Free funding for your organisation
As part of our funding support, CVS Bedfordshire is working with funding website easyfundraising to help voluntary organisations, good causes and charities in in Bedfordshire and Luton to get additional income.
With easyfundraising, you, your staff, volunteers and supporters can all raise free donations for your organisation simply by shopping online with favourite retailers.
Through easyfundraising, over 7,000 online retailers including Amazon, eBay and M&S, Sainsbury’s, Booking.com, ASDA, Trainline, John Lewis and Argos will give your organisation free donations when your volunteers, staff and supporters shop with them. Anything from a weekly grocery shop to a family holiday can generate a free donation for your organisation.
When a shopper starts their shopping at the easyfundraising website or app, the retailer will send your organisation a donation based on how much the shopper spent. This will not cost anything extra as the retailer pays the donation, not the shopper.
Every 3 months you receive all the donations raised by shoppers supporting you, paid directly into your organisation’s bank account or by cheque, which you can put towards a particular project; or keep for a rainy day.
The benefits:
- Free to register and use
- Open to organisations of all shape and size – you don’t need to be a charity
- Easy to set up and requires minimal management
- Unrestricted funds so you can use your donations as you wish
What do other organisations think?
“Like many community organisations we are looking at a very difficult year financially. easyfundraising enables us to quickly and efficiently reach out to the public to support work and services. 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
With many more people shopping online these days, this is an easy way for your volunteers and supporters to raise money for your organisation safely from home through their normal online shopping.
Getting started
To get started, create an easyfundraising page for your organisation via here
Our partnership with easyfundraising enables us to benefit from a small commission when our groups sign up to easyfundraising so please use our link to register as this will mean that as well as you benefitting from additional funding, CVS Bedfordshire will also benefit, at no cost to you.
If you have questions and would like to speak to someone about easyfundraising, please contact becky@easyfundraising.org.uk who will be happy to help you.