# GoFundMe expands to UK and Europe

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/01/06/gofundme-expands-uk-europe/
- Published: 2017-01-06T11:19:24+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Crowdfunding site GoFundMe has appointed John Coventry to leads its communications
activities in the UK as it expands from the US to the UK and Europe.**

Coventry, who joins from campaign platform Change.org, is the social fundraising
platform’s first appointment outside the US. At Change.org he helped launched the
UK operation before leading the European and global communications teams.

He will report to GoFundMe VP of Policy and Communications, Dan Pfeiffer, former
Senior Advisor to President Obama. At the beginning Coventry will be joined in the
UK by GoFundMe Media Director Kelsea Little.

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[GoFundMe](http://www.gofundme.com) suggested that other appointments were likely
this year in Europe.

![John Coventry](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2017/01/john-coventry.jpg)

_John Coventry has previously grown Change.org’s UK and European operations._

GoFundMe was launched on 10 May 2010 and has enabled people to raise £2.5 billion
using it. People typically use it to raise money for themselves, a friend or loved
one “during life’s important moments”. In particular it is used to raise funds for
medical expenses, education costs, volunteer programmes, youth sports, funerals 
and memorials, and the latter includes for animals and pets.

## GoFundMe in the UK so far

In the UK over 75,000 individuals have used GoFundMe to raise **over £57m**.

Successful UK campaigns on the platform include those for:

 * [Jo Cox MP](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/19/jo-cox-mp-appeal-largest-fastest-growing-uk-campaign-gofundme/)
 * [Alan Barnes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/02/02/crowdfunding-campaign-alan-barnes-tops-300k-four-days/)
 * [#Donate4Mike](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/08/12/meet-gofundme-campaign-organisers-made-difference/)

Coventry said:

> “The power of the internet to give everyone the tools to stand up for the issues
> they care about is one of the defining stories of our times. GoFundMe is changing
> the way people raise and give money, and the team and product are incredibly impressive.”

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