Vodafone and JustGiving Extend their Free Text Donation Service

Ohh this looks interesting! Anyone used Text donation? How well did it work for you?

The mobile phone provider Vodafone and the donation website JustGiving have made their text donation service JustTextGiving available to individuals that want to raise money for charity. The companies launched JustTextGiving; a service that they said would enable all UK-registered charities to raise money through text donations for free, in May. So far it has only been available to charities but from today individual fundraisers will be able to set up their own unique code that can be used to direct text donations to their chosen charity. Participants, who must be aged 18 or over, need to register on the JustTextGiving site and set up a unique code for their fundraising, which is all free of charge. When they do this they will be allowed to choose the charity – which must also be registered with the service – that will benefit from any fundraising through the code. The individual can then publicise the code at fundraising events, inviting donors to send donations by text. This message would have to contain the unique code and the amount the donor wanted to give, and be sent to 70070.