Giving is good, and we want to make it even better!
Gifts are always welcome, but it’s so much better when the gift you give or receive really hits the mark. Too often people receive gifts that they already have, or don’t really want, and usually it’s because the person who has given the gift doesn’t know what they want or cannot afford it. We created Giftshare to help everyone avoid wasted gifts – to make it easy to share gift ideas and give the right gift.
The story started in 2000, when we were talking to some friends who worked at a charity called Whizz-Kidz. They were trying to find ways to make fundraising more efficient, so that every pound given helped more children lead normal lives, and we suggested putting sponsorship forms online. We launched www.bmycharity.com and since then we’ve helped hundreds of charities from Oxfam and Cancer Research UK to tiny local organisations to raise over £10 million – and we’ve helped them make every donation go further by reducing the administrative costs of fundraising – every donation is accounted for electronically.
We knew we could use the same approach to make personal gifts easier to organise – and make the giving process more fun too – so we created Giftshare.
