Private company

Justgiving

Logo: JustGiving, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Global online social platform for giving

JustGiving is a British multinational online social platform for charity giving. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bankside, London, England. JustGiving has been owned by Blackbaud since its acquisition in October 2017.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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JustGiving is a British multinational online social platform for charity giving. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bankside, London, England. JustGiving has been owned by Blackbaud since its acquisition in October 2017. As of September 2025, JustGiving has 25,700 charities using its platform and 22 million users globally.2

The story

In 2000, Zarine Kharas and Anne-Marie Huby founded JustGiving (initially clickforaction.com), a company to provide online tools and processing services to enable the collection of charitable donations.

In 2002, JustGiving won the New Media Awards Grand Prix award and also Best Use of the Web award.

In 2004, JustGiving was recognised in the 2004 Charity Times annual Awards in their Fundraising & IT Services category. Charity Times said the company had "transformed the face of donating in the UK".

2006 was the firm's first profitable year. In June 2011, the firm claimed that it had provided its service for more than 9,000 UK registered charities and 1.9 million fundraising pages for users, collecting more than £770 million since launch.

The cumulative total passed £1 billion in March 2012. The cumulative total passed £4 billion in June 2016.

From Wikipedia’s article on JustGiving, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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