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5 Digital Fundraising Barriers and How to Overcome them

Fundraisers, and charity decision makers know...

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What is the Digital Skills Gap?

The Digital Skills Gap: a brief guide for...

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Benefits of Corporate Partnerships: for Charities and Businesses

What is corporate philanthropy? In simple terms,...

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Digital Transition for Socially-Minded Organisations

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Corporate Fundraising

How value-aligned fundraising benefits companies

People buy from businesses who share their principles. Getting involved with fundraising activities can be helpful to a business in many ways - and...

Digital Fundraising

5 Digital Fundraising Barriers and How to Overcome them

Fundraisers, and charity decision makers know that overcoming barriers when it comes to service delivery, is something that's done every single day....

Corporate Fundraising

Benefits of Corporate Partnerships: for Charities and Businesses

What is corporate philanthropy? In simple terms, it is the efforts and support of a business on behalf of a non-profit organisation, which helps...

A Guide for charities

What is the Digital Skills Gap?

The Digital Skills Gap: a brief guide for charities. Taking a look at digital inclusivity, and developing skills in digital, learn why supporting...

Gift Aid

Gift Aid Submissions: What you need to know

Working with charities, we know how valuable Gift Aid can be to fundraising income streams, especially during a tough economic climate. Here is a...

Digital Fundraising

5 Tips for Recession Fundraising

Here are our tips for handling a difficult fundraising climate, that will help you adapt to the effects of the recession. Fundraising outlook looking...

Heritage

How to get involved with Heritage Treasures Day

What is #HeritageTreasures Day? The National Lottery's Heritage Fund has created a yearly campaign in which venues such as museums, cathedrals and...

Donation Station

Closing the Funding Gap: Fundraising solutions for a Recession

We've established how the recession affects charities and the impact of this on fundraising income recently on our blog. Here are our thoughts on...

Digital Fundraising

The Good Will of Giving: measuring the impact of charities

Charities across the UK doing good As part of our series on charitable giving during a recession, we want to take a moment to remind ourselves of the...

Festive Fundraising

A year in the life of contactless fundraising devices: The Donation Station by GWD

What a year! Here at GWD, we are in awe of how well charities have adapted this year and can only hope the public's support for charitable...

Digital Fundraising

What happens to fundraising income during a recession?

What's the outlook like for charities during an economic downturn? The outlook for the immediate future is uncertain for charities. The news tells...

Fundraising

5 ways to improve fundraising at Mosques using contactless devices

Interested in boosting your donations income at Mosque? We've got 5 ideas from a digital fundraising perspective that you'll want to think about: ...

Donation Station

Ideas from Mosque Expo: using digital devices to improve fundraising

Fundraising for Mosques - what we learned at Mosque Expo Talking to Mosque Leaders recently at Mosque Expo, it was great to hear so much about how...

Fundraising

The Donation Station gets a boost: GWD secures additional funding to add new features and services

Tech-for-Good is here to stay The Donation Station by GWD represents a best-in-class contactless fundraising solution, that delivers an immersive...

Fundraising

Giving Tuesday - a quick guide for charities

What's Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday originates from the US, as a counterbalance to the commercialism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday - all...

Digital Fundraising

Fundraising in 2023: Trends and Opportunities

Let's be frank, 2023 is going to be a difficult year for charities. 2022 delivered excitement and turmoil in almost equal measure - and charities had...

Digital Fundraising

Using Fundraising Devices during a Cost of Living Crisis

For charities an economy in recession is usually bad news. Trends show donations typically fall - and this coupled with Cost of Living and Energy...

Donation Station

Christmas Fundraising with donation devices

Christmas giving campaigns and digital fundraising go hand-in-hand. And at this time of year, we wanted to take a look at some trends, successes and...

Donation Station

Using the Donation Station 'Conversation Starter' feature

What is this feature and how does it work? The Donation Station is purpose-built for the fundraising landscape and seeks to optimise donations...

contactless donation

How safe is the payment data in a Donation Station?

How does the Donation Station handle data security? When it comes to the Donation Station, we're often asked: What happens to the payment data and...

Fundraising

Gift Aid Awareness Day 2022

Promoting Gift Aid to increase the value of charitable donations. Gift Aid Awareness Day this year is October 6th And in our work with charities,...

contactless donation

What is the Donation Station Attract Loop?

What is an 'Attract Loop'? Think about how hard sometimes it is to see signs, or find your way through a place – nothing catches your eye more than a...

Fundraising

Fundraising Insight: donor recruitment in a changing environment

With volunteers and charity workers beginning to face the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, we take a look at the recent trends observed in the...

Fundraising

Secure, adaptable cashless fundraising - the Midi Donation Station by GWD

Choosing the right Donation Station for your needs. Our Midi Donation Station is a popular, adaptable contactless fundraising device. We've...

Donation Station

Heritage event fundraising: Festival of Archaeology

How are Heritage organisations engaging their visitors, and driving donations with events? We thought by speaking with a couple of our customers...

Donation Station

Product update: variable causes and donation amounts

Tailored donation journeys to boost your fundraising income Contents What makes a good cashless fundraising device? What's different about the...

Digital Fundraising

5 Tips for getting more Gift Aid

How to integrate Gift Aid into Fundraising Gift Aid is a 25% boost to your fundraising income. While there are plenty of rules and requirements to...

Donation Station

The psychology of choice and motivation in fundraising

Decision making in fundraising What influences us to give is multi-faceted. Our interests, concerns and demographics, all play their part. However,...

Fundraising

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Donation Station

Getting the most from your Donation Station

How to use the Donation Station features to benefit your fundraising strategy The Donation Station comes with high-performance fundraising features...

Recruitment

Learning At Work Week 2022

This week marks #LearningAtWorkWeek2022 and by way of marking this ‘festival of workplace learning’ we wanted to ask some of our newer team members...

Donation Station

[PR] GWD helps charities raise £1 million through its contactless technology Donation Stations.

Pioneering unmanned donation devices beyond a single transaction journey, charities and socially-minded organisations benefit from touch-screen...

Fundraising

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Heritage

Levelling Up and Heritage Sector Funding

Working with the Heritage sector means understanding the challenges being faced by organisations, charities and employers that represent it across...

Digital Fundraising

The Skinny Donation Station: a portable free-standing fundraising tool

What's a Skinny Donation Station? This is our slim and portable contactless fundraising device, fit for modern events as much as traditional venues,...

Fundraising

We are Hiring!

IT Project Manager *EDIT* We have now filled this position. Our Culture We are a creative, ambitious, tight-knit tech business, where team...

Donation Station

2022: The year of Hybrid Fundraising

What does the year ahead look like for your charity? 2022 is ahead of us, despite uncertainties, there's plenty of opportunity to plan fundraising...

Donation Station

Digital Giving for churches: an opportunity for growth

In 2021, our Donation Station was chosen, along with other devices to help pilot a study into contactless and digital giving at the Church of...

Donation Stations

How to integrate Gift Aid into fundraising using the Donation Station

The Donation Station by GWD is designed to integrate Gift Aid into your digital fundraising activities. Gift Aid is a valuable additional funding...

Fundraising

Why is The Church of England going contactless? An interview on BBC Radio Cumbria

GWD is part of the pilot scheme trialling the use of digital giving devices in Carlisle Diocese churches, supplying Donation Stations to churches in...

contactless donation

Digital giving at Church of England

We've recently been supporting the Carlisle Diocese of the Church of England with a pilot scheme aimed at rolling out digital giving devices across...

A Guide for charities

Gift Aid: a guide for charities

This article focuses on how digital giving devices can streamline the Gift Aid donation process, raising vital fundraising income for charities. ...

Donation Station

Digital Fundraising for Charities: using contactless for better supporter relationships

Interactive digital donation devices and how they help charities fundraise better. We’ve all seen a change in how we pay for goods and services....

contactless donation

Reopen culture with conscious fundraising.

Donation Stations by GWD for arts and culture organisations. Sometimes an awkward subject, fundraising shouldn’t be a dirty word for anyone. As we...

Fundraising

Culture Recovery Fund grants can be used for Donation Stations

Did you know, Culture Recovery Fund grants can be used for Donation Stations right now? Round 1 of the Culture Recovery Fund has to be spent by...

Fundraising

A Look Back On The Best Digital Fundraising Campaigns Of 2020

2020 was a year that presented charities and fundraisers with serious challenges as limiting physical contact, social distancing, and lockdowns...

Festive Fundraising

Why charitable gifts are a growing trend

Many people are becoming tired of the practice of swapping unwanted Christmas gifts. Maybe you have found yourself in this group of people who are...

Fundraising

Donation Station Competition Winners

Because 2020 has been such a difficult year, it seemed appropriate to give something back to support the charities and non-profit organisations that...

Fundraising

Festive Fundraising

The season of giving is upon us, and we are in the peak time for festive fundraising. It is time to consider the impact that the COVID virus will...

Fundraising

Supporting Charities with Virtual Fundraising Ideas

Unquestionably, virtual fundraising ideas and online charity events have been gaining popularity over recent years as people embrace...

IoT

Internet of Things – The Implications for Retailers

Internet of Things Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of connected physical objects that have sensors embedded in them. These devices communicate...

Retail Technology

Self-Service Ordering Kiosks in High Demand.

A recent survey carried out by Tillster/SSI has shown that there is a growing demand for self-service ordering kiosks in quick service and fast...

Retail Technology

65% of Shoppers Are Attracted to Stores with Touchscreen Devices

New research carried out by Barclays has indicated that touchscreen devices are the technology that is most likely to make consumers want to visit a...

Retail Technology

Blockchain is Ready to “revolutionise” Retail – Deloitte Report

Consultancy firm Deloitte has published a new report, that explores the potential for blockchain technology to achieve mainstream adoption in retail...

Retail Technology

H&M Brand Monki Begin Testing Augmented Reality Tech In-Store.

The H&M Group have announced that they have partnered with HoloMe, in a venture that sees augmented reality technology being utilised in its...

IoT

Contactless Payments and SCA (Strong Customer Authentication)

For many people the introduction of SCA in September 2019 was only noticed when contactless transactions would start to mysteriously be declined,...

Charitable gifts

How To Sustain Your Fundraising Momentum After Christmas

Christmas is fast approaching, which is a crucial time for people in the third-sector, as reports show that November and December are the biggest...

IoT

GWD are ESPO Framework Approved to Provide RFID Library Solutions

Great news! We have been listed as an official supplier in the ESPO - Public Sector Procurement Library Solutions and Systems framework 350 to supply...

Discovery Station

Our CEO celebrates 10K SB graduation at Oxford University

Congratulations to our CEO and Director Marek Narkiewicz on graduating from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme. The intensive 10K SB...

Discovery Station

Coronavirus – GWD are still open for business

We’ve had some queries from clients about the developing Coronavirus situation and how it may affect our ability to provide products and services....

IoT

Online Giving Service / Coronavirus Fundraising Tool

In response to the difficult circumstances our friends and customers are facing, and during a time where face-to-face fundraising cannot take place,...

GWD Blog

5 Digital Fundraising Barriers and How to Overcome them

What is the Digital Skills Gap?

Benefits of Corporate Partnerships: for Charities and Businesses

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