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Our new Charity Support area

Lots of you will know we have a charities helpdesk, in the form of Natalie, Liz and Gemma, who are here Monday to Friday 9-6 on the phone and email.

In a nutshell, they’re great. So great, in fact, that we wanted to make the help and support they give our charities into a special area on Justgiving where charities can go for information, advice, training, resources and more. And so…

We‘re really pleased to announce that our lovely new Charity Support area is up and running and helping our charities *as we speak*.

This is where it lives: www.justgiving.com/charitysupport

It’s a mixture of:
- video tutorials for you to watch over a coffee
- interactive online training sessions
- clear instructions for you to print out
- slideshows on all kinds of things
- a searchable FAQ section
- and much, much more…

So now, if you’ve got someone new in the office who isn’t familiar with Justgiving, all they need to do is look at the ‘New to Justgiving’ section. Or, if you’d like some more ideas on how to make the most of Justgiving, the section on ‘How to raise more money’ is for you.

Don’t worry, our charities helpdesk isn’t going anywhere – they’re still very much here to help you on the phone or over email. But in the time it takes you to write that email, you may well find the answers at www.justgiving.com/charitysupport

And now it’s over to you. We’d love to know what you think, so please do have a look and then let us know your feedback in our short survey.

It’ll help us keep on giving you the support you need.

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An appreciation (of JustGiving’s Gemma)

On Tuesday we received a particularly lovely email entitled “An Appreciation” from Brin Dunsire, Funding Adviser at the Diocese of Northampton, about the help he’d received from the lovely Gemma on our charities helpdesk. It was so nice that we felt the need to share it on the blog:

I would like to express my warm appreciation of the help our Diocesan charity has had from Gemma Randall on your helpdesk. We had an unusual set of tasks that we needed her help with, requests deriving from the peculiar structure of a Catholic Diocese as a single charity with different sub-agencies and “branches”.

Many IT organisations would have said “No, we’re simply not set up to be able to do that, you’ll just have to set up a completely new page and pay all over again”. Gemma has been patient, understanding, creative, and keen to help, and I feel we have had genuine personal service, which is an increasingly rare commodity.

And we raised a goodly amount of money !

All blessings to all your staff and on your excellent work.

Brin Dunsire – Funding Adviser, Diocese of Northampton

As someone who has the pleasure of sitting next to Gemma, I couldn’t agree more (she just brought me a lovely cup of tea, which helps). Thanks Brin for the feedback and allowing us to publish it :-)

Here’s Gemma is with Kai (and an interesting spelling of JustGiving) from our Flickr stream:

Greatest Spelling Yet?

We’re really proud of the fact that we have real people (who are passionate, knowledgeable and articulate) at the end of a phone or email to help – providing the best customer service we can is one of the most important parts of our service.

As well as Gemma, there’s also Liz and Natalie who woman our charities helpdesk on 0845 021 2133 and charities@justgiving.com

I should also add that Jules, Huu and Mike man (sometimes dressed as fish) our fundraiser/donor helpdesk on 0845 021 2110 and help@justgiving.net – if any of your charity’s supporters need help, these are the people to call.

These helpful guys and gals are here Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and can help with all things Justgiving related, and sometimes things entirely unrelated to JustGiving – the other day I heard Mike explaining how the BCC email field works to a fundraising page owner…

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