Moving to a new fundraising platform does not need to be complicated.
With People's Fundraising, you can choose the way that best suits your organisation. Start fundraising on our standard platform in just a few minutes, or work with us to create a fully branded fundraising platform built around your organisation.
Whichever route you choose, we are here to help you get started, understand the platform and make the most of the fundraising opportunities available to you.
- Choose how you want to get started
- Start fundraising in minutes
- Create your own branded fundraising platform
- Choose the right fundraising experience
- Turn supporter conversations into fundraising opportunities
- Support whenever you need it
- The Fundraising Accelerator
- Start with the tools you need
- Ready to explore switching?
Choose how you want to get started
There are two straightforward ways to join People's Fundraising.
You can register directly on the standard People's Fundraising platform and start setting up fundraising within minutes, or choose a fully branded platform where we work with you to create a fundraising experience built around your organisation's own identity.
Both options give you access to the fundraising technology, guidance and support available through People's Fundraising.
Start fundraising in minutes
For many charities, community organisations, schools, PTAs, sports clubs and other good causes, the quickest way to get started is through the standard People's Fundraising platform.
Registration only takes a few minutes. Once your organisation is set up, you can begin creating fundraising activities and directing supporters to your new fundraising pages.
There is no lengthy implementation project. You can start with the fundraising activity you need today and introduce additional tools as your fundraising develops.
Register with People's Fundraising
Create your own branded fundraising platform
For organisations that want fundraising to sit seamlessly within their own brand, People's Fundraising can provide a fully branded fundraising platform.
Your platform can use your organisation's own branding, imagery, colours and fundraising subdomain, such as fundraising.charity.org.
The People's Fundraising branding is removed so that supporters experience fundraising as a natural extension of your organisation's existing website and digital presence.
We work with you to set it up for free
There is no charge for our time in helping you set up your fully branded fundraising platform.
We work directly with your organisation to configure the platform, apply your branding, establish the look and feel and help get everything ready for launch.
This means you do not need to appoint an external agency or manage a complex implementation project simply to get your branded fundraising platform live.
We guide you through the process, explain what we need from you and work with your team to get the platform ready as quickly as your own resources and approval processes allow.
There are a few more setup steps than joining the standard platform, but the process is designed to be straightforward.
Where everything is available and decisions can be made quickly, we can prepare a fully branded platform within a couple of days. Our record is a same-day implementation.
In practice, we normally recommend allowing around one week. The actual timescale is often determined by how quickly your organisation can review and approve items such as branding, imagery, wording and the overall look and feel.
Our setup and implementation support is provided free of charge. Normal platform, hosting and payment-processing charges are separate and are explained on our Pricing page.
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Choose the right fundraising experience
People's Fundraising gives organisations flexibility over how fundraising pages are presented to supporters.
Depending on the platform and fundraising activity, supporters can be directed to:
- a fully charity-branded experience, using your own branding and fundraising subdomain, such as
fundraising.charity.org; - a People's Fundraising-branded page on the standard platform; or
- a themed fundraising page, where the standard People's Fundraising look and feel is removed in favour of a more neutral or contextual presentation.
This allows you to choose the experience that best fits your organisation, your audience and the particular fundraising activity.
Turn supporter conversations into fundraising opportunities
Moving fundraising to People's Fundraising can be as simple as replacing existing donation or fundraising links with links to your new pages.
But the opportunity goes much further than replacing an existing Donate button.
People's Fundraising gives organisations many different ways to engage supporters. As you introduce more fundraising activities, you may choose to surface those opportunities more widely across your own website.
Your website may therefore evolve as you begin to make more fundraising opportunities available to supporters.
The most important connection, however, is often between the conversation with the supporter and the fundraising opportunity itself.
Many fundraising conversations happen away from a charity website. They take place through social media, email, community activity, company relationships, corporate partnerships, events or simply through face-to-face conversations.
People's Fundraising enables your organisation to turn those conversations into relevant and actionable fundraising asks.
Instead of directing every supporter to the same general donation page, you can send someone directly to the opportunity that is relevant to the conversation you are having with them.
That might be a donation, fundraising page, event, raffle, tombola, auction, membership, lottery, shop or another way for that supporter to engage with and support your organisation.
Each conversation can therefore lead directly to an interesting and relevant fundraising opportunity enabled by the platform.
Keep your organisation at the centre of the experience
For organisations using a fully branded platform, the supporter can move directly from a conversation with your charity to a fundraising page carrying your organisation's branding and your own web address.
This continuity reinforces brand recognition and trust at the moment the supporter is being asked to take action.
For example, a conversation on social media about an upcoming event can link directly to a branded event page. A community conversation can link to a relevant raffle or fundraising campaign. A corporate conversation can direct supporters towards the specific fundraising opportunity being discussed.
The fundraising platform therefore becomes more than somewhere to send people who click a Donate button. It gives your organisation a growing collection of relevant fundraising destinations that can be used whenever and wherever conversations with supporters take place.
Support whenever you need it
Getting your fundraising technology live is only the beginning.
We want organisations using People's Fundraising to understand what the platform can do and how its different tools can support their fundraising strategy.
Step-by-step video tutorials
Our YouTube channel contains tutorials covering every fundraising tool and feature within People's Fundraising.
You can work through these at your own pace, return to them whenever you need a refresher and share them with colleagues, trustees or volunteers who are helping to manage your fundraising.
Free demos and tutorials
Sometimes it is easier simply to talk to someone.
You can book a free demonstration or tutorial with the People's Fundraising team at a time convenient for your organisation.
This can be a general introduction to People's Fundraising or a focused session covering any particular tool or feature of the platform.
Whether you want to understand donations, fundraising pages, events, raffles, tombolas, auctions, memberships, lotteries, shops or another part of the platform, we are happy to show you how it works and answer your questions.
More than a platform: the Fundraising Accelerator
Every organisation choosing a branded People's Fundraising platform also receives a full Fundraising Accelerator day at no additional cost.
The Fundraising Accelerator is not simply a software-training session.
We spend the day understanding your organisation, your fundraising objectives and the networks of people and organisations around you that could help generate additional income.
We look at four important supporter networks:
- Individual supporters;
- Community supporters and organisations;
- Company relationships; and
- Corporate partners.
We then work through the tools and opportunities available within People's Fundraising and explore how they can be combined with those networks to create practical fundraising opportunities.
The objective is not simply for your team to understand how the technology works.
By the end of the Fundraising Accelerator, your organisation leaves with an executable fundraising plan showing how your supporter networks and the People's Fundraising platform can work together to generate more fundraising income.
Start with the tools you need
You do not need to introduce every fundraising opportunity at once.
People's Fundraising gives your organisation a wide range of ways to raise funds, allowing you to start with the activities that make the most sense today and introduce additional fundraising opportunities as your strategy develops.
You might begin with donations and fundraising pages and later add events, raffles, tombolas, auctions, memberships, lotteries, shops or other forms of fundraising.
Equally, a particular conversation with a supporter or supporter network may identify an opportunity you have never previously been able to offer.
The platform is there to help your fundraising grow with your organisation, your ideas and the relationships around you.
Ready to explore switching?
Whether you want to start fundraising immediately, explore a fully branded platform or simply see People's Fundraising in action, we can help you take the next step.
Start on People's Fundraising
Register online and you can begin setting up your fundraising in just a few minutes.
Create your own branded fundraising platform
Talk to us about creating a fully branded People's Fundraising platform for your organisation. We will work with you free of charge to set up and configure the platform and help you get ready for launch.
Talk to us about a branded platform
See the platform first
Book a free demonstration and we can show you the platform, answer your questions and explore which fundraising opportunities could work for your organisation.