Together for Good: The £5,000 funding initiative
Waitrose and easyfundraising have come Together for Good to support donate £1,000 to churches and other community organisations. For your chance to receive this funding boost for your church, follow these simple steps:
1. Firstly, register your church with fundraising platform easyfundraising before 31st October. Easyfundraising enables your church to receive unrestricted funding from 8,000 online retailers, including Waitrose.
2. Ask everyone connected to your church to use easyfundraising’s platform to shop with Waitrose throughout October. Every time someone shops online at Waitrose, your church will enter the draw to receive a £1,000 funding boost. The more people who shop online with Waitrose, the more chances your church has of winning.
Plus, when your church community shop with Waitrose, they’ll raise £10 for your church if it’s their first shop, and £1.50 for each subsequent shop they do.*
💡 Top tip: Use the free marketing tools easyfundraising provide to share this opportunity with your congregation, clergy and volunteers.
Through the easyfundraising partnership, 7,500 online retailers including Amazon, eBay, John Lewis, Etsy, M&S, Screwfix, Waitrose, Argos, Eden, Boots, Trainline will donate money to your church when your parishioners shop online with them – for free!
Here’s how it works: when your parishioners use the easyfundraising website to find a retailer they want to shop with, the retailer sends your church a free donation based on how much they spend. It doesn’t cost anything extra as the retailer pays the donation, not the shopper.
It’s a bit like using a cashback site, but instead of one individual benefiting, your church community can pull together and raise for your organisation. Anything from a weekly grocery shop to a family holiday can generate a free donation.
Every 3 months you receive all the donations raised by your parishioners, into your church’s bank account or paid by cheque (subject to a minimum amount raised).
What’s in it for your church?
Not only does easyfundraising allow your church to create a new income stream that fundraisers and raffles are unable to offer, especially in the current climate, it also enables people to give without it coming directly out of their pockets.
What do other churches in the Diocese think?
“This is a great way to increase funding for your church. I would absolutely recommend it to other churches – it’s easy to use, both for the user and the administrator, for everyday purchases via the internet.” Clive J, St Mary and St Peter Church Lois Weedon, £927 raised
“easyfundraising is something we have found helpful to our church’s finances. It’s a simple way of enabling supporters of the church to use their online purchases to raise funds at no cost to themselves. I would recommend it. We use our easyfundraising income to support the general running costs of the church.” Stuart B, St Botolph's – Slapton. £366 raised so far.
“easyfundraising is easy to use and something we have found helpful to our church’s finances. It’s a simple way of enabling supporters of the church to use their online purchases to raise funds at no cost to themselves!” says Stuart from St Botolph’s – Slapton.
Getting started
- Create your church profile on the easyfundraising site – it’s very quick and easy to do
- Get familiar with easyfundraising. Book a call with a team member, to help you get started
- Use the free marketing tools easyfundraising provide to tell your church about it. These include social media copy, images, posters, and flyers.
If you have questions and would like to speak to someone about easyfundraising before getting started, please contact our Account Manager becky@easyfundraising.org.uk who will be happy to help you.