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The all-in-one fundraising platform: why the operating system beats point solutions

The UK fundraising platform space is crowded with single-product brands. The winning category in 2026 is the operating system, not the point solution.

Matchday Fundraising Ideas That Actually Work for UK Clubs

How UK grassroots clubs can raise more on a home fixture: 50/50 draws, match ball sponsorship, half-time challenges and the lottery rules to follow.

3 Oct 2026

4 min

A packed charity quiz night in a British sports clubhouse function room, a foreground team in navy and yellow club tops throwing their arms up in celebration as a quizmaster calls a question and raffle hampers wait on a side table.

Fundraising Tips

How to Run a Quiz Night Fundraiser for Your Club (UK Guide)

A practical UK guide to running a club quiz night that actually raises money: format, pricing, raffle rules, promotion and the online draw that lifts the total.

2 Oct 2026

4 min

Three volunteer committee members at a wooden table in a small sports clubhouse reviewing paperwork with a calculator and laptop, sports kit on a rack behind them and an empty pitch outside the window

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Should Your Club Register as a CASC? A UK Guide for Committees

CASC status can cut a club's rates bill by 80% and unlock Gift Aid on donations, but it is close to permanent. What UK committees should weigh first.

1 Oct 2026

4 min

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A parent in a woolly jumper sits by a fairy-lit clubhouse window on a December evening holding a smartphone, with a small Christmas tree and a frosty floodlit pitch outside

Fundraising Guides

Don't Close Your Christmas Draw Early: What December's Giving Data Tells UK Clubs

goDonate's December 2025 data shows 15% of one-off gifts landing between 22 and 24 December and 67% of Christmas Eve giving on mobile. Why your club's Christmas draw should stay open later — and the phone checks to make before launch.

30 Sept 2026

6 min

A grassroots rugby union player in a navy and yellow hooped shirt breaks through a diving tackle on a muddy club pitch in bright winter sunshine.

Fundraising Tips

How to Find Local Sponsors for Your Grassroots Club (UK Guide)

Where to find local sponsors for your UK grassroots club, what to offer them, how much to ask for, and how to keep them renewing season after season.

30 Sept 2026

5 min

An aerial drone-angle view looking down over a UK grassroots football match on a winter morning, a corner kick dropping into a crowded penalty area as players in navy and yellow striped kit and teal and coral kit leap for the header and the goalkeeper in green stretches for the ball, with long shadows across the marked grass pitch and a brick clubhouse beyond the rope barrier.

Fundraising Tips

How to Run a Last Man Standing Fundraiser for Your Club (UK Guide)

How UK grassroots clubs run a Last Man Standing competition that raises money — the format, the pot split, the admin, and the UK gambling rules to check first.

29 Sept 2026

5 min

A lead pack of grassroots club runners, the leader in a navy and yellow vest, sprint through deep mud on a taped autumn cross-country course in an English park.

Best Practices

How to Collect Club Subs On Time: A UK Guide for Treasurers

Chasing membership subs is a process problem, not a people problem. A practical UK guide to fixed deadlines, one-minute payments, reminder sequences and covering the gap subs leave.

27 Sept 2026

5 min

A volunteer club treasurer in a fleece and reading glasses reviews paperwork at a wooden clubhouse table beside an open laptop, calculator, mug of tea and raffle ticket stubs

Fundraising Guides

The Free Draw Rulebook Just Slipped to Early 2027 — Here's What Your Club Should Do With the Extra Time

The Fundraising Regulator's new rules for free draw operators — phased minimum charitable contributions of 10%, 15% then 20% — have slipped from September 2026 to early 2027. What was proposed, why it matters, and the three checks every club should make now.

26 Sept 2026

6 min

A golfer in a navy polo and bright yellow cap drives from an elevated tee on a sunlit British parkland golf course, with a striped fairway, sand bunkers and a distant green below.

Fundraising Tips

How to Run a Charity Golf Day for Your Club (UK Guide)

A practical UK guide to running a charity golf day: formats, hole sponsorship, on-course extras, the raffle and lottery rules, and how an online draw raises more.

26 Sept 2026

5 min

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