A dedicated online platform designed to support fundraising and crowdfunding in the island has been hailed as an “important digital step” for Jersey’s charity sector.
Promoted as “the future of fundraising in Jersey”, the new JerseyGiving platform will be officially launched on 23 September.
Built in collaboration with local charities, the site has been designed by RaceNation and SportsGiving – which have served as a unified platform to automate event registration and fundraising for a number of years – with a focus on local giving and donor engagement.
RaceNation CEO Will Golder said that JerseyGiving was created to “power all of the island’s fundraising and crowdfunding” and enable charities and good causes to “raise more money, more easily”.
He continued: “As a technology company founded in Jersey, nothing makes us prouder than launching a product that is dedicated to the island.
“Having already enabled charities to automatically raise 25% more on eligible donations through our Jersey Gift Support digital declaration, JerseyGiving takes our longstanding commitment to the island one step further.”
Mr Golder added: “Now, Jersey has its own dedicated platform to power all of the island’s fundraising and crowdfunding; empowering charities and good causes to raise more money, more easily.”
Cheri Strudwick, Director of Income Generation for Jersey Hospice Care, said the charity was “delighted” to have been working alongside RaceNation on the island’s “first dedicated fundraising platform”.
She continued: “The focus of this project has been to ensure that the platform works easily and seamlessly for the supporter, and at the same time enables the charity to improve its efficiencies from an administration perspective, and importantly to utilise the Jersey Gift Support scheme into the giving process.”
As a technology company founded in Jersey, nothing makes us prouder than launching a product that is dedicated to the island
Will Golder, ceo of racenation
Ms Strudwick revealed that, for the past six weeks, all donations made on the Hospice website have been via the JerseyGiving platform.
“This new platform is an important digital step for our island’s charity sector, and I look forward to speaking to other charities about it in more detail,” she added.