2025 is here, and this past year, the JustGiving community hit massive milestones, made incredible memories, and reached new heights. All while raising hundreds of millions of pounds and making a real difference for charities like yours.
It’s time to share 2024’s biggest, best, and most beautiful Moments That Mattered. But with so many, where do we even start?
Luckily, we took notes (and pictures – lots and lots of pictures)!
Because people didn’t only raise money. They dedicated their time, energy, passion, love, heart, and soul to raise over £584 million (!) for what matters.
Ready for Moments That Mattered? Let’s check out the amazing people, stories, and highlights of 2024.
£584m raised for UK charities in 2024
Let’s kick this off with one of the most amazing achievements of all…
JustGiving fundraisers helped charities raise more than half a billion pounds in 2024!
Dedicated fundraisers created over 1,000,000 JustGiving Fundraising Pages to help good causes get that much closer to achieving their mission.
A few highlights from 2024 include…
£44 million raised in London Marathon 2024
Thousands of amazing fundraisers raised as part of their participation in London Marathon 2024.
Plus, we gave three lucky fundraisers £2,000 bonus donations to boost their impact even more!
Have a tissue handy? Because here’s the emotional video of when we called the winner to let them know they’ve won one of these massive donations.
19,000 JustGiving campaign pages created by charities
Charities used Campaign Pages for everything from annual appeals, fundraising events, and special projects.
400+ world record attempts
The JustGiving community isn’t like any other – they go the distance for their causes! Over 400 awe-inspiring fundraisers aimed for new world records, like when the epic Lloyd Martin raised £18,000 and made history as the youngest person with Down Syndrome to complete a marathon.
£200 million raised in fitness events
All in all, fundraisers ran, walk, cycled, swam, rolled, skipped, and danced a mind-bending 79 million miles in 2024.
That included both passionate fundraisers who joined big events like Great North Run and London Landmarks Half Marathon, and also those who did their own activity in their own time.
Not only that – fundraisers used JustGiving to raise £155 million from running alone…an 11% increase from 2023!
After losing both grandparents to dementia, brothers Joe and Ben ran 10k every single day in January to support Dementia UK:
The most inspiring night of the year
At the 2024 GoCardless JustGiving Awards, we gave sparkling trophies to eight life-changing fundraisers, who raised £16 million combined.
From the eight Angel Mums who took on a skydive and raised £77,000 in memory of their children…
To 12-year-old Maya Tohid, who raised +£10,000 on JustGiving for Young Lives Vs. Cancer by completing a 100km personal running challenge during 24 sessions of radiotherapy treatment.
To the “human disco ball” Freya Morgan, whose put her legal skills to work to raise £21,000 to support migrants…
These fundraisers are some of the most unbelievable we’ve ever heard of. Meet the 2024 winners, finalists, celebrity judges, and more!
Zoe’s Place saved!
What happens when people commit to making a difference together? They allow life-saving causes to continue doing their amazing work.
That’s exactly what happened when hundreds of fundraisers and tens of thousands of supporters raised £6.5 million on JustGiving to save Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice, which can now continue to help babies with life-threatening conditions.
New features for charities
At JustGiving, we’re always working to make fundraising easier, faster, and more accessible for charities, fundraisers, donors, and supporters alike.
In 2024, we released a bunch of shiny new features, updates, and changes to make your JustGiving experience even better!
Cryptocurrency donations
JustGiving fundraisers can now make donations to charities using over 60 cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, powered by our partnership with The Giving Block.
Let’s Do This
We unlocked the ability for charities to reach thousands of new supporters and raise more money with Let’s Do This, the UK’s largest endurance event marketplace, directly through JustGiving.
Refreshed Campaign Page design
Campaign Pages (and your supporters’ Fundraising Pages) got a new coat of paint, with better personalisation features and readability enhancements.
Three new fundraising strategy guides
Whether you’re preparing for London Marathon 2025, planning another fundraising event, or need the step-by-step to a perfect winter fundraising campaign, we’ve got a guide for that!
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Even more Moments That Mattered!
The moments above are only a few of 2024’s best JustGiving moments. See the full list of moments, milestones, and memories.
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