# Bmycharity to merge with Help for Heroes

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/03/16/bmycharity-merge-help-heroes/
- Published: 2010-03-16T13:43:56+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Online fundraising service Bmycharity, which last week announced it was to close,
has today announced that it will continue by merging with services charity Help 
for Heroes. In a [blog post](http://bmy.typepad.com/making_giving_better/2010/03/bmycharity-commission-free-service-continues-in-partnership-with-help-for-heroes.html),
founder Ben Brabyn said that the new service would be rebranded and renamed Bmyhero.**

He assured those charities using the service that “Bmycharity and H4H [Help for 
Heroes] will honour the terms of existing Bmycharity contracts” and that both parties
were committed to Bmycharity’s focus on commission-free online fundraising.

[Bmycharity](http://www.bmycharity.com) originally announced that it was to close
following its failure to secure investment to help it expand further.

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Brabyn, a former Royal Marine, told UK Fundraising that the partnership with the
services charity was “a very elegant solution”. Help for Heroes’ technology resources,
its public reputation, and its “fantastic corporate supporter relationships” meant
that the combination would help the service expand and help charities even more.

In practice, Bmyhero will be owned by Help for Heroes Trading Co Ltd, the wholly
owned trading subsidiary of Help for Heroes, the charity. The profits from Help 
for Heroes Trading are used to cover all the administrative costs of both the charity
and the trading company.

Brabyn added: “H4H’s trading company and technology partners will invest in developing
the service to remain at the cutting edge of online fundraising innovation”.

Help for Heroes Chief Executive Bryn Parry said: “At H4H, we do everything we can
to ensure that every penny we receive goes to the cause and so we want to be sure
that Bmycharity can continue to offer their free service to the charity sector”.

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