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Real fundraising stories from charities, schools and community groups using DONATE™.
Breaking the Cycle: The Weavers’ 380-mile Ride
How the Worshipful Company of Weavers turned five riders into a £26,000+ team fundraiser for women in prison, with a personal page for every rider, £12,500 in match funding and nothing to reconcile at the end.
A Piece of Company History: an Energy Company's Charity Auction
How a major North Sea energy company ran a private, password-protected live auction of 72 lots of its own artwork and memorabilia, raising £7,468 for Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance and CLAN Cancer Support without a penny passing through company accounts.
Sea Shepherd: a Standing Start and a Month of Challenges
How the team behind Sea Shepherd's UK affiliate went from a standing start to a three-team challenge month, with open sign-up, a personal page for every supporter and £2,740 raised in their first month of fundraising.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
