With 900+ providers and 19 search categories, the free Help Finder can find almost anything for free, including company donations to charity, sponsorship for events, and request for raffle prizes and help with fundraising.
Besides company donations to charity, it can find marketing support, free laptops and computers, office and event spaces, office furniture, mentoring and consultancy, gift match and training and lots more. Here's the demo video (2 mins).
It's 1 of 3 finder directories and huge range support we've created to support charities finding the funding and help they need. Funding Finder and Data Finder, plus 100+downloadable funder lists, 40 policies and 8 online health checks.
Quick, simple and very effective. Nearly half our ratings are 10/10.
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I sat and trawled through Help Finder for a couple of hours yesterday and got offers last night and this morning. Almost £800 in goods "in kind" for a garden project we had been struggling to fundraise for. We have another £500 from the Builder Depot post. Ross, Emmaus
Help Finder makes it quick and simple to find the free support your charity needs, including lots of companies and businesses that make donations, and charities that provide support.
I've uploaded lots of companies that make charitable donations and offer charity sponsorship, as well as donating raffle prizes. Quite a few have 100s of UK outlets you can approach and, for many, you just have to complete the online form or send an e mail.
Besides financial donations, many companies and businesses also donate commercial products/services to charities, either free or at a huge discount. Everything from software (such as Microsoft 365) to free use of their events spaces. Others provide pro bono volunteering, such as legal and property, as well as volunteers for fundraising or specialist support you couldn't afford to pay for.
Use the Donations - Funding, Donated Products & Equipment and Volunteering categories to find help for your charity.
There are a surprising number of charities that provide free non profit and charity fundraising support, including quite a few that also make grants to charities. Many are not well known, but you can use the Fundraising Support search category to find them and get free help with your fundraising and funding bids and, maybe, a grant as well.
Help Finder doesn't just find corporate charitable donations and volunteering, but lots more and it's very easy to use.
The first step is to set the geographical parameters you want. The system can search Internationally, UK Wide, for each UK country, major cities and, for England, counties. Select all the geographical settings relevant to your charity to maximise the number of providers it finds for you. If you're in England, don't forget to add your county or city.
There are 19 search categories. There is also a Key Word search option to find specific support. For corporate fundraising - raffle prizes, donations and volunteering, use the search categories in bold below.
Accounting & Finance | Marketing & Communications |
Consultancy & Mentoring | Legal, HR & Compliance |
Data & Data Protection | Media, PR & Campaigning |
Donated Items & Equipment | Minoritised Groups |
Donations - Funding | Property & Venues |
Food | Safeguarding & H&SW |
Fundraising Support | Social Media, Websites & Apps |
Furniture | Software & Hardware |
Imagery & Photos | Support Bodies & Regulators |
Learning & Development | Volunteering & Secondment |
You can use the Key Word search box to find charities and companies that donate and provide other support for charities. Here's a list for women's charities, where I used the search term 'women'. Organisations may use different terminology, so try several search terms. For example, not only environment and environmental but maybe also maybe more specific terms relevant to you, such as climate change or conservation.
You can refine your search results to make sure you find exactly what you want.
When asking for donations from companies, make sure they are aware that UK limited companies and businesses pay less Corporation Tax when they give charitable donations to charity:
Companies can claim tax relief by deducting the value of their donations from their total business profits before they pay tax.
If you provide support to help charities, you can have your details added. For charities and non profits, all we ask is that you add a Charity Excellence link to your website, to help us help even more non profits.
We will also add commercial companies, but unless your product/service is genuinely completely free and of value to charities, you'll be required to make a financial donation to help us deliver more support to charities. We do not include 'free, not free' offers or minor discounts.
To have your organisation added, contact us using ian@charityexcellence.co.uk.
And a huge thank you to Access Group Non Profits who stepped forward to make launching Help Finder possible by donating the funding to build it. Their charity software includes digital advertising, websites, CRM and payment processing solutions, and allows each solution to operate on its own, or as connected part of the full suite. And in addition to making Help Finder possible, they'll also be helping us by using their fundraising expertise to deliver a series of free fundraising webinars.
A registered charity ourselves, we provide 8 online health checks, the huge information hub, Quality Mark and 2 other online directories.
Quick, simple and very effective. Nearly half our ratings are 10/10.
Find Funding, Free Help & Resources - Everything Is Free.
To access help and resources on anything to do with running a charity, including funding, click the AI Bunny icon in the bottom right of your screen and ask it short questions, including key words. Register, then login and the in-system AI Bunny is able to write funding bids and download 30+ charity policy templates as well.
Inevitably, there are a lot of scams, offensive material and misinformation on the Internet and some companies' free offers aren't. We carry out checks as best we can, but our system links charities not only to help but also websites with online lists of links and other databases. This gives you access to an enormous range of funding, resources and help but no organisation, let alone a volunteer run charity, could potentially check and validate everything.
Consequently, in using our system you accept that we cannot take any responsibility for 3rd party content or links and you agree that you will carry out all reasonable checks to keep yourself safe. If any 'free offer' requires you to enter your credit card details, it isn't free and here are 10 tips on how to stay safe online.
In the event you ever come across something that concerns you, please inform us immediately - ian@charityexcellence.co.uk.