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Part two of our Flora London Marathon report 2009

June 11, 2009 at 3:02 pm · Filed under Justgiving for Charities ·Tagged , , ,

Last month, we released part one of our first ever London Marathon report, which included all the online fundraising statistics you’ll ever need to know about the most popular fundraising event in the world. If you missed part 1, you can download a copy by filling in the short form here.

Part 2 of the report includes benchmarking data on totals raised by different charity categories, as well as revealing average individual totals and donation amounts by category. If you want to know how well your charity did in the context of the total raised, or in comparison to other categories, this is the only way to find out.

Download your copy now below in your preferred format:

Flora London Marathon 2009 report – part 2 (pdf, 1.4 MB)

Flora London Marathon 2009 report – part 2 (Word doc, 1.33 MB)

Please let us know any feedback by leaving a comment below or emailing our insights team at insights@justgiving.com.

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Phil Packer hits his £1 million target

May 27, 2009 at 8:59 am · Filed under Inspiration for fundraisers ·Tagged , , , ,

We’ve been following Phil Packer’s campaign to raise £1 million for Help for Heroes and we’re delighted to say that he’s done it! From the original prognosis of never being able to walk again, through a series of seemingly impossible challenges Phil has motivated so many people to support him and has managed to raise the £1 million in just over a year. Congratulations to Phil from everyone here at Justgiving – your strength and courage has been a real inspiration to us all.

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Even though he has beaten his target he isn’t stopping now and on the 9th June he will attempt to pull himself up El Capitan Mountain – 1800ft, with 4254 pull ups over 3 days. Find out more about his next challenge on his website and sponsor him on his Justgiving page.

Phil wanted to thank everyone who has supported him through his challenges and asked us to share this message with you all:

“The intent to raise £1million for Help for Heroes was, I have discovered, my way of taking some form of responsibility and role to replace those that disappeared on the 19th February last year when I left the men and women I commanded and cared for passionately. I felt I lost control of everything; felt inadequate, my confidence disappeared and I woke up with a feeling of complete emptiness. This original Quest was a way of giving something back and selfishly perhaps, was a way of filling the void in my life. I appreciate every donation I have received; I read every letter and every message. I could never have reached this target without the constant support of all my family and friends that have worked tirelessly to help me. The National Press have been fantastic and have raised the profile of my campaign, and so many, through their generosity, have made this £1million for those that need such vital support. Thousands of remarkably selfless acts of kindness that make a difference.

I will continue to strive to boost the £1million we have reached and go all out to gain more support for Help for Heroes whilst on the El Capitan Mountain Challenge. I also sincerely hope that these challenges are and will raise awareness of disability and enthuse others. When I have reached the summit, I hope to be able to announce where and how this Quest will develop and then to provide a Statement of Intent and the next stage of this journey.

Once again, to everyone who has made this possible and made this happen; thank you – I would not be here without your support and your kindness. It doesn’t stop here!”

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Phil Packer finishes the London Marathon

May 14, 2009 at 9:31 am · Filed under In the News, Inspirational fundraising, Justgiving Resources, Justgiving Towers, New on Justgiving, Our News, Success Stories ·Tagged , , , , ,

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You can’t have failed to hear about Phil Packer’s amazing challenge to complete the London Marathon over 13 days after being left paraplegic due to a rocket attack in Basra last year. We’ve followed his quest to raise £1 million pounds for Help for Heroes and were there to walk the last mile of his Marathon challenge with him on Saturday. It was amazing to see quite how many people came along on the day to cheer him on, hundreds of well wishers, family, friends and the royal military police were there lining the last hundred yards.

After Phil Packer was injured last year he was told he would never walk again, but he has defied medics by not only walking but also completing the 26.2 miles of the London Marathon. What is even more impressive is that he only re-learnt to walk with crutches a month before his marathon.  We have all been so moved by Phil’s challenge that we just had to be there when he finished – cheering, taking photos and tweeting. We even managed to get an interview with him:

We met some lovely people such as Chloe, who gave up her job to help Phil’s campaign, Sir Steve Redgrave who presented Phil with his medal for completing the marathon, Angela Packer, Phil’s absolutely wonderful mother and many, many, more.

The  response from the public has been fantastic and the amount that has been raised on his Justgiving page has been growing at a fantastic rate  – every minute the amount on his page seems to go up my another thousand pounds or so. Just look at how his page has grown over the few weeks since he started his marathon walk.

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Phil Packer is now just over £100k away from reaching his target – he is so focused on reaching his target amount for Help for Heroes that he has already set up his next challenge. Next month he will climb the 3,000ft vertical rock face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, requiring him to do 4,000 pull ups to reach the top.

Please visit his page and help him get to his target.

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London Marathon competitions and video

May 11, 2009 at 9:21 am · Filed under In the News, Inspiration for fundraisers, Inspirational fundraising, New on Justgiving ·Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

It’s been nearly two weeks since the London Marathon and we’re all still really impressed by your efforts and how much you’ve raised – and continue to raise. It’s just under £23 million so far and it keeps growing every day.  This figure already smashes the total raised last year.

At the moment, it’s 15% more than this time last year and there are still three months of fundraising left. This is a huge amount of money by any standard, and considering the current economic climate, the fundraising that all our London Marathon runners have done is utterly outstanding. Well done.

We had such a great time cheering you guys on and meeting you at the London Marathon Expo. We made a little video and some of you kindly agreed to take part, sharing your fundraising stories and your thoughts about Justgiving. We think it’s really great, and if you fancy finding out what animal you think Justgiving is you should take a look!

We also had a load of competitions (well 5!) for our London Marathon fundraisers and we’re happy to announce that we have the winners. At the Expo we had two drawing competitions, one for the picture that most resembled its owner and one for ’best artistic interpretation’ – we got the whole Justgiving office to vote on their favourite picture and the winner is:

Neil Ruff – Everyone in the office was asked to vote and this is our favourite.

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As for ‘picture most like the owner’, we just can’t decide. We’ve narrowed it down to three and now we need you to choose. Cast your vote by commenting on the picture you want to win, and we’ll announce the results on the blog at the end of next week.

Please comments below to vote on our 3 runners up:

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Nial and Thea Hoskin

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Michael Ripley

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‘Best video appearance’ goes to Una Clarke – congratulations Una! If you’ve watched the video I think you’ll agree that her interview in costume is deserving of the prize! She hadn’t set up a page until she met us at our Expo stand so we helped her to set it up there and then. The £25 prize will be one of her first donations so please help raise some more.

The fourth competition was for the best fundraising tip, and we have been blown away by your fundraising ingenuity. It was very hard to pick a winner but Haylee Hibbert stands out because of her cleverness in exploiting the potential of Facebook and the sheer level of detail in the tip she gave. Check out her fabulous Facebook tip and all of the other tips that have been submitted.We are thinking of turning them into a fundraising booklet, let us know if you have any great ideas about what we could do to make sure they are used.

The astute amongst you will remember that we said there were 5 prizes up for grabs and you would be right! The final competition is for the best dressed runner, who will also win a £25 donation to their page. We have had lots of entries but have been asked to extend the competition to allow some people to get their pictures to us. So you’ve got until 22nd May. If you ran the London Marathon in a costume, send a photo in to heather@Justgiving.com.

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Flora London Marathon report 2009

May 8, 2009 at 2:44 pm · Filed under Justgiving for Charities ·Tagged , , ,

As you may have read in Third Sector or UK fundraising, we recorded our best ever London Marathon figures this year, helping almost 18,000 people raise a staggering £22 million for charities. With fundraising still continuing, we’re anticipating a final total of £25 million to be raised.

We’ve put together a comprehensive report giving you all the details up to the day of the marathon about how much traffic we had (over 5 million visits in the week pre-Marathon), how many donations we processed (peaking at 2 a second) and how our 100% uptime enabled unprecedented fundraising for charities on Justgiving. We’re including all of last year’s figures too to put them in context.

Find out all the details by downloading part one of our Flora London Marathon 2009 online fundraising analysis report. Part 2 will be issued in June with all the post-event stats that you’ll need.

Last year, we had to limit access to charity reporting over the marathon period because our servers couldn’t cope. We said sorry, and committed to making sure it didn’t happen again. Since then,  we’ve spent £1.5 million on investing in the following areas: improving our infrastructure and updating reporting.

Read the whole story in our Flora London Marathon 2009 online fundraising analysis report.

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