# Localcause offers 12 month free accounts for small charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/06/30/localcause-offers-12-month-free-accounts-small-charities/
- Published: 2010-06-30T09:07:36+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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LocalCause, the online portal for smaller charities and community groups, is offering
12 months free access to the site to a limited number of causes.

LocalCause enables small organisations to create and manage a flexible, accessible
and low-cost (£95 a year) web presence to promote their cause and activities. The
organisations can also benefit from having their news, appeals, events and other
information listed and distributed via the portal.

Organisers can add unlimited articles, blogs, publications, campaigns, events and
job vacancies using tools that allow you to easily add text, images and links to
other pages or uploaded documents.

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Community members can then comment on your content, support your cause and campaigns,
sign petitions, sponsor/donate/buy items, attend and participate in events, register
their interest in vacancies and communicate with you via direct messages, chat or
forums. The annual package includes statistical reports to help organisations see
how their content is being viewed.

The 12 months free access offer is available to a limited number of causes, with
the aim of generating more content, and to enable the more active causes to provide
feedback and help influence the future direction of the site. Interested causes 
should contact [Paul Gardner](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/mailto:in**@************rg.uk)
on 0191 536 4781.

LocalCause is a for-profit business, but with “a highly sociable aim”. As well as
reinvesting a “high percentage” of its profits into continual service development,
it offers ongoing support via regular contact with each cause, “highlighting and
rewarding good practice whilst providing advice and support to those who could be
more effective.”

www.localcause.org.uk

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