Charities – customise your search page!

Did you know that you can customise the search page for your charity? You can add text, a logo and an image for the wallpaper, so that each time your supporters come to the page they can be reminded of why they are raising money for you.

First of all you need to register an administrator for your charity – search for your charity’s name in the ‘charity’ category in the Everyclick search box (change this via the drop down menu in the search box).

Then click on your charity’s name and go to their info page. If an administrator has not yet been registered, you can do so from here.

On your info page is a link to your charity’s search page – it will be the ‘URL’ in the light blue box at the top. This is the page you can customise.

Once your administrator is registered, sign in to the Everyclick admin system and edit your charity’s search page (you can edit your info page text and logo too).

For example The Woodland Trust remind their supporters of the beautiful British woodlands they are helping to protect:

Sim shows how to do it

Sim Dendy has created his own video to add to his fundraising page.

Rather than adding a video made by his charity to show the work they do, he took his camera out on a training run and then edited his video before adding it to YouTube.

Sim is running in the London Marathon on 25th April for his charity Links International Trust. He explains in the video what the charity does and makes a plea to his supporters to give generously.

Well done Sim, the Everyclick team think your video is fantastic!

Add Twitter updates to your fundraising page

Liven up your fundraising page by adding the feed for your Twitter updates – they will be shown on the right hand side of your page.

Let people know how your fundraising is going, how much you’ve raised so far offline, how well your training is going (or isn’t!).

It’s simple – just go to your Twitter page and click on the link ‘RSS feed of [your name] tweets’ on the right hand side of your page.

Copy the URL in the address bar of this page (it will look like http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17622084.rss with your unique account number).

Then paste the URL into the field on your create a fundraising page form which asks you to ‘add your Twitter feed’.

You can create a fundraising page by searching the charities category for the charity of your choice, or going to your account via the drop down arrow on the account bar in the top right of every page, and going to your ‘my page’ tab.

See an example:

Create a fundraising page with Everyclick.com

Fundraisers update

This week’s newly-created fundraising pages include those from half marathon runners, treks through Romanian mountains, plenty of London marathon participants and one lady who can’t wait to be strapped to a sexy army officer for a tandem sky dive!

Teresa Barford has never entered a half marathon before, so she decided to sign up for two! On the 21st February she is taking part in the very first Brighton Half Marathon (thought to be one of the hardest in the country) and then will run in the Eastbourne Half Marathon on the 7th March. She is running these in support of her charity Parkside School Parent Teachers Association.

Also being held on the 7th March is the Bath Half Marathon, in which Philip Vaughan-Fowler is taking part in support of his charity, the very busy Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation, which operates in Northern Snowdonia.

Dean Bedford and his friend Chris Benson will be attempting to walk 60km in one go for their charity AHS Foundation. They plan to make the long walk in May, and think it will take about 12 hours.

Robert Rowe and Jo Jowett have both signed up to take part in Love Light Romania’s 2010 treks in the Cindrel Mountains. The charity say the treks were very successful in 2009 on many levels and have arranged for two to take place in August and October 2010.

On the 28th March, Anne Calder says she will be throwing herself out of a plane whilst strapped to an army officer for her charity Macmillan Cancer Support. She says she thinks she might have a screw loose and would everyone support her generously!

Create your fundraising page with Everyclick.

Introducing FLOWE(RED)

The most powerful flowers you’ll ever buy.

Everyclick is delighted to be supporting (RED) who are launching a new online flower service in collaboration with Flamingo Flowers called FLOWE(RED), allowing you to send beautiful flowers that help save lives.

FLOWE(RED) makes its debut today with a gorgeous collection of contemporary, ethically-sourced flowers available from www.flowered.com.

These are the most powerful flowers you will ever buy, as all profits from each FLOWE(RED) order go directly to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa.

FLOWE(RED) sources many of its flowers directly from flower farms in Africa, helping to facilitate sustainable business in a number of African countries. What’s more, the purchase of every bouquet helps those living with HIV/AIDS in Africa so that they can continue caring for their families and contribute socially and economically to their communities. www.flowered.com.

Homepage daily image – facts

In response to a number of fundraisers’ emails asking us to provide information about the changing images on the homepage, we have added a link at the bottom left of the picture.

If you click on the link in the lower left hand corner of the image, it will expand into the information for the image displayed that day.

e.g. Broadway Tower in the Cotswolds:

Thanks for the £1,000,000 barrier feedback!

Thanks to all those who have emailed in to congratulate Everyclick on fundraising through the £1m barrier – but all the thanks should go to the amazing fundraisers who have run, jogged, walked, sky dived, parachuted, Dragon boat-raced, cycled, dieted, climbed poles, donated, made pleas, and Give as you Live-d as they are the ones who have raised the funds for their charities!

Here is some of the feedback we have received:

“Congratulations on raising £1 million!”

“Fantastic, congratulations.”

“Brilliant. Well done all!”

“Great news, keep up the good work.”

“Congratulations! An impressive landmark!”

“Congratulations – that’s an incredible achievement. Such a simple way to raise money for charities.

If only every business did a bit to help then the world would be a better place!

Well done and keep up the good work.”

Join us and help raise even more for charity – www.everyclick.com

A landmark moment, £1m raised for charity

On Tuesday morning Everyclick went through the magic £1 million raised for charity.

Getting to this point has taken a huge effort from a great team including all of our users.

£1m has been raised by 140,000 people searching the web and giving online. The funds raised have gone to over 16,000 different charities.

What next? When 10% of the internet searches in the UK happen on Everyclick, there’ll be an extra £211,000 raised for charity every day – that’s an extra £77million per year for your favourite charities.

As you’ll have noticed the new-look Everyclick is powered by Yahoo and also lists great eBay content so there are more ways than ever to raise money for charity – and you get great results.

Please help us celebrate, pass this message on. Just imagine the difference your friends, family and colleagues could make if they used Everyclick too!

Thank you to everyone that has helped get to this point. Look forward to delivering the next £76m to a great range of charities.

Give as you Live – raise funds for free as you search the web, shop online, trade on Ebay.

Fundraiser update

Momentum is slowly beginning to build for enthusiasts, people in fancy dress, serious athletes and keen fundraisers to run the Virgin London Marathon on the 25th April. It’s the biggest fundraising event in the world and so far over £450m has been raised by participants.

Everyclick fundraisers have started setting up their fundraising pages and so far have a collective fundraising target of £24,000. Best of luck and we hope you’re training hard despite the weather!

Brave Hazel Ralston wanted to raise funds for Alzheimer Scotland in memory of her dad, but instead of completing a mildly difficult challenge she has set herself the hardest task of taking part in a tandem sky dive on the 6th March. Hazel confesses she is terrified of heights!

Joanne Oliver says “A whole bunch of us are are walking/jogging and running the Hastings Half Marathon this March to raise money for the Association of Carers.”

The Hastings Half Marathon is held on the 6th March and is said to be the toughest in the country because of its hilly terrain, so well done to those you manage to run all the way!

The most active fundraising page this week belongs to Manuela Cea-Poblete and is entitled ‘Enterprise-in-a-box’. This refers to a new product being developed by the charity MyBnk, which is aimed at increasing young peoples enterprising skills, confidence, creativity and aspirations.

Manuela says: “The toolkit gives young people the means to generate money whilst learning valuable skills and knowledge.” For further information, visit the charity’s website.

To create your own fundraising page, sign up with Everyclick and start fundraising now!

Fundraising by video

Two new fundraisers have taken advantage of the Everyclick video feature to add a YouTube movie to their fundraising page.

Susan Vicary and Samantha Westlake have both added videos to their fundraising pages to show exactly what they are working so hard to raise money for.

Create your fundraising page with Everyclick so you can add a video, Twitter feed and blog feed to your fundraising page.