Right here at JustGiving, we all know that understanding information is vital for fundraising success. By analysing traits, your charity can adapt extra successfully to altering circumstances.
After 20+ years and tens of millions of donations made via our platform, we’ve acquired a stable grasp of the fundraising panorama. We’re all the time completely satisfied to share our findings, and that’s why we developed our quarterly JustGiving Insights webinar sequence.
On this round-up, we’re placing 2023 in context with the important thing traits from the current Winter version of JustGiving Insights. In order for you extra element and context, watch the webinar now on-demand.
A Yr of Insights
We’ve break up issues down into three key areas:
- P2P Fundraising
- Particular person Giving
- Within the Highlight: Occasion Fundraising Developments
We hope this report helps you make extra knowledgeable fundraising choices as we head into 2024.
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Insights
First up, we’re overlaying all issues P2P Fundraising (peer-to-peer fundraising). This implies particular person fundraisers who accumulates donations on your charity by having no less than one JustGiving fundraising web page.
We see all kinds of actions taking place utilizing fundraising pages, from marathons to pub quizzes and bake gross sales.
Constant Web page Activation Charges
2023 was a difficult 12 months for many individuals because of the ongoing cost-of-living disaster popping out of the COVID-19 expertise. Luckily, web page activation charges held regular because the similar interval in 2022. This can be a promising signal that regardless of a common tightening of belts, those that create a web page are nonetheless persevering with to see their pages ‘activated’ by receiving that all-important first donation.
Modifications in Behaviour
It’s attention-grabbing to notice that whereas web page values (the entire quantity raised) have stayed constant year-on-year as beneath…
…how charities and fundraisers get to those self same web page values has modified. In 2023 we noticed that the donation rely to fundraising pages is rising (which means extra persons are donating), however they’re selecting to donate barely lower than in 2022.
In essence, which means that fundraisers could also be having to work tougher and sharing their pages extra typically to draw extra donors to hit the identical web page worth as final 12 months.
It’s clear then, that charity stewardship, fundraiser assist and encouragement are extra vital than ever.
Common Giving to Fundraising Pages
We’re excited to see such development in common giving to fundraising pages and that this (pretty new) performance has the potential to accumulate new supporters on your charity.
Provided that fundraisers are working tougher to hit their targets, allow them to find out about this function and encourage them to advertise. Receiving a daily donation to their web page might make all of the distinction in rising their web page worth.
The Want for Stewardship
One of many key takeaways from these findings is the continued want for stewardship on your fundraisers. Encourage your supporters to maintain sharing their pages and to make use of all of the personalisation instruments on supply to make their web page as participating as attainable.
This fundraiser stewardship will look a bit of completely different for every charity, however we all know from expertise that engaged, well-supported fundraisers have a tendency to usher in extra donations.
Particular person Giving Insights
Subsequent up, listed here are some attention-grabbing traits associated to particular person giving. This refers to when an individual makes a direct donation to your charity by way of your JustGiving profile web page or Giving Checkout (which takes your donors via a personalized JustGiving donation kind straight out of your web site or different exterior channels).
The Energy of Contactless
We’ve seen a gentle enhance within the variety of single donations to charities since pre-pandemic instances. A lot of this enhance is because of the adoption of contactless donations utilizing JustGiving’s integration with Liberty Pay, particularly in the course of the festive interval.
If we exclude contactless donations from the rely, we see that the donation worth and quantity have stayed constant year-on-year. Contemplating the difficult financial instances we’re at the moment residing via, that is actually encouraging information.
Common Giving Will increase
Similar to with P2P fundraising, common giving noticed some optimistic will increase in 2023. Some key traits embrace a 30% YOY development in common giving with a median month-to-month present of £16 (£4 enhance vs. pre-pandemic).
We additionally see a gentle discount in month-to-month common giving cancellations. A part of that is because of the roll-out of our direct debit providing. At this second in time, extra persons are selecting to donate small presents, however extra typically.
Occasion Fundraising Developments
The primary two quarters of the 12 months are inclined to see elevated exercise associated to fundraising occasions, and 2023 was no completely different. What’s extra, occasion fundraising noticed a 15% enhance in comparison with 2022. That is an encouraging signal that charities, fundraisers, and supporters had been wanting to get out and get entangled in face-to-face actions.
The beneath information pertains to organised occasions solely – this contains occasions organised by charities or third-party occasion organisers.
Don’t Low cost Strolling and Trek Occasions
It may not shock you to know that operating occasions make up the one largest class of fundraising pages on JustGiving. However now we have additionally seen a gentle enhance in strolling and trek occasions, which may be extra accessible for households and broader age teams.
Taken collectively, these occasions make up 45% of occasion pages created on the JustGiving platform. Generally a enjoyable, community-building occasion actually could be a ‘stroll within the park’!
The Function of Digital Occasions
From 2020 to 2022, we noticed a gentle lower in common web page values for digital occasions. However 2023 noticed a small (2%) year-on-year enhance over 2022. Whereas this will likely not look like a lot, we’ve additionally seen whole donations for digital occasions bounce by a whopping 30%!
The decline in digital occasions is sensible because of the return of in-person occasions in 2022. However the slight enhance from final 12 months appears to point that digital occasions will proceed to play a job in P2P and particular person fundraising within the years to come back. Digital occasions could not all the time resonate with donors in all instances, however they need to stay an possibility in your charity’s fundraising providing.
Key Takeaways
Focus On Stewardship
Web page values are staying regular, however your fundraisers are having to share their web page extra typically to encourage these donations. Why not take a look at our on-demand webinar about utilizing JustGiving information to enhance your e mail stewardship?
Think about Contactless Giving
If supporters have extra giving choices obtainable to them, the better the chance they are going to donate to your trigger. Should you haven’t already integrated contactless giving into your technique, you may learn the way JustGiving’s partnership with Liberty Pay can assist your fundraising.
Give Digital Occasions Some Love
It might really feel like we’re ‘again to regular’ in some methods, however the world is just not the identical because it was earlier than the pandemic. Digital occasions are actually part of the fundraising ecosystem. Should you’re not already incorporating them into your fundraising efforts, now’s the time to consider doing so.
There’s a lot extra to dig into by watching the Insights webinar itself. Which concepts and traits stand out most to you? Tell us within the feedback beneath!
