2025 is right here, and this previous 12 months, the JustGiving neighborhood hit huge milestones, made unbelievable recollections, and reached new heights. All whereas elevating tons of of hundreds of 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 can we even begin?
Fortunately, we took notes (and footage – heaps and many footage)!
As a result of folks didn’t solely elevate 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 wonderful folks, tales, and highlights of 2024.
£584m raised for UK charities in 2024
Let’s kick this off with one of the wonderful achievements of all…
JustGiving fundraisers helped charities elevate 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 embody…
£44 million raised in London Marathon 2024
Hundreds of wonderful 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 impression much more!
Have a tissue useful? As a result of right here’s the emotional video of once we known as the winner to allow them to know they’ve received certainly one of these huge donations.
19,000 JustGiving marketing campaign pages created by charities
Charities used Marketing campaign Pages for every little thing from annual appeals, fundraising occasions, and particular tasks.
400+ world file makes an attempt
The JustGiving neighborhood isn’t like every other – they go the space for his or her causes! Over 400 awe-inspiring fundraisers aimed for brand spanking new world data, 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 huge occasions like Nice North Run and London Landmarks Half Marathon, and in addition those that did their very own exercise in their very own time.
Not solely that – fundraisers used JustGiving to lift £155 million from working alone…an 11% enhance from 2023!
After shedding each grandparents to dementia, brothers Joe and Ben ran 10k each single day in January to help Dementia UK:
Probably the most inspiring evening of the 12 months
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 youngsters…
To 12-year-old Maya Tohid, who raised +£10,000 on JustGiving for Younger Lives Vs. Most cancers by finishing a 100km private working problem throughout 24 periods of radiotherapy remedy.
To the “human disco ball” Freya Morgan, whose put her authorized expertise to work to lift £21,000 to help migrants…
These fundraisers are among the most unbelievable we’ve ever heard of. Meet the 2024 winners, finalists, celeb judges, and extra!
Zoe’s Place saved!
What occurs when folks commit to creating a distinction collectively? They permit life-saving causes to proceed doing their wonderful work.
That’s precisely what occurred when tons of of fundraisers and tens of hundreds of supporters raised £6.5 million on JustGiving to save lots of Zoe’s Place Child Hospice, which may now proceed to assist infants with life-threatening circumstances.
New options for charities
At JustGiving, we’re all the time working to make fundraising simpler, sooner, 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 utilizing over 60 cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, powered by our partnership with The Giving Block.
Let’s Do This
We unlocked the flexibility for charities to attain hundreds of recent supporters and lift more cash with Let’s Do This, the UK’s largest endurance occasion market, immediately by JustGiving.
Refreshed Marketing campaign Web page design
Marketing campaign Pages (and your supporters’ Fundraising Pages) bought a brand new coat of paint, with higher personalisation options and readability enhancements.
Three new fundraising technique guides
Whether or not you’re making ready for London Marathon 2025, planning one other fundraising occasion, or want the step-by-step to a good winter fundraising marketing 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 listing of moments, milestones, and recollections.
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