For people
Keep your kindness in one place.
Track donations, volunteering, rota dates, saved charities and the impact reports organisations publish back to you.
Verified local charities, one friendly place
Find your next good thing.
Discover trusted organisations around York, see what they have been doing lately, join a volunteer shift and keep your giving and time in one simple account.
Registered charity details
Official domains and donation routes
Charity-published updates
Happening soon
Good things with a date
Local charity events, seasonal campaigns and community moments.
From the charities
What has happened lately
Public posts from verified charities, with links back to their own social channels where they choose to connect them.
Campaign spotlight
Support something happening now
Browse verified causes
Who do you want to help?
For charities
Your public community hub.
Claim and verify your charity, publish posts, campaigns, events and volunteer shifts, then report back to supporters.
York charity calendar
What's on around York?
Seasonal campaigns, community events and charity moments with clear routes to the organiser, Google Calendar and Google Maps.
Upcoming events
Dates are shown from the charity's published information or their United Cause account.
Campaign wall
Time-sensitive fundraising
Volunteer matchmaker and rota
Your time can do a lot.
Find roles that fit your skills, join bookable shifts and bring existing volunteering into one accessible calendar.
Find a place to help
Describe what you enjoy doing. We'll filter the published opportunities without hiding the full list.
Bookable rota
Volunteer shifts
Opportunities
Explore volunteering
Public charity updates
See the work, not just the appeal.
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.
Your year of good
One report. All your impact.
Donations, volunteer hours, charities supported and the updates those organisations publish back to you.
From charities you support
What your support is doing
Charity Studio
Run your public presence and volunteer programme.
Verification comes first. After approval, charities can publish posts, campaigns, events, opportunities, shifts and impact reports from reusable modules.
What are we?
A simpler way to take part in your community.
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.
Find something real
Browse verified charity identities, official websites, campaigns, events, volunteer opportunities and public updates.
Take part your way
Volunteer, book an event, save a cause, follow an official fundraiser or use an enabled United Cause checkout.
Keep it organised
Your account can hold volunteering rota dates, tickets, giving plans, donation history and calendar feeds in one place.
See what happened
Charities can publish updates and impact reports so supporters can see the work behind the appeal.
For people
Free to join and easy to leave.
Members can export their data, manage or cancel giving plans, control privacy and accessibility settings, and delete their account from the Account Centre.
For charities
A reusable public community hub.
Verified charities can publish opportunities, rota shifts, events, tickets, campaigns, posts and impact reports without paying a monthly subscription.
Trust by design
United Cause should make verification easier to see, not harder to understand.
Verified identity
Published charities keep their registered number and official domain visible.
Transparent fees
External charity links have no United Cause fee. Any enabled integrated checkout shows its fee before payment.
Charity-owned work
Posts, events and impact reports identify the charity that published them and can link back to official channels.
Your controls
Privacy, accessibility, data export and account deletion live in the member Account Centre.
Transparent pricing
Free for members. No charity subscription.
United Cause only takes its disclosed platform fee when a donation is actually processed through an enabled United Cause checkout. External charity links remain outside that fee.
1%
platform fee on integrated donations
No member fee, charity signup fee, monthly subscription, volunteer rota fee or fee on an outbound official donation link.
Worked example
£10.00 donation
United Cause platform fee£0.10
Before provider processing£9.90
Payment-provider processing costs, if any, are separate and displayed by the live checkout configuration.
Privacy & data protection
Your data should be understandable and controllable.
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.
Data we use
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.
Why we use it
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.
Sharing and external services
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.
Your rights and controls
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.
Retention
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.
Platform terms
Simple rules for a trusted community.
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.
Accounts
Use accurate information, keep credentials secure, and do not impersonate another person or charity. Charity publishing and payment tools remain locked until verification.
Donations and plans
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.
Events and tickets
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.
Volunteering and safeguarding
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.
Cookies & external content
Only the essentials by default.
United Cause uses a strictly necessary session cookie for security and login. Optional analytics and external embedded content are controlled separately.
Necessary session cookie
Required for session continuity, CSRF protection and account security. It cannot be disabled while using authenticated features.
Analytics
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.
Google Maps and other external media
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 & trust
Designed to make trust visible.
Security is implemented as shared platform controls rather than page-by-page assumptions.
Account security
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 verification
Charity publishing and payment controls are not unlocked simply because somebody signs up. Claims enter an approval workflow and retain an audit trail.
Payments
Provider credentials stay server-side. United Cause does not store payment-card or Google Pay credentials. Integrated payment activation requires genuine provider onboarding.
Operations
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.
Events & ticketing
Clear tickets, clear organiser responsibility.
United Cause gives verified charities a simple event storefront, inventory, member ticket wallet, check-in tools and provider-backed refunds.
Before you buy
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.
Cancellation and refunds
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.
Your ticket wallet
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.
Volunteering & safeguarding
A rota is not a safeguarding check.
United Cause helps people discover and organise volunteering, while charities remain responsible for suitability, supervision and the legal/safeguarding controls required for each role.
Role information
Charities should state minimum age, skills, location, accessibility information, checks/training and any role restrictions before a member commits.
Safer participation
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.
Reporting
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.
Accessibility
United Cause should work for more people, in more ways.
Our interface targets WCAG 2.2 AA and supports configurable text size, contrast, readable type, reduced motion, reduced transparency and stronger keyboard focus.
Accessibility statement
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.
What you can change
- Text size without losing controls or content.
- High contrast and stronger keyboard focus.
- Reduced animation and reduced transparency.
- A more readable typeface and increased line spacing.
Found a barrier?
Tell us what page you were using and what got in the way. This goes into the platform accessibility queue.
Platform operations
Verification desk
Charity ownership is reviewed before publishing controls are unlocked.