Raise Your Hands

Who we are

We believe that small charities are specialists particularly well suited to helping children. They’re well positioned in communities to understand challenges faced, to help those young people that are hardest to reach. These charities are the hidden gems; the unsung heroes you wouldn’t come across otherwise.

We’ve helped improve the lives of 538,679 children and young people since 2015 and we're working to reach 1m by 2030.

We fundraise on behalf of the small charities on our platform, targeting donors that would normally be out of their reach. We do this by innovating in the fundraising space with a particular focus on corporate partnerships and pioneering events.

Our culture and values

Raise Your Hands holds a unique position relative to much of the charity sector. Unlike many grant makers, we are actively fundraising ourselves. We don’t want to cannibalise other small charities’ income. This means seeking out new fundraising seams to mine.

This means that we think creatively and the onus is on us to think outside of the remit of conventional fundraising stereotypes. To that end, we’ve recently launched an innovation framework which means an exciting pipeline of new fundraising ideas. 

When it comes to donors, we work a lot with corporates, in particular in the finance sector, and we aim to produce communications that cut through and offer a fresh voice in this space.