Help local groups get online.
Give any amount a month, as a person or a business. Everything goes into one shared pot, and every £20 a month in it funds another community website.
For sponsors
- Any amount you like, monthly
- Listed on Our supporters, or anonymous
- No contract, cancel any time
- A receipt on request
Simple for you, simple to run
You do not need to pick a group, find neighbours to share a bill, or work out who pays what. Give what you like, and it goes as far as it can.
1. Sponsors give
Any amount
From £5 a month, by card through Stripe. Or give a one-off amount.
2. The pot
One shared pot
Every payment goes in. Each week, the amount not yet used is checked.
3. Websites funded
£20 funds a site
Every £20 a month of unused support opens a place for the next group on the list.
See what your amount does
Move the sliders to see how a monthly amount adds up in the pot. Every £20 a month of unused support funds one more community website.
Pick an amount, or slide to any amount
Try four people at £5, or ten at £10.
In the pot each month
£10
That is half of one community website (£20 a month).
£120 over a year.
How the amounts add up (without JavaScript, here are some examples):
- £5 a month is a quarter of a website; four people at £5 fund one
- £10 a month is half; two people at £10 fund one
- £20 a month funds one community website
- £60 a month across several sponsors funds three
An illustration of the arithmetic only. The pot is shared, so your money is not tied to one group, and new places open each week as the pot allows.
Two ways in
Both work the same way. The difference is how you would like to be thanked.
Put your business behind your community
Be listed with your name, logo and a link on Our supporters, and thanked on every website the pot funds.
Sponsor as a business For individualsKeep your community online
Give what you can each month. Be listed by name, by first name only, or stay anonymous.
Sponsor as a personCouncils, grant makers and trusts can fund the pot too, or a particular group's website. See Grants and funders.
How groups are chosen for funding
A list of groups waiting for support is kept and worked through in the open, so you can see how it goes.
01
Community groups first
Village halls, clubs, societies, charities and classes come first. Then community-style businesses, the kind that serve their local area.
02
In the order they applied
Within each of those, groups are generally funded in the order they applied. Every group is told where they are on the list.
03
Weekly, as slots open
Each week the pot is checked. Every £20 a month of unused support opens a place, and groups that pay part need less than £20 from the pot.
You can tell us a preference, such as a type of group or an area, and it will be taken into account. Because the pot is shared, it cannot be promised that your money reaches one particular group. The Our communities page shows which sites are funded.
Credit that is plain and easy to keep accurate
Because sponsors give into a shared pot, credit is shared too. It is simple, accurate and easy to keep up to date.
- Every sponsor is listed on Our supporters, unless they choose to stay anonymous
- Businesses can include a logo and a link, marked as a sponsored link
- Every website the pot funds carries a short thank-you to the community sponsors, linking to that page
Straight answers
It is a sponsorship, not a donation. JW is not a charity, so Gift Aid does not apply. The money pays for websites to be built, hosted and kept up to date, and that work is paid for from it.
Groups stay in control. Sponsors have no say over what a group publishes, and the website belongs to the group.
If the pot shrinks, for example because a sponsor stops, sites that were already funded stay live for three months while the difference is made up. More in the FAQ and the terms.
Paying is simple. A monthly card subscription through Stripe, from £5 a month in £5 steps. Stop at any time and payments stop. Prefer to give once? Any one-off amount goes into the same pot, and once the pot reaches £240 a community website is assigned to it and funded for a year. Give a one-off amount.
Add to the pot
Choose your amount and pay by card. It takes a couple of minutes, and you can stop at any time.
Prefer to talk? WhatsApp 07539 345928 or send a message.