Brain Tumour Research raised 85% more year over year and raised £320 per JustGiving Fundraising Page for its 2024 virtual fundraising event. But how? By paying attention to the keys to social fundraising success. Knowing this can make your charity’s fundraising simpler, faster, and way more efficient – and Brain Tumour Research used this knowledge for two successful fundraising events in 2024. First, let’s look at the keys to social fundraising success (or skip straight to the charity’s story). The 3 keys to social fundraising success In our recent webinar, GivePanel shared the three fa ..read more

Winter is coming, and so is the giving spirit! This means, if you haven’t already, it’s time to start planning your winter fundraising campaign. Today we’ll share three successful examples from charities like yours. We encourage you to use these as fuel for your own campaign to boost donations AND bring your community closer together. Get ahead of the pack and create your campaign now to get your supporters on board and raise more! Let’s make this your best winter campaign yet. Our new 2024 Winter Fundraising Guide Get our free guide for everything your charity needs to run a successful wint ..read more

What a year it’s been – and it’s just halfway over! 2024’s already seen the record-breaking 2024 London Marathon, the biggest London Landmarks Half Marathon ever, and so many more exciting fundraising events. And we’ve been busy the past few months working to make event fundraising event even simpler to help your charity drive donations around the year, and around the clock. Here are our recent updates, from an exciting new integration to the incremental optimisations that all add up to drive big impact: (click to jump to each section): Event Fundraising: announcing ..read more

Today’s the day.  Voting for the 2024 GoCardless JustGiving Awards is now open! This year, a record-breaking 18,000 of the world’s most outstanding fundraisers were nominated. And of those 18,000,  21 were hand-picked by our celebrity judging panel as finalists. These humans achieved amazing fundraising feats. Put their heart and soul into their fundraising. Tossed traditional thinking aside. And they went WAY above and beyond for the charities and causes they love. Meet them now and vote for your favourites  Vote now How difficult is it to choose the world’s most in ..read more

It’s about halfway through the year, and we want to get you closer to your 2024 fundraising goals. From today ‘til 31st July 2024, anyone who creates a JustGiving Fundraising Page for Great North Run 2024 (Event ID 8540120) has a chance at one of 10x £200 donations! Here’s how it works and how you can use it to raise more money toward your mission. Get your Great North Run fundraisers an extra £200 Let’s talk numbers…  Great North Run sees 60,000 runners and millions of pounds raised. It’s the world’s biggest half marathon, and a major event fundraising opportunity for charities i ..read more

From 12th June 2024, the first 4,000 London Marathon fundraisers to create a JustGiving Fundraising Page will get a £5 donation to kickstart their fundraising…on us!  With the public ballot now closed, it’s time for charities to get planning and prepped for their runners to start fundraising. Here’s how to get your charity’s 2025 event fundraising off to a flying start.  Free £5 donations for London Marathon 2025 fundraisers on JustGiving  More money’s raised in London Marathon on JustGiving than any other fundraising platform. In 2024, London Marathon runners used JustGiving ..read more

The London Marathon 2025 public ballot has now closed. Is your charity in planning mode?  Today we’re announcing three new ways we’re going to help your charity raise even more money in London Marathon next year.  Because JustGiving isn’t just the world’s most trusted fundraising platform. It’s the most trusted London Marathon fundraising platform. In 2024, charities used JustGiving to raise over £42 million in London Marathon – the most raised on any platform!  It’s time to meet your goals faster, get your cause in front of more people, and get your supporters raising more mon ..read more

So you want to level up your charity’s London Marathon fundraising game. Maybe you didn’t reach your target last year. Or maybe you just want to aim higher in 2025: more fundraisers, more donations, more money raised for your mission. Leukaemia Care is a national charity that helps support people and their families affected by blood cancer diagnoses. In 2024’s London Marathon, the charity ran a campaign that… Received over 800 applications, with 253 runners taking part on the day Raised £687,000+ And achieved an average Fundraising Page value of £2,719 Outstanding! But what kind of a team d ..read more

Imagine if your computer’s keyboard suddenly disappeared.  You may be able to navigate a bit with the mouse or turn on voice commands to try to get around.  But think about planning your fundraising campaigns. Responding to your supporters on social media. Writing up presentations for your team… Potentially impossible!  Now consider one billion (about one in every seven) people live with a significant disability or impairment, that may make using the tech others use daily challenging for them.  We’ve seen how more people than ever are choosing to fundraise online. Online c ..read more

London Marathon fundraising is enormous and only continues to grow.  In 2024, charities used JustGiving to raise a record-breaking £42 million (and counting) in London Marathon!  And now we’ve set our sights on helping charities go even bigger next year.  2025? Didn’t the 2024 event just finish?  That’s right. We know it seems early. But London Marathon places are already open for 2025, runners are signing up, and charities are starting to plan.  Now the thought of preparing for an event this size might seem intimidating.  Perhaps as intimidating as running the r ..read more