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If you love using your smartphone, you’ll be happy to know we’ve made donating through it much easier.

A lot more of you are using your mobile phones to donate – by 2014 we think around 70% of you will be using your smartphones to give to your favourite charity.

With this in mind, we’ve simplified our mobile donation process. Now if you save your donation preferences, the next time you donate you can do it with just one touch of your mobile phone. Here’s what Fundraising UK Ltd had to say about our one-touch mobile giving

And if you’re in the UK, we’ll also remember your Gift Aid preferences, making it much simpler to claim Gift Aid on your donations.

Lee Marshall, one of our product managers, explains:

‘The way that people give is changing – more than ever, people want to give wherever and whenever they want, on any device. We’ve looked hard at our donation process and have developed what we believe is the world’s fastest, easiest and smartest way to give to charity.’

Find out more about why we think your little mobile phone is so important and what we’re doing to make using JustGiving on your mobile even easier

There are lots of great cycling events taking place all over the world in the next few months. With so many of you gearing up for a two-wheel challenge, we asked the regular riders among you to share your top tips.

Our Facebook and Twitter timelines were quickly filled with cycling words of wisdom, so thank you to everyone who shared such great advice.

For all of you taking on a cycling challenge, here are our favourite tips.

Training

Dyll Davies – Train hard but make sure you rest at least two to three days a week. Vary your training using something like British Cycling guides, mixing short sharp sessions (e.g. hill repeats) with longer ‘base mile’ rides. If the route you are cycling has hills – and even if it doesn’t! – makes sure you ride up hills in training. And finally build in two to three week taper period at the end of your training where you wind down the intensity to rest you body before your event

Mike Bundy – Mix your training up with speed work, distance and interval training. But tailor it to the event your doing so you don’t get caught out i.e on a steep climb or fast flat sprint.

Nutrition

Sally McSorley – My best advice is nutrition is as important as the training itself, especially when regularly doing long distances. Up your protein intake.

Team work

Mark Baxter – I’m cycling 400 miles from my front door to Paris in July. I’m part of a team and we take it in turns to lead the group – one mile leading and five miles off (there are six of us). We stay tight together and shout okay, slow down or faster. You’ll easy put 2-3 mph on your average speed.

@shudziak5 – Definitely arrange to go on some long rides in a group, it’s safer.

‏@goose1015 – Try to ride with others – It makes distance rides so much more fun. Also ride in all weathers to get used to it.

Preparation

@TAMorris14 – Learn to fix a puncture, take spare inner tubes, have extra layers, water and snacks.

Finally, one thing was undeniable…

Reg Patterson – Padded shorts are a must have.

Steve Dudfield – Main advice would be to get a good pair of shorts!

‏@IanYorath5 – Padded shorts!!!

Good luck to everyone taking on a charity bike ride!

Monday 10th June marks the beginning of Carers Week, an annual awareness campaign that celebrates the 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK. It recognises the contribution they make to those they care for and to their communities.

Carers Week 2013 is a partnership of seven UK Charities. If you’d like to show your support by making a donation, or by setting up a regular Direct Debit to one of the charities, here’s a list of who’s involved:

Age UK
Carers Trust
Carers UK
Macmillan Cancer Support
Marie Curie Cancer Care
MS Society
Parkinson’s UK

The week is also being supported by:
Independent Age
The Stroke Association
Carewell

We’re delighted to announce here at Marceloiniarra.com that we recently made the decision to open a UK branch of the consultancy in London!!

My long-term colleague at Marceloiniarra.com, Ashley Baldwin, will be based in London full-time and is ready to discuss innovation in your organisation.

Over the last few years, we’ve developed some pretty exciting, and effective, products and campaigns for a wide range of clients, including Greenpeace, UNICEF, Medecins sans Frontieres and the Amnesty IS, amongst others.

Its time for some fresh ideas in a saturated European market. And with our worldwide experience and limitless bounds of thinking, we’re here to help you develop them.

If you’d like to find out more about our work in London or would like to set up a meeting with Ashley, feel free to drop me a line! Alternatively, you can contact Ashley directly at ashley@marceloiniarra.com

We’re all very excited here at JustGiving – and with good reason too! The JustGiving platform is now open to charities in Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates, making the opportunity to give on JustGiving bigger than ever.

Fundraising on JustGiving

As well as the 12,000 UK registered charities, you can now find and support charities in:

• Australia
• Hong Kong
• Ireland
• United Arab Emirates

Once you’ve found the charity you’d like to support, it’s quick and easy to set up a page and start making a difference.

We have all the different tools you need to tell your story and spread the word about your fundraising.

It’s really easy for your supporters too – people can donate from all over the world and there is an option to donate in various currencies including Australian Dollars, Hong Kong Dollars, Euros, and UAE Dirham.

Watch this video to find out more about your JustGiving page -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrASq_gKbE

Absolutely! Whether your charity is starting out in online fundraising or you’re an experienced digital guru, becoming a member of JustGiving gives you access to the largest giving portal in the world.

Find out more about what’s possible with JustGiving and how to join

At the moment, we’re only able to sign up charities based in a selection of countries. However, we’re always looking to move into new countries, so we’d really appreciate you registering your charity’s details with us. If JustGiving becomes available in your country, you’ll be the first to know!

Register your interest in joining JustGiving

A big thanks to all of you who’ve donated over £23,000 through JustGiving to the Disaster Emergency Committee’s Syria appeal.

The appeal’s now raised over £14 million in total – please donate to support over three million people fleeing their homes who are in desperate need of food, shelter and medical care.

The money raised is helping people like Hassan, who had to flee Syria to Jordan after a bomb landed next to his neighbour’s house. A fragment of shrapnel four inches long had passed through the wall of his house and hit him.

The infection damage means he’ll never walk again. He needs another operation to re-join his severed leg bones – but the £2,600 operation cost is beyond the Jordanian health service which is stretched to breaking point.

Please donate to the DEC Syria appeal to help Hassan and many others like him.