We often say the best recommendations are word of mouth, and we couldn’t recommend funding website easyfundraising enough for organisations in our region.
Offering an easy, continuous, and accessible fundraising option, easyfundraising gives organisations the chance to raise money to support themselves and the wider community through online shopping.
How it works
Big brands like Amazon, eBay, John Lewis, Etsy, M&S, Screwfix, Waitrose, Argos, Moonpig, Boots, trainline and 7,000 others want to give back to communities. That’s why they have partnered with easyfundraising, so when someone shops online with them, the brand gives back a percentage of what an online shopper spends to your organisation; for free. It’s like using a cashback site, but instead of one individual benefiting, volunteers and the local community can pull together and raise for your organisation.
It’s a bit like using a cashback site, but instead of one individual benefiting, your community can pull together and raise for your organisation. Anything from a weekly grocery shop to a family holiday can generate a free donation.
The great thing about easyfundraising is that it enables people to give to your organisation without it coming directly out of their pockets, which is a very good thing during the cost of living crisis. And with lot more of us planning to do our Christmas shopping online this year, it’s a really good time to give it a try.
It’s completely free to register and use and is open to voluntary organisations of all shape and size – you don’t need to be a charity. What’s more, the funds you raise this way class as unrestricted funds so you can use your donations as you wish.
Here’s an example:
Volunteer Chris is taking his family to visit his parents by train. Instead of visiting the Trainline website, Chris heads to easyfundraising’s website first and then clicks on the Trainline link.
easyfundraising directs Chris to Trainline, where he books his tickets. Because Chris started at easyfundraising first, the homeless shelter he volunteers at will receive a free donation directly from Trainline. So, Chris is happy he’s booked his train tickets, and the homeless shelter is delighted they have benefited from Chris’ smart shopping.
What do other good causes think?
“easyfundraising enables groups and organisations to quickly and efficiently raise funds. Quite often community projects have limited time and resources to gather funding and create fundraising opportunities. This is a great way of doing it with little fuss!” Kinlochleven Community Trust
“I certainly recommend easyfundraising to other groups. It’s a very easy way of raising funds for our work. There are many well-known shops in the scheme, and it doesn’t cost our members any extra to shop online in this way.” RSPB Aberdeen
“easyfundraising is a great way for small organisation like ours to raise some extra money.”Home-Start Renfrewshire
Not only does easyfundraising allow your organisation to create a continual income stream that fundraisers and raffles are unable to offer, especially in the current climate, it also enables people to give without it coming directly out of their pockets.
How to get started
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Create your organisation’s profile on the easyfundraising site – it’s free and only takes a few minutes
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Get familiar with easyfundraising – book a call with one of the team, who will show you around, so you are up to speed on how the site works.
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Share the good news – use the pre-built social media copy, images, posters, and flyers in your easyfundraising account to tell your community how easy it is for them to support you when they shop online.
How easyfundraising slots into everyday life
Because we lead busy lives, easyfundraising has built several tools to make it easy for anyone to support your organisation. For online shoppers who shop on laptops and computers, there is a handy reminder that when downloaded, pops up, so they can collect free funding in just one click. Or, for the shopper who shops via their mobile, the easyfundraising app keeps things really simple.
Give it a try
Word of mouth is the most trustworthy and authentic recommendation, so when over 170,000 good causes and voluntary organisations use easyfundraising to support their fundraising, they can’t be http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/east-lothian
