"Guidestar is a great resource.
We find ourselves checking it daily for the Dango Project".
Dango team, Birmingham University
GuideStar UK is fully backed by local, national and international charities
across the UK, as well as organisations including the Audit Commission and the
National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Mark
Cooper, Account Director, Camargue Corporate and B2B Communications
"To help celebrate a client's 30th birthday, we came up with the idea of
partnering with a charity that was also celebrating its 30th anniversary. Not
knowing where to start, a colleague recommended contacting GuideStar. One phone
call was all it took. A few days later, a comprehensive list of charities was
sent by e-mail. The people at GuideStar were extremely friendly and couldn't
have done more to help."
Peter
H.S. Sørensen, Director, Development Ratings
"I wanted to let you know that GuideStar is an invaluable tool for the analysis
that Development Ratings performs and allows us to better find and select the
high impact charities that we recommend."
Hilary
Henriques, Chief Executive, NACOA
"Thank you for providing information about this charity on the site. Like many
small charities we rely entirely on voluntary donations and 'getting our name
out there' is extremely important."
David
Pye, Chair, Vegetarian Society UK
"I have found guidestar to be of immense benefit and the extremely helpful staff
have been able to provide detailed information for me on the size of trustees
boards. Information which would have been very difficult to acquire in any
other way. It really demonstrates the advantages and power of having such a
massive searchable database. I wish the project every success in the future"
Sarah
Bunn, Communications Manager, BREAK
"Very impressed with the simplicity of the site - given the information
contained."
Carol
Monoyios, Director of Marketing, Care International
"GuideStar.org.uk is vital if we are to succeed in getting the public to become
more involved with charities, and give time and money to the organisations they
support. GuideStar.org.uk is free and easy to use and it gives a fair and
objective platform for charities of all sizes to explain their work to the
public. Care International welcomes the launch of this website and, as a
charitable giver, so do I. It is a unique and much-needed way of making the
sector transparent and accessible to the public."
Mike
Hewlett, Information Services Manager, Derbyshire Library Services
"I'll be happy to recommend your site to my colleagues. It's the kind of site
which is so useful in libraries."
Campbell
Robb, Director of Public Policy, National Council for Voluntary Organisations
"GuideStar.org.uk is an extremely valuable resource for the charitable sector
and for the public. This excellent website is promoting access to, and
confidence in, the sector, and is particularly useful for the thousands of
small charities which could not otherwise promote their work online.
GuideStar.org.uk has an important role to play in realising our ambitions for
the sector."
Lindi
Braund, Caseworker to Nick Harvey MP
"We have all had a look at the information and links on there and were really
impressed! It's great to have all that information in one place. Having a point
of reference for people who ask about charities will be very useful."
Kay Bews,
Chief Executive, Home-Start UK
"GuideStar.org.uk is an invaluable and very welcome tool for helping Home-Start
UK to raise funds and to show people the breadth and depth of our work. We have
337 schemes supporting families a cross the country and each works as an
independent charity under the Home Start banner. For the first time,
GuideStar.org.uk lets trusts, companies or individuals choose between
supporting local families through their local scheme or helping schemes across
the UK through the national charity. And they can find detailed and relevant
information on both, in one place."
Mark
Smith, CEO, Nemisys
"Just used your site for the first time - really excellent work. My first test
was to search out my own charity and bingo found it in seconds - our accounts
were in order and my name was correct. I think this is a fantastic effort by
Guidestar - far better than I thought possible with the time and budget I know
you had. Well done to all concerned, stirling work."
Davy
Jones, Head of Area Profiles, The Audit Commission
"GuideStar UK has been a key partner in the Audit Commissions Area Profiles
project, providing valuable guidance, support and data for mapping the capacity
and contribution of the voluntary and community sector."
Nick
Yarwood-Buchanan, Executive PA, Southern Focus Trust
"Just as a bit of feedback ... it's a really impressive site. You've clearly put
a lot of thought into it and it's easily accessible, well laid out and very
useful. I think you've done a great job here."
Jo
Galasso, Project Manager, Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource
"We are a small charity working in West Yorkshire. We are a parent-led support
group for families who have a child with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and our
funds are very limited. What is great about GuideStar UK is it enables us to
raise awareness of our work amongst the public where previously this was not
easily achieved. We are particularly hopeful that GuideStar UK's 'local
charities' search facility will enable us to attract new funders and volunteers
to help out with our youth club, social and leisure activities."
Francis
Routh, Director, Redcliffe Recordings
"Our details are succinctly laid out, and an encyclopaedia of this kind can only
benefit a small Charity such as ours."
Rachel
Butler, Trusts Fundraising Officer, Blue Cross
"GuideStar.org.uk is a fantastic new aid for the Blue Cross' fundraising work. I
have been using GuideStar UK since its launch and it is by far the best, and
most comprehensive, source of useful information on charities' income,
objectives, and activities. The charitable sector has been waiting for this
website for a long time, and I am confident it will be a great help to us all."
Terry
Norwood, Manager, Worcester Shopmobility
"Very impressed with your web site, found it easy to use and quite informative."
Alyrene
Rosser, Degree Student
"I have been using your website for research for my degree since it was launched
last year and find it very useful."
The
Charity Commission
"The Commission considers that the website being developed by GuideStar UK will
promote the efficiency and effectiveness of charities and that it is in the
interests of charities for this information to be widely available."
Dy Brown,
Trustee and Treasurer, Wirral Advanced Motorists
"We like the facility which enables people to visit our website, via yours. It
is another means of contacting us."
Jane
Dalton, Grace and Compassion Benedictines
"We were very pleased indeed to know about GuideStar and to have this
opportunity of promoting our charity through the website you are creating in
partnership with the Charity Commission. It certainly promises to be of great
value to charities and to public as a whole."
If you would like to send us your comments please email
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