# Oxfam brings in 14% of its London Marathon income online

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/05/07/oxfam-brings-14-its-london-marathon-income-online/
- Published: 2002-05-07T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

More than 14% of this year’s London Marathon fundraising total for Oxfam has come
in online through the charity’s partnership with Bmycharity.

Four months after launching its online sponsorship Web site, more than 14% of Oxfam’s
sponsorship donations from this year’s London Marathon has come in online through
Bmycharity.

John Mercer, Oxfam’s London Marathon coordinator, has championed the development
of Oxfam’s e-fundraising strategy. He says “Bmycharity’s online reporting helps 
us to process donations more cost-effectively than cash and cheque donations. Our
runners find this kind of fundraising easy and enjoyable.”

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Oxfam’s Bmycharity Web site enables Oxfam to control the content of all sites created
by individuals engaged in sponsorship events. It also helps by simplifying the accounting
and data management aspects of fundraising, and reduces costs for the finance and
IT departments.

Bmycharity partner charities have so far raised more than £6,800 each on average
from the Marathon alone. Charity partners include Save the Children, Diabetes UK,
Shelter, the National Asthma Campaign, the Children’s Society, Breakthrough Breast
Cancer and NCH.

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