Discover charities and community causes across the UK, find opportunities near your city or postcode, volunteer, support campaigns and keep the causes you care about close.
Search by city, postcode area, cause or region. Verified profiles and clearly-labelled demonstration profiles use the same discovery system, so the platform can scale from one city to the whole UK.
Showing all UK discovery profiles.
Use filters, search or location. Demonstration profiles are clearly marked and never presented as verified charities.
Local charity events, seasonal campaigns and community moments.
Public posts from verified charities, with links back to their own social channels where they choose to connect them.
Timely ideas for outreach, fundraising, volunteering and collaboration.
Discovery, supporter updates, volunteers, events, shared fundraisers, impact reporting, seasonal marketing prompts and partnership workflows.
Find local or national causes, propose volunteer days, matched fundraising, skills support, sponsorship or shared community events.
Use the UK setup guide to test the idea, choose the right route, understand trustee responsibilities and build a practical roadmap.
Track donations, volunteering, rota dates, saved charities and the impact reports organisations publish back to you.
Claim and verify your charity, publish posts, campaigns, events and volunteer shifts, then report back to supporters.
Local and national charity events, seasonal campaigns and community moments with clear routes to the organiser, calendar and location details.
Dates are shown from the charity's published information or their United Cause account.
Verified charities can run their own fundraiser or invite other verified charities into one shared campaign, one progress story and one public place to build momentum.
Demo collaborations are clearly labelled. Real fundraisers are published and managed by verified charity accounts.
A verified charity sets the goal, story, dates and campaign colour.
Partner charities accept the invitation from Charity Studio before their name is shown publicly.
Participants can point supporters to one progress page while keeping each charity identity visible.
Find roles that fit your skills, join bookable shifts and bring existing volunteering into one accessible calendar.
Describe what you enjoy doing. We'll filter the published opportunities without hiding the full list.
Verified charities can post what they have done lately and link each update to an official social post or profile. You do not need an account to read this feed.
Donations, volunteer hours, charities supported and the updates those organisations publish back to you.
United Cause gives verified charities one public home for discovery, donations, volunteering, events, updates and supporter reporting — with no monthly subscription.
Keep campaigns, public updates, events and social links in one reusable profile instead of rebuilding the same information across disconnected tools.
Offer official donation routes, optional United Cause checkout, campaign links and member-managed giving plans while showing fees clearly.
Publish roles and real shifts, manage capacity, give volunteers one rota and let them add confirmed activity to their calendar.
Plan shared campaigns and group events so organisations can combine audiences, divide responsibilities and raise awareness together.
The publishing controls unlock only after the organisation claim has been verified.
Use the organisation's real details, registered charity number, official website and an organisation-controlled email address.
United Cause reviews the claim before letting the account publish or configure payment receiving details.
Add cover imagery, official social channels, donation routes, volunteer roles, events, campaigns and recent work.
Members can donate, join shifts, book events, save the charity, follow updates and manage planned giving from one account.
Publish impact reports and updates so supporters can see what happened after they gave time or money.
Group events are designed for charities that want to work together instead of competing for attention. A lead organiser can build the event, invite partner charities and present one public event page with every participating organisation clearly identified.
There is no monthly subscription. United Cause only charges the disclosed proportional platform fee on donations actually processed through an enabled United Cause checkout. External donation links remain outside that fee.
An interactive planning guide for deciding whether a charity is the right structure, understanding the core responsibilities and building a practical setup roadmap. Rules differ across UK jurisdictions, so every route links back to the relevant official regulator.
A charity is powerful when the purpose is charitable and for public benefit, there is a real need, and trustees can govern it independently. It is not always the simplest route.
This is a planning comparison, not a recommendation. The available structures and terminology vary by jurisdiction.
Save this checklist in your browser while you work through it. Each step links to the official source you should verify before proceeding.
Keep governing documents, trustee decisions, conflicts, financial records, annual reporting and regulator details organised.
Use the current Code of Fundraising Practice, be clear about who is fundraising, protect donors and document third-party relationships.
Fundraising Regulator codePlan privacy, lawful bases, supporter preferences, direct marketing, security and retention before collecting supporter information.
ICO direct marketing guidanceDefine roles, supervision, reporting routes, safer recruitment where relevant and accessible ways for volunteers and beneficiaries to raise concerns.
Build a useful content calendar around the cause: explain need, show action, invite participation, report outcomes and respect supporter preferences.
Schedule regular trustee reviews of risks, finances, safeguarding, data handling, fundraising partnerships and whether activities still serve the charitable purposes.
The platform guide is deliberately conservative and points outward for filing requirements, thresholds and jurisdiction-specific rules.
Charities publish what they actually need. Businesses publish what they can genuinely offer. Members can discover where their time and skills fit. Every listing keeps the organisation behind it visible.
Your skills, location and availability stay private. United Cause uses them to suggest opportunities to you rather than publishing a searchable volunteer profile.
Ask for people, professional skills, venues, equipment, materials, logistics or funding from Charity Studio.
Publish a funding call, staff volunteering capacity, skills clinic or in-kind offer and let relevant charities respond.
Choose the causes you care about, skills you can share and when you are usually available. United Cause uses this privately to bring relevant opportunities to you.
Find organisations that match your priorities, publish grants and in-kind support, offer employee volunteering or professional skills, and keep a clear record of the impact your programme creates.
Match by cause, geography, charity need, employee skills and seasonal priorities instead of relying on cold outreach.
Publish skills, staff time, venues, equipment, logistics, media reach and surplus resources alongside funding.
Keep offers, funding calls, proposals and accepted partnerships in one workspace with charity consent built into the flow.
Build impact reporting from what charities confirm happened, with transparent attribution and no private supporter-data marketplace.
Demo businesses are auto-approved for testing. In live mode, publishing to the Exchange is verification-gated.
Use the lightweight matcher below before creating a full workspace.
The charity decides what support is useful and what public claims can be made.
Who provides money, staff time, goods or promotion remains visible.
No cold access to private charity or supporter data. Connections are explicitly accepted.
Partnership reporting separates what was offered, what was accepted and what the charity confirms happened.
Verification comes first. After approval, charities can publish posts, campaigns, events, opportunities, shifts and impact reports from reusable modules.
United Cause brings verified charities, volunteering, events, public updates and transparent giving into one friendly place. It is designed to help people discover real organisations without replacing the charity itself.
Browse verified charity identities, official websites, campaigns, events, volunteer opportunities and public updates.
Volunteer, book an event, save a cause, follow an official fundraiser or use an enabled United Cause checkout.
Your account can hold volunteering rota dates, tickets, giving plans, donation history and calendar feeds in one place.
Charities can publish updates and impact reports so supporters can see the work behind the appeal.
Members can export their data, manage or cancel giving plans, control privacy and accessibility settings, and delete their account from the Account Centre.
Every verified charity gets a useful free Studio. Optional Pro and Teams plans add time-saving campaign, governance, analytics and integration tools.
Published charities keep their registered number and official domain visible.
External charity links have no United Cause fee. Any enabled integrated checkout shows its fee before payment.
Posts, events and impact reports identify the charity that published them and can link back to official channels.
Privacy, accessibility, data export and account deletion live in the member Account Centre.
The v0.6 commercial model moves United Cause away from relying on a percentage of donations. Core charity participation, volunteering and member accounts remain free; paid plans add operational and enterprise capabilities.
Payment processors can still charge their own unavoidable costs.
Sponsored placements must be labelled and remain separate from organic matching.
Member skills/location profiles stay private and are used to return matches to the member.
Advanced CRM, campaigns, governance, reporting, integrations and enterprise programmes fund the platform.
This public notice explains the information United Cause uses, why it is used, and the controls available in your account. The deployer must replace the operator placeholders with its legal details before public launch.
Account details, charity relationships, saved causes, volunteering bookings and attendance, donation and ticket records, accessibility preferences, security events, and information you choose to publish or send to United Cause. Payment card or wallet credentials are handled by the payment provider and are not stored by United Cause.
To provide accounts and requested services, prevent fraud, run charity verification, deliver events and tickets, maintain volunteering rotas, record donations and impact, protect the service, and meet legal/accounting obligations where they apply. The production operator must document the lawful basis for each processing purpose in the included ROPA and DPIA templates.
Information is shared only where necessary to provide a feature you choose, such as payment processing or loading Google Maps. Embedded external content is consent-controlled. Charities receive information needed to manage their own event tickets or volunteer bookings; they should not receive unrelated account data.
The account workspace includes machine-readable export, preference controls, giving-plan management and account deletion. Other rights requests can be handled by the production operator through the contact details published in the final Privacy Notice.
United Cause is designed to remove or anonymise member profile data when an account is deleted while preserving transaction or audit records only where the operator has a documented legal need to retain them. Exact live retention periods must be configured and documented before launch.
United Cause connects people and verified charities. It is not a substitute for a charity's own safeguarding, event-safety, tax, employment or professional responsibilities.
Use accurate information, keep credentials secure, and do not impersonate another person or charity. Charity publishing and payment tools remain locked until verification.
Integrated donations are processed by the configured payment provider. United Cause clearly displays its platform fee before integrated donation checkout. External charity links are outside United Cause checkout and have no United Cause platform fee. Managed giving plans can be paused or cancelled from the member account.
Each charity remains the organiser and seller for its own event unless the final operator's terms state otherwise. Event details, cancellation terms, accessibility arrangements and refund rules must be made clear before sale. Ticket records remain available in the member wallet.
A booking is not a substitute for role-specific checks, training, supervision, DBS processes or safeguarding procedures. Charities remain responsible for deciding who can perform a role and for safe delivery.
United Cause uses a strictly necessary session cookie for security and login. Optional analytics and external embedded content are controlled separately.
Required for session continuity, CSRF protection and account security. It cannot be disabled while using authenticated features.
Disabled by default in this build. If analytics are added later, they must respect the preference stored here and the production cookie notice must identify the actual provider, purpose and lifetime.
Interactive maps are not loaded until the user chooses to load them or enables external media in privacy preferences. Loading an external service can send the user's IP address and browser information to that provider.
Security is implemented as shared platform controls rather than page-by-page assumptions.
PBKDF2 password hashing, server-side sessions, CSRF protection, secure cookie options, optional authenticator-app MFA, login security events and session invalidation after password changes.
Charity publishing and payment controls are not unlocked simply because somebody signs up. Claims enter an approval workflow and retain an audit trail.
Provider credentials stay server-side. United Cause does not store payment-card or Google Pay credentials. Integrated payment activation requires genuine provider onboarding.
Trusted-host enforcement, CSP/security headers, bounded uploads, SQLite WAL, per-request database connections, audit records, backups and incident-response procedures are documented in the deployment bundle.
United Cause gives verified charities a simple event storefront, inventory, member ticket wallet, check-in tools and provider-backed refunds.
The event page should show the organiser, date/time, location, ticket type, price and any organiser-specific cancellation or accessibility information. United Cause charges no platform fee on ticket value in this build; provider processing charges may apply to the charity.
Refund rights depend on the circumstances and organiser terms. Verified charity staff can refund completed provider-paid orders from Charity Studio where supported. United Cause retains an audit record of the refund status.
Completed tickets are stored in the member account with a unique ticket code. Event staff can check the code in once; reused or voided tickets are rejected.
United Cause helps people discover and organise volunteering, while charities remain responsible for suitability, supervision and the legal/safeguarding controls required for each role.
Charities should state minimum age, skills, location, accessibility information, checks/training and any role restrictions before a member commits.
Never use United Cause booking status as evidence that a volunteer has been vetted for regulated or sensitive activity. Charities must run their own checks and safeguarding process where required.
Safeguarding concerns should be routed to the charity's safeguarding lead and, where appropriate, emergency services or statutory authorities. The production operator must publish its own escalation contact and process.
Our interface targets WCAG 2.2 AA and supports configurable text size, contrast, readable type, reduced motion, reduced transparency and stronger keyboard focus.
We design the shared interface components so keyboard, screen-reader, zoom, high-contrast and reduced-motion behaviour is fixed once and inherited across the platform. We are not claiming independent accessibility certification.
Tell us what page you were using and what got in the way. This goes into the platform accessibility queue.
Charity ownership is reviewed before publishing controls are unlocked.