Charity

Simple technology
to drive fundraising

Increase mobile donations with our text-to-donate solutions

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Donations made simple!
Donations, competitions and society lotteries; Fonix offers supporters the easiest way to donate to charities by sending a simple text message. Sending a text message is quick, easy and frictionless, essentially it’s a channel that anyone can use on impulse. Fonix has a proven track record working with high-profile clients, such as Comic Relief, BBC Children in Need and National Trust, using innovative techniques to increase donations, value and Gift Aid declarations.

What are the benefits?

  • Increase donations using proven CRM techniques
  • Donations are seamlessly added to your supporters mobile phone bill or deducted from their phone credit
  • A secure & contactless way to give
  • Quick campaign set up, simple reporting
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Why Fonix?

Unique features

Delayed Donation

Competition & raffles made easy with
embedded delayed donation technology

Fonix offers delayed donation technology
which enables donors to donate or to opt-out
of a donation whilst entering a competition.

Gift Aid

Hosted branded Gift Aid microsite to
maximise Gift Aid declarations

Fonix builds dedicated microsites for donors
to make Gift Aid declarations.

Did you know?

Text donations are consistently the largest donation type in a telethon.
Comic Relief has seen 70% of donations coming in via SMS.

Want to find out more? Download our fact sheet.

Video Q & A

‘The rising importance of text to donate for charities’ featuring our CEO Rob Weisz and Ana Maria Flores, Senior Programme Manager at Cancer Research.

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Common Questions

This will depend on the size and scale of the campaign but can be in as little as a couple of hours.

(TV, Print, Billboards, Social Media etc.) Yes, just make sure Terms & Conditions are clearly communicated throughout your advertisements. Fonix are happy to check promotions are compliant and offer advice.

 

Text competitions and raffles are classified as free draws by the Gambling Commission. This means that individuals must have a way of entering the raffle for free. This is a much more cost-effective way of organising a raffle and means more money reaches the charity. Fonix’s delayed donation technology which enables donors to donate or to opt-out of a donation whilst entering a competition.

Just some of our case studies​

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Mobile donations & fundraising
  • £12.4 million raised via text-to-donate
  • £40 price point alone contributing to 20% of the overall amount raised via text-to-donat
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The aim was to raise as much as possible via text-to-donate
  • Raised over £5.5m in SMS donations
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Helping raise money with mobile donations
  • £1,815,530 raised in SMS donations
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