@bad09 Yer, I think it was just about lucky that I had already contributed  |
The Eurogamer Users 2018 charity drive • Page 26
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Technoishmatt 5,365 posts
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Jono62 27,356 posts
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Registered 13 years agoBlizeH donated \o/ -
He had to ask someone how to donate before doing it though!
Just wanted to say thanks to those that got the thread title changed and the post stickied.
The amount raised thus far has been amazing - I thought £500 was aspirational but clearly I didn't factor in the generosity of you people.
Virtual Jaffa cakes all round! -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYou mean you haven't seen him posting? He's one of our most prolific posters to this very day. Sure you haven't got him on ignore? -
I believe you can also set up gifting via mobile phone which might encourage more people to donate. -
Fourwisemen 1,107 posts
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Registered 11 years ago@kentmonkey
Great effort and gesture setting this page up, credit to you. I’ve made a small donation to what’s a wonderful cause, and whilst we all know it can’t do what we’d want it to do for Reacher, I hope this community coming together a little puts just a momentary smile on their face. -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agoWow. I'd not been on the forum, or even the Discord a huge amount lately, so I'd missed all of this. It's a good thing you've done, setting this up. -
RelaxedMikki 3,214 posts
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Registered 11 years agoNice work pinning this for the visibility. Seems a great charity.
Here's the justgiving link again:
Donate here:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/reacher
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dazcox5181 656 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThis is, of course, brilliant and a great example of the EG community spirit at its best...
...but it pains me knowing what JustGiving charge the charities (having worked in one which switched to a in house built alternative because of the fees charged) -
dazcox5181 wrote:
Just on this point, so it's clear to everyone (and don't take the below as me defending JustGiving. I think they could do better, if I'm honest, but there is lots of research to prove that donations, specifically fundraising to charities, has increased massively since they launched because of the easy access they provide. I worked in the sector for 17 years, so know this subject pretty well):
This is, of course, brilliant and a great example of the EG community spirit at its best...
...but it pains me knowing what JustGiving charge the charities (having worked in one which switched to a in house built alternative because of the fees charged)
JustGiving take about 5-9% of the total figure as a fee. It depends on how people have donated, but includes things like:
credit card surcharge fee
vat on the fee
paypal fee
sms fee
plus an admin fee for processing and reclaiming Gift Aid
Only charities that actively want to use JustGiving as a fundraising platform are on there. So no charity that doesn't want to use it is listed as available to donate to.
Plus if a charity does it themselves, they still have to pay credit card surcharge fees (which, for a charity the size of this one, will likely be about 2.5% due to them not having the income required to get a really low rate), staff to process the donations, staff to reclaim Gift Aid, and adhere to all online credit card processing rules, or pay someone else like World Pay to do that for them.
There was a study done about 5 years ago, albeit from a smallish sample (about 200 from memory) that showed that charities of small/medium size (which is about 180k of the 190k registered charities) wouldn't even reclaim Gift Aid on donations of under £30, as it wasn't economically viable. And for those that did, on the average donation (which I think was circa £18) about 30% of that was taken up on admin to process the transaction, process Gift Aid reclaim, and pay the related fees.
So although I think JustGiving could be slightly more transparent with how their fees are charged and exactly how much gets charged, I do think in the vast majority of cases (i.e. unless you're a 'Large' charity with fundraising turnover of circa £5m plus) they're more cost effective than doing it yourself.
Long post. Sorry. Just didn't want anyone to start shitting the bed that half of their donation was going to fund Rupert Murdoch or something.
(JustGiving do invest some of that fee back into marketing on behalf of the charity sector as well, so it's not all going to line the pockets of shareholders). -
bonturi 1 posts
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Jono62 27,356 posts
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Jono62 27,356 posts
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Registered 13 years agoWell done everyone. Over £900 .gif)
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Jono62 27,356 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI shared the link with Jason Manford as he popped up on my Facebook. -
the_milkybar_kid 8,474 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI know of the work the charity does, a colleague was unfortunate to find themselves in a similar situation to Reacher and honestly, they wouldn't have coped otherwise. Such an invaluable service.
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dazcox5181 656 posts
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Registered 13 years ago@kentmonkey sorry didn’t mean it to sound bad against them! I get smaller charities have little choice as running all that themselves would indeed be a nightmare! (And my experience was the biggest uk charity - NOT Oxfam though haha - and therefore our fees were crazy due to the amounts involved.)
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dazcox5181 wrote:
No that's alright mate. I know what you meant, and don't necessarily disagree. For big charities it doesn't make sense. Albeit it does from a marketing perspective. But for small-medium sized ones, they've boosted their coffers immensely.
@kentmonkey sorry didn’t mean it to sound bad against them! I get smaller charities have little choice as running all that themselves would indeed be a nightmare! (And my experience was the biggest uk charity - NOT Oxfam though haha - and therefore our fees were crazy due to the amounts involved.)
Anyway, will donate come payday on Monday!
I've done about 3-4 fundraisers on EG through them now, and we've raised over £2.5k. Without that platform, there's no easy way I could have organised funraising that amount. So they have their place.
Ideal world though charities wouldn't get charged credit card surcharges by the card companies, and could then do this themselves.
Anyway...we've nearly hit £1k! -
Jono62 27,356 posts
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Registered 13 years agoWoot Woot! 1k raised
Nice one Zom. -
Wahey!!!!
Well done everyone who has contributed. -
Lotos8ter 3,156 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI wasn't aware of this and my thoughts are with you and your family Reacher. -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI like round numbers. But then Lotos8ter had to go and ruin it with his generosity 
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Lotos8ter 3,156 posts
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Registered 14 years ago@Zomoniac
There's only one thing for it. Let's get to £2000 (or at least £1500 if you're 'number OCD' can accept it!) -
drhcnip 6,573 posts
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Registered 12 years agoamazing wok - well done, chaps! -
Reacher 3,104 posts
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Registered 10 years agoMorning,
Matthew (aka Bosh on ps4) passed away earlier this morning, in peace, with his family and friends around him. -
Jono62 27,356 posts
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Hope you are alright, Reacher. My thoughts are with your family at this time. -
Sorry for your loss Reacher.
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