# Donated fees from Covid testing marketplace see over £2 million go to UK charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/04/06/donated-fees-from-covid-testing-marketplace-see-over-2-million-go-to-uk-charities/
- Published: 2022-04-06T11:30:37+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Not-for-profit TestRAMP, which launched in 2020 as a marketplace for Covid-19 
PCR testing, has now donated over £2 million to good causes, and is also about to
launch a new service for genomic testing and profiling of other diseases.**

During the pandemic, [TestRAMP](http://www.testramp.org) operated as a not-for-profit
earning around £2.4 million in fees. Almost all of this, minus taxes and charges,
goes to good causes, with over £2 million donated so far to charities including 
Alzheimer’s Society, ZSL, and Pilgrim’s Hospices.

TestRAMP has also established TestAID, a charitable foundation that operates as 
a restricted fund and which it hopes will be able to collaborate with other donors
in the diagnostics sector in the future to support good causes in the life sciences.

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Mike Hudson, CEO, said:

> “We say that we are 100% commercial and 100% philanthropic. That means we charge
> clients fees, but we operate as a not-for-profit and donate most of our revenue
> to charity. Our raison d’etre is to make diagnostic testing work better and to
> support charities at the same time.
>  
> “We’re now creating a marketplace so that healthcare providers can see which labs
> offer particular genomic tests, how much they cost and how quickly they are deliverable.
> We’ll also be helping labs to co-operate with each other, including to manage 
> supply and demand.”