fund pre-bereavement cancer support.
How to Understand Digital Giving Platforms and Prices
Four key tips to help charities evaluate and choose the right digital giving platform for their needs, from integration compatibility to hidden costs.
Fundraising for Survival: Paxton House
How Paxton House, a historic Borderlands property that lost 90% of its income in lockdown, raised over £10,000 through an emergency digital campaign to ensure its survival.
Covid-19: Intensive Care Society Emergency Appeal
How the Intensive Care Society raised £161,904 to support ICU staff on the Covid-19 frontline, with celebrity endorsements including Dame Helen Mirren amplifying the text giving campaign.
Digital Fundraising Sees Surge in Popularity During Lockdown
Research among DONATE™ charities reveals how lockdown accelerated the shift to digital fundraising, with 83% changing their approach and text giving becoming the leading channel.
Covid-19: Big Issue North Hardship Fund
How Big Issue North raised £22,347 to support homeless vendors when street magazine sales were suspended at the start of the UK lockdown in March 2020.
Covid-19: St John's Hospice Comedy Night
How a Bank Holiday comedy show with Jon Richardson reached 114,000 viewers and raised £3,077 for St John's Hospice through text giving during and after the live performance.
Charities Receiving Increased Donations During Pandemic as Generosity Rises
How several charities saw donation surges during the pandemic, and seven practical tips for fundraising during a period when traditional events are cancelled.
Spring Spotlight: Food Banks, Dog Rescue and The Big Night In
A spring 2020 edition featuring a dog rescue charity campaign, a foodbank that raised £9,000, and a local football club that used social media to its full potential.
Academy of Ancient Music – Raising Funds Through Online Concerts
How the Academy of Ancient Music raised £17,998 during lockdown through weekly YouTube streaming concerts and email fundraising to support their musicians.
Covid-19: Emergency Fundraising for Foodbanks
How foodbanks can urgently raise text and web donations from the public using the DONATE platform during the Covid-19 crisis.
Why It's Vital to Think Digital for Fundraising This #GivingTuesday
Key statistics and insights from a National Funding Scheme and Giving Tuesday webinar on why charities must prioritise digital fundraising channels as cash usage continues to decline.
Kids for Quids: Proving the Power of Text Donations
How the National Funding Scheme partnered with The Sun on Sunday for a Christmas text giving campaign that raised funds for children hospitalised over the holiday season.
Oasis Partnership: The Art Box Online Auction
How the Oasis Partnership raised £2,000 through a three-week online auction of 26 exclusive signed monochrome portraits of musicians by photographer Simon Sarin, with a Debbie Harry print surging from £50 to £505.
Contactless Comes of Age: Vauxhall City Farm
How Vauxhall City Farm trialled contactless giving at the Lambeth Country Fair and raised £400 via tap+DONATE™ - from visitors who had no cash.
King's Community Church: Sunday Service Text Giving
How King's Community Church in Southampton generates nearly £400 per month from casual visitors and students through text giving prompted during Sunday services.
How Charities Can Maximise Fundraising When an Emergency Hits
Why speed is everything in emergency fundraising appeals, and how text giving enables charities to capitalise on heightened public generosity during a crisis.
UK Emergency Appeal to Support Notre Dame, Paris Rebuild Fund
The National Funding Scheme launches a UK text and web giving channel to support the international effort to rebuild Notre Dame cathedral after the devastating April 2019 fire.
Text Giving Is Now Available to Small and Medium Sized Charities
A five-step guide to launching a text giving campaign, from building your campaign and choosing a platform to picking the right keyword and marketing it effectively.
My Name'5 Doddie Foundation: Stadium Text Giving
How the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation raised £26,900 through text giving at rugby matches, with 82% of donations through the £5 channel and options for recurring monthly gifts.
JustTextGiving Closure in March 2019
With JustTextGiving closing in March 2019, DONATE steps up to ensure no UK charity is left without a text donation service - with no joining, monthly, or ongoing fees.
Research Shows DONATE™ Is 5× More Effective Than Cash Giving
A Shakespeare Schools Foundation comedy event demonstrates how contactless giving through DONATE™ generated five times more income than traditional cash collection from the same audience.
Shakespeare Schools Foundation: Contactless Giving at Comedy Night
How Shakespeare Schools Foundation raised five times more through contactless giving than cash at a 370-person comedy evening, proving that tap+DONATE reaches donors that cash cannot.
Contactless, Web or Text: Which Service Is Best?
A guide to understanding when to use contactless, web, or text giving - and how to choose the right digital fundraising channel for your situation.
DONATE™ Launches Free Silent Auction Service
DONATE™ introduces a free silent auction platform for charities, completing an integrated fundraising suite covering text giving, raffles, web donations, and now auction capability.
St Cadoc's Youth Club: Kiev Champions League Final Raffle
How St Cadoc's Youth Club raised nearly £20,000 from 3,975 donations in two weeks using a text raffle for Champions League final tickets, amplified by Liverpool player Andrew Robertson's Instagram post.
Charlie Watkins Foundation: White-Collar Boxing Night
How the Charlie Watkins Foundation raised £6,856 through personalised text and web giving links at a white-collar boxing fundraiser, with integrated contactless giving on the night.
Dixons Carphone for The Mix
How Dixons Carphone used a text raffle of surplus inventory to raise £1,856 for mental health charity The Mix, while reducing costs, eliminating cash handling, and increasing staff participation.
Middlesbrough FC & Teesside Hospice: Stadium Text Raffle
How Middlesbrough FC partnered with Teesside Hospice to raise £1,365 in two days through a text raffle for signed shirts, eliminating cash handling and paper tickets for over 460 supporters.
How Barclaycard Helped the National Funding Scheme Adapt to Modern Consumer Payment Habits
A case study exploring how the National Funding Scheme partnered with Barclaycard to develop contactless giving technology that enables charities to capture donations from cashless supporters.
Art 4 Grenfell: Online and Live Auction
How the Kensington & Chelsea Foundation raised £22,500 through a combined online and live art auction in the City, with artworks donated by London's artist community following the Grenfell fire.
Mayor's Fund for London – Contactless Giving in Retail
How community barber salon Barber Streisand raised £4,302 in five days for the Mayor's Fund for London's Kitchen Social campaign, with contactless donations accounting for 86% of the total.
The Data Protection Act Is Dead - What GDPR Means for Charities
How the General Data Protection Regulation replaces the Data Protection Act, and what charities need to do about consent, data profiling, and the right to be forgotten by May 2018.
Shelter: Giving on Tap with Contactless Technology
How Shelter used tap+DONATE contactless terminals at winter carol concerts and public gatherings to raise £1,212 from 404 frictionless donations averaging £3 each.
Launch of tap+DONATE™ Contactless Charity Boxes
DONATE™ introduces contactless charity collection boxes, launching with the Royal Association for Deaf people following a successful trial at the School of Hard Knocks.
DONATE™ Exceeds £500,000 Raised for Charity
The National Funding Scheme announces that DONATE™ has raised over £500,000 for good causes through its mobile giving platform, with charges from just 2.5%.
DONATE™ Voted Most Flexible Digital System of the Year 2017
The National Funding Scheme announces that DONATE™ received the Most Flexible Digital System of the Year award at the 2017 Paperless Awards ceremony in Kensington.
DONATE™ Delivers Local Community Impact: Natural England's Bergum Wood
How DONATE™ helped Natural England raise £7,451 for Bergum Wood restoration in Shropshire, reaching a wider donor base beyond the local community through text and web giving.
East Sheen Primary School: Gala Fundraiser Silent Auction
How East Sheen Primary School PTA raised £14,000 at their annual gala dinner using mobile silent auction bidding, with a Tuscany villa lot achieving 2.5 times its commercial value.
DONATE™ Launches tap+DONATE™ Boxes to Revolutionise Instant Giving
DONATE™ provides contactless giving boxes at the 2017 European Rugby Championships to benefit School of Hard Knocks, demonstrating how contactless giving works at large live events.
Natural England: Restoring Bergum Wood through Outdoor Fundraising
How Natural England raised £12,951 to restore Bergum Wood near the Stiperstones National Nature Reserve through a 3-month text and web giving campaign combining signage, community events, and digital outreach.
DONATE™ Supports Natural England: Restoring Bergum Wood
DONATE™ partners with Natural England to launch a spring fundraising campaign to restore Bergum Wood in Shropshire, transforming barren conifer plantation into upland oak woodland.
The Environment Trust: Text Giving at a Community Talk
How The Environment Trust raised £114 from a single community lecture - with a third of the 70-strong audience donating on the spot via text after Dame Fiona Reynolds asked them to support the cause.
BT Tower Thanksgiving Dinner: Children's Radio Foundation
How Children's Radio Foundation raised £30,000+ at a Thanksgiving dinner at the top of the BT Tower, using mobile silent auction bidding, live auctions, text raffles, and automated Gift Aid processing.
Pharmacist Support: Gala Event Text Raffle
How Pharmacist Support uses DONATE™ text raffles at nationwide gala events to eliminate cash handling and give their central team instant visibility of funds raised, averaging £720 per raffle.
Bishopsland & FloatArt: Gala Fundraiser at the Gherkin
How two arts charities combined live auction, silent auction, text raffle and direct donations at a Gherkin gala dinner to raise £63,740 in a single evening from just 120 guests.
Delete Blood Cancer UK: Let's Make A Spark Gala
How Delete Blood Cancer UK raised £12,500 at a glamorous corporate awards evening hosted by Naga Munchetty at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, using DONATE™ to power the silent auction and donation processing.
Gunge Off! Family Holiday Association at TTG Travel Awards
How TTG Media raised nearly £3,000 for the Family Holiday Association through a live vote-to-gunge fundraiser at the TTG Travel Awards, using text and web giving with a split totaliser display.
Watts Gallery: Saving the Collection with Text & Web Giving
How Watts Gallery raised £10,672 through a 100-mile Physical Energy Challenge from London to the Isle of Wight, with over 70% of donations coming through DONATE™ and an average gift of £63.
Help for Heroes: Hit for 6 Cricket Day at the Kia Oval
How Help for Heroes raised over £60,000 through DONATE™ at a star-studded T20 cricket day at the Kia Oval, with 96% of funds by value coming through mobile web giving.
Battersea Arts Centre: Rising from the Ashes
How Battersea Arts Centre raised £81,273 via web giving after a devastating fire in 2015 - £10,500 in the first 12 hours, with 83% of donors adding Gift Aid and 99% opting in for future contact.
Bournemouth Parks Foundation: Local Authority Fundraising
How Bournemouth Parks Foundation enabled residents and visitors to donate to parks and open spaces via text, QR codes, and web - helping a local authority charity replace reduced government funding.
