# Over £70 million raised through CAF Donate - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/14/70m-raised-caf-donate/ - Published: 2017-02-14T10:24:00+00:00 - Author: Melanie May **More than 2,800 charities are now using online fundraising platform CAF Donate, with £71.8m raised through it since its 2014 launch.** [CAF Donate](https://www.cafonline.org/charity-finance--fundraising/caf-donate) enables charities to set up online fundraising pages and process telephone and postal payments as well as their online donations through Direct Debit, credit card, PayPal or a CAF Charity Account without having to pay a fixed cost. According to the [Charities Aid Foundation](https://www.cafonline.org/), prior to the launch of CAF Donate, research by the British Payments Council found that 9 in 10 charities were unable to accept direct debits despite this being one of the most popular ways for people to donate. CAF’s [UK Giving Report](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/05/24/uk-giving-report-reveals-men-young-adults-least-involved-charitable-giving/) shows that one in three people give to charity by direct debit each year, and that the percentage of people in the UK donating to charity online has increased from 4% to 16% in the past six years. Separate CAF research showed that 23% of people in the UK had recently donated through a charity’s website and that 26% planned to do so in the next year. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) Julie Simpson, product manager for charities at CAF, said: > “It is important that charities aren’t left behind and are able to keep up with > the changing ways in which people want to give. CAF Donate was set up to ensure > charities would be able to accept donations in one place without having to pay > a fixed monthly charge or create their own donation platform from scratch. > “It is fantastic to see how much CAF Donate has been able to help charities secure > vital funds on which they may otherwise have missed out.” * **[New online toolkit launches to help charities with digital](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/10/new-online-toolkit-launches-help-charities-digital/)**( 10 April 2017) * **[New goDonate platform helps smaller charities increase online donations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/04/19/new-godonate-platform-helps-smaller-charities-increase-online-donations/)**( 19 April 2018) * **[Facebook launches new Facebook Fundraisers features](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/06/07/facebook-launches-new-facebook-fundraisers-features/)**( 7 June 2018) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)