# JustGiving wins "best use of technology award" in Sunday Times Tech Track 100

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/12/07/justgiving-wins-quotbest-use-technology-awardquot-sunday-times-tech-track-100/
- Published: 2009-12-07T17:11:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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JustGiving, the UK’s largest online fundraising website, has been awarded the “best
use of technology award” at the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 awards. The Sunday Times
Tech Track 100 is a list of the fastest growing private technology companies in 
the UK.

 

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A new entry this year at 34, JustGiving is the only company in the list to provide
its technology services exclusively to the third sector. It is also the only company
in the top 50 led by women – CEO Zarine Kharas and MD Anne-Marie Huby.

 

Kerry Glover, Deputy Head of Fundraising at Dogs Trust said, “It is great to see
a business that serves the third sector in the tech track 100. Charities need the
very best services to carry out their work, and this award is a testament to JustGiving’s
vision and investment in providing brilliant online fundraising services. We have
worked with JustGiving for a number of years, most recently on a prototype of a 
web services offering, so we’ve seen their technical expertise first-hand and always
appreciate their help and support.”

 

Kharas said, “We’re delighted to have featured in this list for the first time, 
and it is testament to the enthusiasm of our charities, fundraisers and donors that
we are growing so quickly. Charity fundraising is all we do and all our services
are designed to help charities raise more and cut their administration costs.

Earlier this summer we overhauled our technologies and launched a new version of
our website to make fundraising and giving easier and faster. And we are continuing
to invest in new technology: integrating our service with leading social networking
platforms such as Facebook, creating new ways of giving, and further automating 
the way we feed our data into our charities’ own systems, saving them time and money.”

 

### Notes for editors

 

 [⌊Tech Track 100 Best of technology award⌉](http://www.flickr.com/photos/justgiving/4129957131)

 

### About JustGiving

 

JustGiving is the UK’s largest online fundraising platform and has helped over 10
million people raise over £540 million for over 8,000 charities since 2001. In 2009,
JustGiving’s CEO Zarine Kharas was awarded the RSA’s Albert Medal for “democratising
fundraising and technology for charities”

www.justgiving.com

 

Interviews with Zarine and Anne-Marie are available – contact Heather Bird on 0207
067 0900 or he*****@********ng.com

 

**About the league table: **

 

Now in its ninth year, The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 annual league table
is compiled by Oxford-based research and networking events company Fast Track.

In addition to its title sponsor Microsoft, the league table is co-sponsored by 
Barclays Commercial Bank and BDO Stoy Hayward.

 

**League table criteria:**

 

Companies are ranked by their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in sales over their
latest three financial years between 2005 and 2008, or 2006 and 2009. A minimum 
of 25 weeks’ trading in the base and latest years was required. For financial years
lasting less or more than 52 trading weeks, figures were annualised on a simple 
pro-rata basis.

 

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