South Wales Animal Rescue

South Wales Animal Rescue is a small non-profit animal rescue run entirely by volunteers. They rescue all animals,  from hamsters to horses, and place them with safe, reliable homes. Sadly, although they would like to be take in every animal, due to rising costs they now have a maximum number on the amount of animals they can take in and care for. Unfortunately Read More …

Help Lewis Walk

Lewis Brierley is an 11-year old son from Manchester. He was diagnosed at a very young age with Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy. Lewis is a happy little boy who would love to live a normal life and do things like playing football with his friends. However, he has to rely on a wheelchair to get around Read More …

Our amazing causes – nominations for cause of the month

When we asked easyfundraisers to nominate their cause as our cause of the month for October, we were absolutely inundated with responses. It was so hard to pick a winner as every cause we read about seemed to be so deserving of the £150 prize. We chose STEPS as the overall winner because of the Read More …

Why it’s so hard to choose the cause of the month…..

When we asked easyfundraisers to nominate their cause as our cause of the month for October, we were absolutely inundated with responses. It was so hard to pick a winner as every cause we read about seemed to be so deserving of the £150 prize.

World Animal Day – a day in the life of one animal charity

Today is World Animal Day and our guest blog comes from one of the many animal welfare causes that fundraise with easyfundraising. Equine Market Watch is dedicated to improving the welfare of horses and ponies in markets and auctions.  The charity is run entirely by unwaged volunteers and offers an equine sanctuary base in Herefordshire as well as foster homes.  Read More …

A Habitat spending spree? Yes please!

  Each month, one of our retailers is kind enough to offer a fabulous competition prize to our members. This month, style icon Habitat have donated a £250 giftcard as a prize – that’s a rather amazing £250 to spend on whatever you fancy from Habitat’s gorgeous range of furniture, interiors, accessories and gifts.

Reviving your online community

We’re pleased to have a guest post by John Haydon from Inbound Zombie,  a social media strategy firm helping non-profits build communities and increase awareness online. Read more from John at http://www.johnhaydon.com/   If your organisation has an online community, you probably spent hundreds of hours planning it and thousands of pounds building it. And before that, you had countless Read More …

Social Media: A key factor in record-breaking Fundraising Appeal

This is a guest article from Graham Richards, a freelance legacy fundraiser and social media champion for charities & businesses. Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), the coalition of several key aid charities, received a record-breaking £70m+ in donations for its Haiti Appeal. A staggering 48% of the UK population Read More …

How easyfundraising cheques are making a difference

A couple of weeks ago we sent our causes cheques for the funds they raised in the second quarter of this year. The total amount sent out came to just shy of £200,000 – not at all bad for just three months of shopping and searching. We asked our causes on Facebook what they plan to use the money for, Read More …