Charity Hive, the award-winning, fast-growing, all-in-one digital fundraising platform, has been named Best Digital Fundraising & Donations Platform 2025 at the Southern Enterprise Awards 2025. The judging team highlighted Charity Hive's innovation, ease of use and industry-leading feature set.
Charity Hive is a digital fundraising platform serving charities, community interest companies, sports clubs, and school PTAs. With no monthly or setup fees and a “pay only when you earn” business model, Charity Hive delivers event and donation management, crowdfunding tools, auctions, raffles, online shops, memberships, course booking, powerful CMS, donor communications and analytics – all delivered in a flexible interface optimized for both mobile and desktop
Charity Hive was created to address a fundamental issue faced by charities: paying fixed subscription fees even in months with little or no fundraising income. Driven by a “you only pay when you earn” ethos, designed to minimise costs and maximise impact, Charity Hive introduced a truly fair pricing model: no setup or monthly fees, with just a 2% transaction fee on donations and 4 % on other fundraising activities.
Offering a richly featured platform under two flexible templates – Core and Honeycomb – Charity Hive empowers users to run fundraising events, sell tickets, merchandise, hold raffles and auctions, enable in-memory tributes, launch crowdfunding campaigns, manage memberships and even run courses. All of this is backed by a robust CMS, donor-profiling, communications tools, reporting, and admin suite, all delivered via a fast, secure, UK-based cloud system that is GDPR compliant
Dan Bream, Founder of Charity Hive, commented on the milestone: “We are incredibly proud to be named Best Digital Fundraising & Donations Platform 2025. This award validates our vision of empowering charities with a feature-rich, cost-transparent platform that truly puts them – and their supporters – first.”
Looking back over the past six years, it’s remarkable to see how far the company has come. What started as a simple idea to remove unnecessary subscription fees has grown into a comprehensive fundraising and engagement platform trusted by hundreds of organisations across the UK. The business has continually developed new features to meet the real needs of charities, schools, and community groups.
A great example of this is its Honeycomb template, which not only gives charities all of these fundraising tools but also provides them with a free website and hosting – removing yet another barrier for smaller organisations that don’t have the budget or technical expertise to manage their own site. Dan shared: “It’s these kinds of developments that keep us focused on our mission: helping charities do more with less.”
Since its inception, Charity Hive has earned a reputation for transforming how charities, CICs, CASCs, and PTAs approach fundraising – offering control, cost-efficiency, and brand continuity. The platform is trusted by hundreds of organisations across the UK and we strongly believe in the sturdy future of Charity Hive well into the years to come.
