# DONATE launches text raffle service

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/04/07/donate-launches-text-raffle-service/
- Published: 2016-04-07T11:43:28+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The National Funding Scheme’s DONATE fundraising platform now includes a text 
raffle service, available across all major mobile networks.**

![DONATE's raffle by text example - screenshot](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/
2016/04/donate-text-raffle-screenshot-example.jpg)

_Entering a raffle via DONATE’s text service_

Charities can use the tool to invite donors, event attendees and the public to make
a text donation of £5, £10, £15 or £20 in order to have their mobile number entered
into a raffle draw.

At an agreed moment, DONATE’s system will automatically generate the winning mobile
number or numbers.

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The text-raffle tool means that charities won’t have to handle paper tickets, cash
and unreadable entries. Participants can also be confident that they will be alerted
immediately by text if they have won.

Tim Brocklehurst of Flannels for Heroes, which is raising funds for Walking with
the Wounded and Combat Stress, said:

> “DONATE’s text raffle service is efficient and brilliantly simple enabling anyone
> with a mobile phone to participate. Doing away with scraps of paper, cash and 
> unreadable numbers/addresses is just the sort of innovation the charity sector
> needs.”

The [National Funding Scheme](https://www.nationalfundingscheme.org/portal/register)‘
s DONATE offers a suite of tools and data capture services to help maximise fundraising
campaigns.

 * **[Charities turn to phone payments as fewer people carry cash](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/05/24/charities-turn-phone-payments-fewer-people-carry-cash/)**(
   24 May 2016)
 * **[Barber raises over £3,700 in 5 days with Donate™ for Mayor’s Fund for London](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/02/13/barber-raises-3700-5-days-donate-mayors-fund-london/)**(
   13 February 2018)
 * **[DONATE adds simpler text-only registration process](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/17/donate-adds-simpler-text-registration-process/)**(
   17 January 2019)

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