Fundraising

1. Local Giving

We recommend you ensure your community group or charity has a page on the LocalGiving.com website. This will enable anybody, anywhere to donate to your group.

As part of your normal fundraising activities some of your supporters might prefer to donate online and will save you from the concerns of volunteers carrying bags of cash around with them.

It is a simple and easy way to fundraise and many groups have already received £1000's from their advert on Local Giving.

To get your group onto the LocalGiving.com site please go to: www.localgiving.com

2. Every Click

• Go to www.everyclick.com
• Click on sign up
• Fill in your details to sign up
• Once you have done that make everyclick your home page and use it as you would use a search engine, i.e. Google
• You can also use it if your shopping online
• you can also just donate

3. Mail Chimp

They have all kinds of social features that help you get to know your subscribers and share your newsletters. You can integrate your signup form with Facebook, share your campaigns on Twitter, track subscriber activity on social networks, and more.

Mail Chimp is Mobile

Their mobile apps make it easy to keep track of campaign performance and add new subscribers anywhere, whether you've got an internet connection or not. And if you develop mobile apps for iPhone or Android, they have some great resources for you, too.

Mail Chimp is connected

More than 70,000 people access Mail Chimp via third party integrations. You can bring your data into Mail Chimp from all kinds of web services like Google Analytics, Highrise, Wufoo and Eventbrite. Easily add signup forms to WordPress, Shopify, Facebook and more.

For more information visit: www.mailchimp.com

4. Microsoft – Charity Technology Exchange

(Please note: this is only available to registered charities)

In an effort to strengthen and support the UK voluntary sector, Microsoft invests in several programmes designed to help voluntary and community organisations make the best use of our technology.

Working with the Charity Technology Trust (Registered Charity No.1073954) through their Charity Technology Exchange service, Microsoft is one of a growing number of technology companies who make donations of their products to the voluntary sector.

As well as software donations, Microsoft also supports initiatives to provide affordable computer hardware, free IT skills training resources, access to skilled IT volunteers and general advice and guidance on technology for charities.

If you would like more information about these programmes please contact 020 3425 1162 or email Donna.Whitehead@microsoft.com

You can also visit www.ctxchange.org

5. Fund raising ideas