6,377,066 people

have helped

raise £357,838,463

for

5,817 charities

using Justgiving

Justgiving lets people donate to charities online.
It’s easy, quick and tax-friendly.

Our goal is to help people raise as much as they can for charity by providing an excellent service to as many people as possible.

We have thousands of member charities although we’re not a charity ourselves. Our online fundraising pages make raising money and donating easy and they’ve helped transform the way people fundraise – the rest is down to the amazing and creative ways you use them.

What users say

open quote marksSo easy to use and has turned the nightmare of asking and then having to collect into an easy option. We have more than doubled the amount we raised last time.close quote marks

Jane Crosthwaite

We believe in giving all charities the same opportunity to raise huge amounts of money, including the smaller ones who can’t afford to spend lots of money on technology, freeing them up to concentrate on what’s important – whether it’s medical research or running the local playgroup.

It took us five years to break even, and our investors have yet to get a penny back – we’re very grateful to them for taking a pretty big risk and putting up with losses of £5 million to get us here.

What charities say

open quote marksI just want to add that I've called the Justgiving helpline twice this week and I'm really pleased with the prompt and excellent service you've provided.close quote marks

Nishani Karunaratne, SOS Children's Villages

You can ring us up at our office in central London (yes we’re really here, no annoying robots) or if you’re in the area you can pop in for a cup of tea and, if you’re lucky, a slice of cake.


Our history

  • 1999 Zarine bowling

    Zarine, our CEO, decides to leave her posh city job to work full-time on this new-fangled internet charity idea she’s had. Everyone is used to the sound of a dial-up modem.

  • 2000 Jase & Rich

    Anne−Marie is so impressed with the idea that she leaves her top job at Medecins Sans Frontières to launch Justgiving with Zarine and a few other webby types, from a tiny office in Soho.

  • 2001 Exhibition

    The taxman gives our Gift Aid reclaim systems the thumbs up and we are ready to go. We process our first ever donation and have a big party.

  • 2002 Firstgiving

    We make friends with the London Marathon folks and people start to take to the online sponsorship idea. We also win a NMA award for best use of the web. Yay!

  • 2003 Server

    We launch in the US, to see if we can grow the online fundraising idea there, and work hard to make an impact. We redesign the UK site so people can raise money for anything, not just events. We discover usability and our userbase doubles.

  • 2004 Fans

    After investing millions in our systems, we break even for the first time. Woohoo! Cancer Research UK tries Justgiving on a bunch of their Race for Life events. They like it. We grow so much we have to move to a bigger office in Old Street.

  • 2005 Justgiving site

    We break through the 1,000-charities mark, thanks to Justgivers and their friends wanting a wider choice of charities to support. We become the official online fundraising platform for Race for Life.

  • 2006 Matt

    We dabble with mobile phone donations for a bit. People don’t really want them so we undabble. Meanwhile the site gets bigger with lots of clever people using it for things like birthdays, weddings and parachute jumps. We get inspired.

  • 2007 Medal

    We get lots of new techies to start on the next generation of Justgiving and move office to St Cross Street. There is a great place down the road that does burritos. We launch a Facebook app and widget.

  • 2008 Molly, Jonno, Lee and Sophie

    We buy shiny new servers and start working in earnest on the next version of Justgiving. There are over 5,000 charities using our site and millions of people have helped raise more than 300 million! Amazing.