2025 is right here, and this previous yr, the JustGiving neighborhood hit huge milestones, made unimaginable recollections, and reached new heights. All whereas elevating a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of kilos and making a actual distinction for charities like yours.
It’s time to share 2024’s greatest, greatest, and most lovely Moments That Mattered. However with so many, the place will we even begin?
Fortunately, we took notes (and footage – tons and plenty of footage)!
As a result of folks didn’t solely increase cash. They devoted their time, power, ardour, love, coronary heart, and soul to lift over £584 million (!) for what issues.
Prepared for Moments That Mattered? Let’s take a look at the superb folks, tales, and highlights of 2024.
£584m raised for UK charities in 2024
Let’s kick this off with one of the crucial superb achievements of all…
JustGiving fundraisers helped charities increase greater than half a billion kilos in 2024!
Devoted fundraisers created over 1,000,000 JustGiving Fundraising Pages to assist good causes get that a lot nearer to reaching their mission.
Just a few highlights from 2024 embrace…
£44 million raised in London Marathon 2024
1000’s of fantastic fundraisers raised as a part of their participation in London Marathon 2024.
Plus, we gave three fortunate fundraisers £2,000 bonus donations to spice up their affect much more!
Have a tissue helpful? As a result of here’s the emotional video of after we referred to as the winner to allow them to know they’ve gained one in every of these huge donations.
19,000 JustGiving marketing campaign pages created by charities
Charities used Campaign Pages for every part from annual appeals, fundraising occasions, and particular tasks.
400+ world document makes an attempt
The JustGiving neighborhood isn’t like some other – they go the gap for his or her causes! Over 400 awe-inspiring fundraisers aimed for brand spanking new world information, like when the epic Lloyd Martin raised £18,000 and made historical past because the youngest individual with Down Syndrome to finish a marathon.
£200 million raised in health occasions
All in all, fundraisers ran, stroll, cycled, swam, rolled, skipped, and danced a mind-bending 79 million miles in 2024.
That included each passionate fundraisers who joined massive occasions like Nice North Run and London Landmarks Half Marathon, and likewise those that did their very own exercise in their very own time.
Not solely that – fundraisers used JustGiving to lift £155 million from operating alone…an 11% enhance from 2023!
After dropping each grandparents to dementia, brothers Joe and Ben ran 10k every single day in January to assist Dementia UK:
Essentially the most inspiring evening of the yr
On the 2024 GoCardless JustGiving Awards, we gave glowing trophies to eight life-changing fundraisers, who raised £16 million mixed.
From the eight Angel Mums who took on a skydive and raised £77,000 in reminiscence of their kids…
To 12-year-old Maya Tohid, who raised +£10,000 on JustGiving for Younger Lives Vs. Most cancers by finishing a 100km private operating problem throughout 24 classes of radiotherapy remedy.
To the “human disco ball” Freya Morgan, whose put her authorized abilities to work to lift £21,000 to assist migrants…
These fundraisers are a few of the most unbelievable we’ve ever heard of. Meet the 2024 winners, finalists, celebrity judges, and more!
Zoe’s Place saved!
What occurs when folks commit to creating a distinction collectively? They permit life-saving causes to proceed doing their superb work.
That’s precisely what occurred when a whole bunch of fundraisers and tens of hundreds of supporters raised £6.5 million on JustGiving to save lots of Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice, which may now proceed to assist infants with life-threatening situations.
New options for charities
At JustGiving, we’re all the time working to make fundraising simpler, quicker, and extra accessible for charities, fundraisers, donors, and supporters alike.
In 2024, we launched a bunch of shiny new options, updates, and adjustments to make your JustGiving expertise even higher!
Cryptocurrency donations
JustGiving fundraisers can now make donations to charities using over 60 cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, powered by our partnership with The Giving Block.
Let’s Do This
We unlocked the power for charities to reach thousands of new supporters and lift more cash with Let’s Do This, the UK’s largest endurance occasion market, immediately by way of JustGiving.
Refreshed Marketing campaign Web page design
Marketing campaign Pages (and your supporters’ Fundraising Pages) got a new coat of paint, with higher personalisation options and readability enhancements.
Three new fundraising technique guides
Whether or not you’re getting ready for London Marathon 2025, planning one other fundraising event, or want the step-by-step to a perfect winter fundraising campaign, we’ve bought a information for that!
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Much more Moments That Mattered!
The moments above are just a few of 2024’s greatest JustGiving moments. See the complete checklist of moments, milestones, and recollections.
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