# The Good Exchange announces £8.5 million to charitable causes in first two years

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/09/20/good-exchange-announces-8-5m-good-causes-first-two-years/
- Published: 2018-09-20T08:50:09+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Good Exchange has now dispersed a total of £8.5 million to charitable causes,
it has announced on its second anniversary.**

 

The not-for-profit online matching platform has seen a 76% year-on-year growth in
grants and a 26% rise in donations made via its platform, with new applicants also
up by 75%.  Visitors to its site have also risen 76%.

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The Good Exchange platform went live on 1 September 2016 and matches charitable 
local projects with funding from grant makers, donors and fundraisers. It replaced
findmeagrant.org, which was Greenham Common Trust’s web platform, and is wholly 
owned by the Trust. It saw £4.7m distributed to good causes [in its first year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/05/good-exchange-sees-4-7m-distributed-charitable-causes-first-year/).

 

In the last 12 months, [The Good Exchange](https://thegoodexchange.com/) has also
been shortlisted for two awards: the most innovative cloud product or service in
the Computing Cloud Excellence Awards and The Newbury Weekly News Best in Business
Awards.

 

It has also launched a new website, helping to drive 76% growth in visitors to the
platform along with a new YouTube channel, which offers help on a range of subjects
from social media training to best practice case studies.

 

Ed Gairdner, COO of The Good Exchange, said:

 

> “We’ve been proud to support many varied and excellent fundraising projects and
> the growing number of grant givers who see the huge benefits of collaborative 
> funding on our platform this year, and are thrilled to report such significant
> rates of growth.
> “Our charity-owned status ensures that everything we do is always in the best 
> interests of the charitable sector and this is reflected in the feedback we’re
> receiving on our platform. It’s encouraging to hear how it’s making a real difference
> to charitable projects, helping to close the funding gap and boosting collaboration
> between funders and fundraisers.”

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