Presentation delivered at IoF Fundraising Convention, July 2017
Have mass participation events reached saturation point? Has the humble 5km really had its day? Who raises more? Men vs women, runners vs cyclists, young vs old, north vs south? In this session, we’ll deep dive in to the trends we’ve seen on JustGiving over the last decade and examine the emerging ones. We’ll look at which events in your portfolio are likely to drive the most fundraising income, which ones are slowing down and which ones are growing fast!
4. How we crunched the numbers
When someone sets up a Fundraising Page on JustGiving, they tell us what they’re
doing their fundraising for:
If they select ‘an organised event’ or ‘personal challenge’, they can choose from a list
of events that have been categorised under the following:
running/marathons walks triathlons treks swimming cycling parachuting/skydives
We class this as ‘event fundraising’.
5. The events market is maturing, but still growing
2012 2016
106%
growth
6. Running still dominates
Data represents ‘event fundraising’ pages (as of 20 June 2017)
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
400,000
450,000
500,000
Parachuting &
skydives
Triathlons Swimming Treks Cycling Walks Running /
marathons
Pages created per event type
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
7. But other events are growing in popularity
2011 vs 2016
1% 1%
2%
4%
9%
17%
64%
1%
1%
1%
2%
6%
9%
79%
8. And the money they raise
257%
237%
183%
161%
145%
77%
67%
0%
50%
100%
150%
200%
250%
300%
Walks Swimming Cycling Treks Parachuting &
skydives
Triathlons Running / marathons
Event fundraising growth per category 2016 vs 2011 (£ raised)
12. The battle of the sexes
• Women, as a group,
raise more for event
fundraising
• As more of them
actively fundraise
• BUT, men on
average raise more
per person for event
fundraising
64. I’ve got to
train and
fundraise
I didn’t get a
ballot place
I’m so
inspired by
the runners
I got a
charity place I did it!
65.
66. LEARNINGS:
Engagement leads to action (drove 4,222 visits to JG.com)
Dual audience content makes it more shareable
Complicated to build and re-purpose