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Justgiving reaches one million online donors mark
Howard Lake | 11 September 2005 | News
One million people have made an online donation through Justgiving since the website went live in 2001.
Almost £40 million has been raised online for 1,200 charities by one million donors making a donation or sponsoring a friend at Justgiving. Almost £25 million of that total has been donated in 2005 alone.
More than 100,000 people have used the site to build a personal fundraising page to collect donations for a sponsored event or personal appeal.
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Justgiving was launched in 2001 by its CEO, former City lawyer Zarine Kharas, and Managing Director Anne-Marie Huby, who was previously executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières UK.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.