Move to charging by free funding news sites
Howard Lake | 18 January 2002 | News
Several Web sites which publish funding news at no charge are introducing fee-based services. Grants on-line started charging users this month for access to its information, as reported earlier. Now both J4B and Access Funds have announced paid-for e-mail notification services.
Several Web sites which publish funding news at no charge are introducing fee-based services. Grants on-line started charging users this month for access to its information, as reported earlier. Now both J4B and Access Funds have announced paid-for e-mail notification services.
J4B will continue to remain “completely free to use for companies wanting to see what support is available to them” but they will soon be “restricting the number of repeat searches that can be made without charge.”
Advertisement
Access Funds has announced that it will provide a tailored e-mail alert service providing up-to-date funding information. Subscribers can choose to receive news in as many of the site’s 31 categories. This e-mail alert will launch on 1 February and will cost £40 per annum for voluntary/community groups and £50 per annum for all others. The Web site will continue to be free to access.
Visit j4b and Access Funds.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.