The Charity Service has announced it is to launch My Gift, the first not-for-profit online fundraising and donation service which will offer a fundraising platform free of charge to UK registered charities.

Unlike other, online fundraising and donation services with commercial interests or links, such as Just Giving, Be My Charity and Virgin Money Giving, www.mygift.org.uk will offer free onsite advertising* to charities and there will be no set up or admin charges; meaning £’millions worth of charges to charities could be avoided.
Here are the facts:

1The Charity Service is a registered charity. All My Gift transactions are regulated by Charity regulations. UK law forbids distributions anyone except bona fide charities; thus all funds raised are to be retained in the charity sector

2 We are a true not-for-profit charitable operation, as such our policy states that we shall not use charities to promote a commercial brand or business

3Our management and control are completely within the UK

4We reclaim tax in the same way as others and pass it on to our beneficiary charities within the first 10 working days of every month

5We provide the beneficiary charities with a report of donors except where anonymity is requested

6Remittances advices to charities are free and sent electronically, before the time of remittance

7We offer free site advertising to all UK registered charities

8We are transparent - our only charge is 5% to donors to cover running costs - no charges are made to charities

9We are not new to charitable distribution; we have been distributing funds to charities for nearly 43 years in this and our previous existence and for more than a decade, those distributions have exceeded £1m per year

Michael Colin, Chief Executive of The Charity Service, said it’s big news, not just for the larger charities:

“The Charity Service”**has been working tirelessly on behalf of UK charities for the last 43 years. We’re delighted to announce the launch of www.mygift.org.uk, the next generation of online fundraising platforms which will see every penny possible returned to where it belongs, the charities.”

He added: “It’s great news for charities large or small and means many smaller charities will, at last, be able to benefit via online fundraising, where previously it might cost them more in admin charges or registration fees than was being raised.”

*The advertising refers to the free uploading of charities’ own material to the site, into the banner area where the charity may display its own messages and place URL links to its own site
**Refers to The Charity Service and any other names by which it has previously been known

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