11 August 14
Can you keep a secret? A couple of weeks ago we turned on our new regular giving feature on give.net! This new tool allows supporters to create a monthly Direct Debit donation in support of their favourite cause, in just a few clicks. We’ve rebuilt this new tool from the ground up, to ensure that…
20 June 14
HMRC Charities has recently set up a new dedicated Outreach Team to offer help and support to charities to enable them to get things right first time. The new team, located in Bootle, is comprised of 15 members. The team’s objective is to help charities understand, benefit and claim reliefs through Gift Aid, the Gift…
18 March 14
Give.net – the online giving platform from Stewardship – makes it super easy to give without your name attached in a few simple steps: 1. Search for your chosen charity/cause here. 2. Select the correct donation page (you can also give anonymously to fundraising pages!), and enter the amount you’d like to give. You can also choose whether to…
16 October 13
By now we’re sure a lot of you will have heard of ‘Movember’. A chance for men everywhere to show support for for prostate and testicular cancer and mental health by sprouting facial hair galore! Movember’s vision is to have an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health. So beards, long side-burns, moustaches (however…
10 October 13
Meet Jemma, running enthusiast and supporter of charity: water. We caught up with her recently to find out more about why she’s decided to ‘run all year’ in support of a cause she loves. Read on to find out more… What made you decide to do a fundraiser run for charity: water? Last year I raised…
19 March 13
A brand new initiative for 2013, sponsored by Stewardship’s give.net and backed by the NHS, asks a vital question: what if the UK church saw blood and organ donation as part of its giving? A new survey, suggests that while individual church members may have a significant interest in donating blood and organs, the bigger…
30 January 13
When we launched give.net, our goal was to make it easy for givers and recipients to connect and share their stories. On Monday 28 January we received the following appeal message from give.net fundraiser, Simon Guillebaud: “Today, 27th January, as the whole central market of Bujumbura has gone up in smoke, it is a national…
02 August 12
A few Sundays ago I sat in the third row from the front of my church, playing on my iPhone and waiting for the service to start. My empire was just about to be crushed by the mighty French armies and all the cavalry in the world couldn’t have prevented it (I was playing Civilization Revolution)….
02 March 12
Ready for the science bit? Traditionally, fundraising page websites have been built using an agency relationship between the website and the charity being supported. Complicated? Not really. Behind the scenes each of these providers have asked their registered charities to sign an agreement, allowing them to handle donations and reclaim Gift Aid on their behalf….