Type: Press Releases
The Good Exchange is supporting Oxford City Council’s Small Community Grants Programme 2018-2019. Oxford City Council provides £1.4m of grants every year to local charities and community groups. The grants are provided to organisations to help tackle inequality, deprivation and homelessness, and to promote arts and culture in the city. Oxford City Council has allocated £20,000 to the latest Small Grants Programme, following a successful pilot earlier this year, where the Council awarded grants of up to £1,000 available via The Good Exchange.
Type: News
Charity Digital News – The Good Exchange is the latest cloud fundraising platform to come forward to register with the Regulator before the end of August deadline. In June this year, the Regulator reviewed its Code of Practice, publishing new rules requiring online platforms such as the Good Exchange to be open and transparent with users, take reasonable steps to treat donors fairly, and ensure donors know their rights in the event of a problem.
Type: Press Releases
The Good Exchange has officially registered with the Fundraising Regulator. The Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice requires fundraising platforms to take all reasonable steps to enable donors to make informed donation decisions including providing clear, transparent & accessible information on their services, fees & charges to ensure members of the public know where their donation is going & what their rights are in the event of a problem.
Type: Press Releases
Oxford City Council has made a further £10,000 of small grants available for local charities and community groups through The Good Exchange. A total of £20,000 has now been made available in the current round of the City Council’s Small Grants Scheme 2018 for organisations based in Oxford that promote equality, community cohesion, healthy living, or work to tackle poverty and deprivation.
Type: Blog
This blog by social media expert Paul Wilson of PR Wilson Media covers the 3 Ms of your social media strategy. These 3 key elements are Market, Message and Media. 1. Market – Target audience Planning your social media strategy 2. Message -what matters to them and 3. Media – where do you find your supporters online and how do you manage your presence?
Type: Press Releases
London-based Voyage Youth has won a free fundraising project on The Good Exchange platform, following a prize draw at the NCVO Annual Conference in April 2018.
The organisation’s core mission is to reduce the inequalities and disparities faced by young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people in employment, education and community settings.
Voyage is using the fundraising project to raise £47,700 for its flagship Young Leaders for Safer Cities (YLFSC) BTEC accredited course in leadership.
Type: Success Stories, Videos
The Rosemary Appeal
The Rosemary Appeal has successfully reached its fundraising goal of £5.5m for the new Greenham Trust Wing for advanced cancer care and renal dialysis at the West Berkshire Community Hospital. The Appeal has received support from many local grant-giving organisations that collaborated to offer grants and match funding via The Good Exchange’s charitable giving platform to help this vital fundraising project reach its target.
“There are hundreds of thousands of charities in this country all in competition for money and as a relatively small charity, we didn’t have a hope of competing with the national charities,” said Robert Tayton, Secretary, Newbury & Thatcham Hospital Building Trust. “By using The Good Exchange, we have received £1.84m from 1,039 public donations through the platform which were matched by grant funders including Greenham Trust and The Peter Baker Foundation), doubling the amount raised”.
Whilst The Rosemary Appeal has now reached its target, there are many more charitable fundraising projects looking for your support. To donate to, or fundraise for similar fundraising appeals visit our ‘Fundraising Projects Page‘.
Type: Blog
At the Local Government Association’s (LGA) annual conference & exhibition, delegates heard how innovation & best practice can deliver the best local public services for our communities. In addition, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Local Government), Rishi Sunak MP, announced a new “Charity Digital Code of Practice”, backed by £7.5 million of government funding to help councils transform their online services.
Type: News
The Good Exchange has been shortlisted for the 2018 Best in Business ‘Social Media Award’ sponsored by Apple Print and Creative.
The judges were seeking examples of best practice and demonstrable results from a business’s use of digital and social media. In particular they looked for excellence in web design, execution of planned social media marketing and use of Internet technology.
The Good Exchange’s entry also included examples of how we are helping our users to enhance their fundraising via the active use of social media marketing.
