# Justgiving reaches one million online donors mark

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/11/justgiving-reaches-one-million-online-donors-mark/
- Published: 2005-09-11T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**One million people have made an online donation through Justgiving since the website
went live in 2001.**

Almost £40 million has been raised online for 1,200 charities by one million donors
making a donation or sponsoring a friend at Justgiving. Almost £25 million of that
total has been donated in 2005 alone.

More than 100,000 people have used the site to build a personal fundraising page
to collect donations for a sponsored event or personal appeal.

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Justgiving was launched in 2001 by its CEO, former City lawyer Zarine Kharas, and
Managing Director Anne-Marie Huby, who was previously executive director of Médecins
Sans Frontières UK.

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