National Fundraising
There are a variety of ways that people can donate to Freegle nationally, either by direct payment or by using services that donate to a chosen charity. (see Donations for Freegle for details).
Website
The website has a facility to donate - https://www.ilovefreegle.org/donate , and a Gift Aid form https://www.ilovefreegle/giftaid.
Members are asked to help on Freegle Direct group pages when they have completed a successful transaction.
Birthday appeals
In August 2025 it was decided to try to raise extra donations by sending out a Birthday emails. Planned to be sent out as groups reach their birthdays, an email or popup is sent to all the members of the group that have given their consent to be contacted.
Competitions
Occasionally, there are competitions that Freegle nationally have entered, examples:
April 2013
Freegle UK won the March 2013 Direct Debit Big Break competition. The winners were decided by popularity via online voting. The gross amount was £2,000, net £1,928.
October 2015
We took part in an online voting competition, Upgrade Your World, run by Microsoft as part of their promotional launch of Windows 10. Freegle was one of the winners, receiving $50,000. See Upgrade Your World 15/10/15
See [1] for nice comments received on Facebook as part of the voting.
October 2016 and October 2017
An online voting competition was run by Ebay, Ebay My Favourite Charity. In 2016 we won the second award of £3,000, and in 2017 we won the top award of £7,000.
October/November 2017
We submitted an entry to the Aviva Community Fund, via our insurers Naturesave. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cz33nH0CWvwhBSYsLwEveXC4aJZ4EudypeS2e6NJ_0g/edit#heading=h.9p6cj7x72h4v Sadly, this wasn't successful
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