# Facebook fundraising tops £1.6 billion worldwide

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/09/19/facebook-fundraising-tops-1-6bn-worldwide/
- Published: 2019-09-19T08:02:27+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Fundraising on Facebook has now raised over £1.6 billion for good causes worldwide,
with half of that (£803 million) achieved through birthday fundraisers.**

More than 45 million people worldwide have now donated to or created a fundraiser
on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com) since the launch of its fundraising tools
in 2015 – double the amount reported in November last year.

Celebrities raising big sums include chef Gordon Ramsey, who raised £26,000 for 
Great Ormond Street Hospital for his birthday last year, and Manchester United star
Paul Pogba, who kicked off a clean water fundraising drive with [Charity: Water](https://www.charitywater.org)
raising £7,360 to mark his 26^(th) birthday in March.

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UK charities that have benefitted from birthday fundraisers and donations on Facebook
include **Breast Cancer Care**, which has raised over £1.8 million since launching
on birthdays, and **Alzheimer’s Society**, which has raised over £1.2 million since
launching on the platform.

People can also create their own fundraisers for non-profits or personal causes 
or use the donate button to pledge their support, and big totals raised in this 
way include almost £6m for **Cancer Research UK** through Facebook’s fundraising
tools in the past year alone, £2.7m for **Help Refugees**, and £2.5m for **Movember**.

[Please Take Me There](https://www.pleasetakemethere.org) has used £11,247 donated
through Facebook to transport 681 children with cancer and living in extreme poverty
to get the healthcare they needed. The funds paid for more than 1,700 journeys to
and from hospital allowing children to be diagnosed and treated.

 

![Sheryl Sandberg with top fundraisers from around the globe including Fernando 
Pinho from UK based charity Take Me There](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/
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_Sheryl Sandberg with top fundraisers from around the globe including Fernando Pinho
from UK based charity Take Me There._

 

Speaking at a global roundtable of Facebook fundraiser creators in San Francisco,
Fernando Pinho, its Founder, said:

> “We were one of the first charities to have access to Facebook Fundraising in 
> Europe. It allows us to share the stories of the children we support with our 
> community, and immediately empower each supporter to become part of our fundraising
> team, to donate and help to change a child’s life. The seed funding we needed,
> a community of passionate and active supporters, 25 thousand members strong, were
> all possible because of Facebook.”

Anita Yuen, Head of Social Impact Partnerships Facebook, said:

> “It’s incredible to see our community mobilise around the causes they care about
> and raise billions for important projects worldwide. Birthday donations now sit
> at the very heart of that activity and it’s heartening to see a growing trend 
> for celebrating in a more meaningful way. Over the past few years, Facebook has
> become a really powerful tool for fundraising, helping charities cross borders
> and reach supporters no matter where they are in the world.”

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