# Just 1 Project sets challenge of raising £500,000 in five months through social media alone

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/07/11/just-1-project-sets-challenge-raising-500000-five-months-social-media/
- Published: 2016-07-11T09:29:04+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A project has launched that aims to raise £500,000 for five charities in five 
months using just social media.**

The [Just 1 Project](http://www.justoneproject.co.uk), created by author, TED-X 
speaker and behaviourist, Jez Rose, asks people to donate one pound and then to 
share the project with their social networks. The five charities who will benefit
from The Just 1 Project are: [Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity](http://www.roalddahl.com/charity);
[BASICS Hertfordshire](http://www.basics-herts.org.uk/); [Brain Tumour Research](https://www.braintumourresearch.org/);
[Youth Sport Trust](https://www.youthsporttrust.org/) and [Contented Dementia Trust](http://www.contenteddementiatrust.org/).

**Editor’s note:** _the video previously embedded here (https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=yYSVPQ\_yiyc) is no longer available._

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Rose was inspired to create The Just 1 Project by the film ‘Pay It Forward’ starring
Kevin Spacey and Jon Bon Jovi.

Rose said:

> “I wanted to realise the same ambition, and wondered if we could garner the strength
> of social media to raise big funds for charity. If half the people I am connected
> to, donate and share, and then they donate and share, we should reach our GBP500,000
> in five months.”

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