# BBC Children in Need to use Postcode Anywhere to speed up donations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/11/17/bbc-children-need-use-postcode-anywhere-speed-donations/
- Published: 2010-11-17T12:53:14+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

BBC Children in Need will this week speed up the time taken to process donations by using rapid address look-up software from Postcode Anywhere. The software, which is to be supplied free of charge, enables donors to auto-complete an entire postal address from just the postcode. This “cuts data entry time by at least 50%”, say Postcode Anywhere, and should allow the charity to handle a higher volume of transactions on the night. Postcode Anywhere‘s managing director Guy Mucklow said: “Rapid addressing tools which meet this need have been around for a long time, but Postcode Anywhere was the first to use internet technologies to lower the cost of the underlying data, whether the software is used in a desktop application, call centre, or on a website”. Advertisement Charities already using Postcode Anywhere include Oxfam, UNICEF, Girlguiding UK, the British Heart Foundation and Comic Relief. www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/donate Photo: Ewan-M on flickr.com ASI's iMIS 15 is validated as Payment Application Data Security Standard compliant (21 November 2010) VIR2 Ltd and BT offer multi-channel donations to charities (13 December 2010) ESiT Limited changes its name to thankQ (7 January 2011)