“I spent 18 years fundraising and running charities. I couldn't find the tools we needed — so I built them.”
Luke Wilkinson
Founder
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100+
Charities already raising their game with Raiser
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£240,000
Biggest grant won so far using the Raiser approach
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What it costs your charity to use Raiser. Now and always.
Keeping the lights on is harder than ever.
If your charity relies on grants, you already know the drill.
You spend weeks on an application. You cut your work down to fit a word count that makes no sense. You answer the same questions you answered for the last funder — and the one before that. You wait months for a decision. And more often than not, you get a no.
Here’s what nobody tells you: small charities spend 38% of their grant income just on the process of applying for it. Not on the work. On the paperwork.
That’s not a funding shortage. That’s a broken system.
There’s a better way to raise money. And it starts with your story.
Raiser gives your charity one place to do everything:
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Tell your story once.
Build your Impact Story™ — a clear, living record of what you do, who you help, and the difference you make. Your Impact Story™ gets richer every time you update it, and it works for you across every bid, report, and funding conversation you’ll ever have.
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Manage your pipeline without the chaos.
Keep track of every grant you’re pursuing. Log funders, set deadlines, track your applications. Never miss a deadline again.
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Write better bids, faster.
Our built-in writing support knows your charity inside out — your people, your projects, your outcomes. So when a deadline lands, you’re not starting from scratch.
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And in the meantime, we’re building something bigger.
As more charities and funders join Raiser, we’re building a world where funders come to you — where your Impact Story™ speaks for itself and the application form becomes a thing of the past. Every charity that joins us is helping make that happen.
Getting started takes about 20 minutes.
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Tell us about your charity
Answer a few questions about your work, your people, and the communities you serve. We’ll help you shape it into a razor-sharp Impact Story™.
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Set up your pipeline
Add the grants you’re going for. Plug in any funder — if they’re already in our database, we’ll find them; if not, you can add them and help other charities find them too.
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Start raising
Use your Impact Story™ to power better bids, hit deadlines with confidence, and start building the foundation for a future where funders find you.
Charities already raising more with Raiser
£5,000
Raised from a local funder
“I didn't think I could get a bid in on time, but Raiser made it possible. Having all of our previous material in one place, plus the fundraising expertise baked in, meant we could quickly and simply put our request to the funder — and it worked!”
Mark Hornsey, Co-Artistic Director, Babbling Vagabonds
£240,000
Core grant over two years
“We're now seeing a massive increase in our capacity to win funding. We're celebrating a big win recently — a £240,000 core grant award over 2 years, written using the Raiser approach.”
Simon Wallwork, CEO, Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust
£10,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund
“We used Raiser to help bring together the school, the church, and the PTA for a project marking the school's 150th anniversary. We ended up securing £10,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.”
PTA Member (name changed for privacy), Primary School PTA
Even the funders think the old way is broken.
“As a trust-based funder and champion of grassroots and small charities, I feel frustrated by the funder-fuelled norms of application processes and impact reporting. Raiser is a much needed leveller and has the potential to reform an inequitable system that gets in the way of facilitating brilliant, impactful work.”
Kate Symondson
The Symondson Foundation
This isn’t a tech company that discovered charity.
Raiser was built by two people who have spent their careers inside this sector — on different sides of the same broken problem.
“Every other solution I've seen optimises a broken process. We're replacing the infrastructure underneath it.”
Beckie Denny
Co-founder
We’re not neutral observers. We’re participants. We’ve been there.
And we’re not leaving until it’s fixed.
Other fundraising tools want your money. We want our sector to thrive.
Most grant-writing software costs hundreds of pounds a year. Some charge per bid. Some are propped up by the same AI hype cycle that’s made the whole system worse for everyone.
We’ve chosen a different path.
Raiser is completely free for charities. No trial. No card. No small print.
We make money when funders use our platform to give — which means our incentives are exactly where they should be: getting more money to charities doing great work.
Here’s what you get, free, from day one:
- Your full Impact Story™ — unlimited
- Grant pipeline and deadline tracking — unlimited
- Built-in writing support for bids and reports
- Access to our community funder database (and the ability to add to it)
- Updates, improvements, and new features as we build them
Questions we get a lot
Is this actually free? What's the catch?
No catch. Raiser is free for charities because we believe the burden of fundraising admin should shift off your shoulders. We're paid by the funders using our platform to find and fund high impact causes like yours!
I'm not very tech-savvy. Will I be able to use this?
If you can write an email, you can use Raiser. And if you get stuck, we're here.
We're a very small charity — a few volunteers and no staff. Is this for us?
Absolutely. In fact, you're exactly who we built this for.
What about my data?
Your Impact Story™ belongs to you. We use privacy-first infrastructure. You choose who gets to see what and when.
I'm nervous about AI tools — do I have to use any AI features?
You're always in control of what gets drafted and what gets submitted. Think of our writing support like having a knowledgeable colleague sitting next to you — one that knows your charity's story and helps you find the right words, but never puts words in your mouth without your say-so.
Still have questions? Email us at hello@raiser.uk — we actually reply.
Join the Raiserlution.
Small charities change the world every single day — in housing estates, scout huts, community halls, and places of worship up and down the country. They do it with passion, with volunteers, and with very little thanks.
The least we can do is make the money part easier.
Create your free account and become part of the movement to make funding fairer, faster, and less full of forms.