As promised earlier on Twitter, I’ve some really exciting news to share!
Virgin Money Giving, the new online donations platform created by the clever clogs at Virgin Money is now on board as *the* online donations platform for the 7 Wonders in 7 Days project.
This is really exciting as working with Virgin Money Giving means that all donations to 7 Wonders in 7 Days will now be through one ‘Donate’ page.
This is going to simplify fundraising significantly as it makes more sense to offer people one place to donate to all 7 charities rather than 7 as would have been the case using JustGiving.com.
I’ll be linking the Donate page on this website to the Virgin Money Giving page for 7 Wonders in 7 Days as all the 7 charities sign up to the Virgin Money Giving service. Only 3 are signed up at the moment as you can see.
I’m particularly excited about this new development because it comes directly out of discussions with two of the 7 charities I am supporting: British Red Cross and Feed The Minds.
Those of you following the 7 Wonders in 7 Days Twitter stream will know that I’ve been making contact with all 7 charities over the last month and had great initial meetings with British Red Cross and Feed The Minds last Tuesday.
I met with Alzheimer’s Research Trust earlier today and will be meeting Diabetes UK next week!
The meetings with the fundraising teams at the charities have been incredibly inspiring.
As mentioned briefly on Twitter, I’m now working with the charities to develop an online video competition based around the 7 wonders in 7 Days project. The competition will be launching in January 2010 and I’m really excited about it!
I can’t give very much away just yet but I will say that it is the sort of thing you’d read about in Metro, the free newspaper available in most UK cities!
Do keep an eye on the 7 Wonders in 7 Days Twitter page as I regularly post daily updates there. I’ll be blogging less frequently as I get on with planning the video competition.
Also, don’t forget to get your tickets to the first of our monthly music fundraisers, raising much needed funds for Alzheimer’s Research Trust. It’s next Friday, 16th October!
As usual, I’d love to hear your feedback.
If you have any thoughts on the latest developments: signing up with Virgin Money Giving, the top secret video competition, next week’s music fundraiser or anything else 7 Wonders related, shout out in the comments!
Related posts:
- 7 Wonders in 7 Days on the Becky Want show on BBC Radio Manchester on Tues 7 July at 2pm
- 7 Wonders in 7 Days entered for Sheffield Doc/Fest Film Festival and Other News
- We’re also fundraising in Twollars, Twitter’s Currency!
- Signatures Starting to Come In For the 7 Wonders in 7 Days T-Shirt
- Young Minds ambassador and British racecar driver Jon Lancaster talks to 7 Wonders in 7 Days
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