# New software tool to help small charities move beyond spreadsheets for fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/05/21/new-software-tool-to-help-small-charities-move-beyond-spreadsheets-for-fundraising/
- Published: 2013-05-21T15:15:59+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Bee Software, part of the Blue Tree Fundraising agency, has created [Funded](http://www.bee-software.co.uk/),
a new software product for smaller charities to help them with their fundraising.

 

The system will allow charities to log their donor records, add contacts, search
data by geography and cause, write appeal letters, record correspondence and produce
reports.  It has also been “written with non-technical users in mind”.

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Matthew Adam, one of the directors of the company, said: “Some time ago we noticed
that many small charities required a low-cost system to track all of the appeals
they made throughout the year as well as analysing their data in a better way.

 

“However there were only expensive software systems available that did far more 
than was needed, so most just relied on Excel spreadsheets, which can be inadequate
as you grow.”

 

He added: “The small guys need as much help as the bigger guys but sometimes this
part of the market-place is forgotten or has low-quality products. We are trying
to rectify that!”

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