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Really good news today that JustGiving and Vodafone have extended their text donations facility to individuals who are raising funds for their chosen charities. This is a real leap forward, bringing text donating to people like you and me. The best thing of all is it’s a free service, so no longer does mobile phone company take a hefty cut of the donation.

To read a fuller report on this development, check out Third Sector magazine’s article: Third Sector

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“It’s not what you say, but the way that you say it, that’s what gets results!”

These were the words of a pop song that Bananarama had a hit with in the 80s. Yet, how true these words are.

You  can write the best English text, but still not say things in a way that will hit people’s hearts. It is a skill to be learnt, but once learnt, it will make such a difference. Fundraisers have a challenge to get people to give and, in so doing, make a difference.

The video below is a wonderful example of just how to achieve this, just by changing the words:

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Charity sector loses £400,000 from the scrapping of tax return tick-box

March 25, 2011

Just when you thought the Government was seeing the light and making generous gestures towards charities, through the relaxing of Gift Aid claims for small donations, You discover that they are, in fact, clawing some of it back via another route! The scrapping of the tick box for the Self Assessment Donate, the mechanism for [...]

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Coalition calls for Gift Aid reform

October 15, 2010

A coalition of fundraising and voluntary sector umbrella organisations is calling on the Treasury Minister to bring about reforms to the Gift Aid system, before the next Budget. Gone is the call to bring higher rate tax payers into Gift Aid (for the time being) and, instead, there are requests to make it simpler (for [...]

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