# Meta announces withdrawal of fundraising products in EEA

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/04/26/meta-announces-withdrawal-of-fundraising-products-in-eea/
- Published: 2024-04-26T08:55:00+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Charities across many European countries will lose access to Meta’s fundraising
products this summer, with it announcing that from 1 July this year it will no longer
provide its fundraising products in the European Economic Area (EEA).**

This does not affect the UK, which left the EEA when it left the EU, but it does
include Ireland.

[In a post on its site](https://www.facebook.com/government-nonprofits/blog/2024-eea-updates),
Meta says that from this date, charities in the EEA will need to direct users to
their respective websites for fundraising purposes instead of using fundraising 
products on Facebook and Instagram platforms.

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Fundraisers and Donate buttons on posts and pages will no longer be supported in
the region, with all active fundraisers ending automatically and donate buttons 
being disabled. The Fundraiser API, and Facebook Donate Ads will also no longer 
be supported, and charities will no longer have access to Charity Manager, or past
data from the features it provides.

 **SEE ALSO: [Facebook fundraising tops $1.6 billion worldwide](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/09/19/facebook-fundraising-tops-1-6bn-worldwide/)(
19 September 2019)**

The last day a donor will be able to make a donation on Facebook or Instagram to
benefit a charity in the European Economic Area will be 30 June.

For charities enrolled to receive donations from PayPal Giving Fund Ireland, PayPal
Giving Fund (PPGF) Ireland will distribute any donations made on or before 30 June
2024 according to its payout timelines. For enrolled charities, this means within
15-45 days. For unenrolled charities, PPGF Ireland will distribute funds with a 
cheque within 90 days.

More information on the changes is available [on the Meta site](https://www.facebook.com/help/379707491649234).

In the post announcing the change, Meta said that it _“remains committed to supporting
nonprofits by connecting people to the causes they care about”_, and that this year,
it is “_evolving our approach to help more nonprofits reach more donors”_.

It also says that Meta’s Social Impact team is currently exploring new approaches
to drive more donations to more charities _“via their fundraising platform of choice”._
One option being testing is for charities to use the Page Donate Button to link 
users to their website so users can donate directly. It is also exploring ways to
make links to charity fundraisers more compelling to help charities engage more 
users.

 * **[Over 7 million in the UK have donated to a Facebook fundraiser](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/03/23/over-7m-uk-donated-facebook-fundraiser/)(
   23 March 2021)**
 * **[RNLI’s Storm Ciara Facebook post raises over £26,000](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/02/19/rnli-storm-ciara-facebook-post-raises-over-26000/)(
   19 February 2020)**
 * **[Givepanel launches to help charities build relationships with Facebook fundraisers](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/02/20/givepanel-launches-to-help-charities-build-relationships-with-facebook-fundraisers/)(
   20 February 2019)**