Workwithus.org launches multi-function online fundraising service
Howard Lake | 30 April 2006 | News
Edinburgh-based not-for-profit Internet firm Workwithus.org has launched a new online fundraising service for charities throughout the UK. Charities can use it to create a branded fundraising micro-site, allowing their fundraisers and supporters to create a variety of fundraising resources.
Workwithus.org’s new service allows charities to enable their supporters to set up online sponsorship pages, appeal pages, celebration pages for events such as weddings, and in memoriam pages and similar personal fundraising pages.
In addition, Workwithus.org say that the service includes “some of the lowest transaction rates currently available” for credit and debit card donations, namely 1.5% (plus VAT) and bank 1.5% for credit cards or 25p for debit cards (inc VAT).
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Workwithus.org development manager, Alastair Dutton, said: “We have spent the last year working with charities throughout the UK to develop our new service, turning an extensive wish list into a working reality.”
Two charities that are already using the new service are the Scottish Spina Bifida Association and Edinburgh Sick Kids Appeal.
Deborah Roe, Head of Fundraising and Events at the Scottish Spina Bifida Association, said: “Online fundraising now plays a major role in the work of the SSBA. The new service really helps our fundraising efforts, in particular our ‘Gordon Ramsay Buy a Brick Appeal’ where donors can set up their own personal fundraising pages or donate on our very own branded fundraising microsite.”
Maureen Harrison, Director of The Edinburgh Sick Kids Friends Foundation, said: “Workwithus.org has just been fantastic for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation. Our supporters have found that it takes the hassle out of doing a sponsored event”.
Workwithus.org is owned and managed by 14 umbrella charities including the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, Age Concern Scotland and Citizens Advice Scotland. For the last six years they have offered a range of online solutions; training and advice that help organisations raise funds and communicate with their supporters online, and manage their operations more effectively.
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