TotalGiving

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TotalGiving is a UK online fundraising platform for charitable causes, operated by Raise Your Profile Ltd. It hosts fundraising, appeal, and sponsorship pages for UK registered charities and the individuals raising money for them, and markets itself for charity crowdfunding. Its central promise is that money raised is transferred directly to the charity.

The platform's distinguishing design is that it routes donations straight to the recipient charity rather than holding or processing the funds itself, which it presents as a guarantee that the charity receives its donations. Because of this model, a charity needs its own means of collecting the payment, and the platform does not appear to provide pooled escrow or settlement. Gift Aid is supported and approved by HMRC, with the checkout collecting the supporter details required to claim it.

TotalGiving's strength is its direct-to-charity positioning and a broad, searchable directory of thousands of UK registered charities, with support for one-off and recurring donations and no account required to give. The trade-offs are transparency and breadth: the site publishes little about the operating company, payment-processing costs to charities are not stated on its own pages, Apple Pay and Google Pay are absent from the listed methods, and the interface is English-only. For UK charities and donors comfortable with that it serves its purpose; those wanting fuller disclosure or modern wallets may look elsewhere.

Donations can be made with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, and Direct Debit, and donors may give in around 140 currencies, which are converted to GBP before reaching the charity. The platform does not state where it stores personal data beyond noting that analytics data may be processed in the United States, and it points users to the UK Information Commissioner's Office for data-protection complaints.