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18th April 2011

Vir2 Welcomes 100% Payouts On Orange & T-Mobile Text Donations To Add To Existing 100% Payouts From O2 & Vodafone

Vir2 the UK’s leading specialist dedicated provider of text donation services to charity welcomed the announcement from Everything Everywhere (parent company to T-Mobile UK and Orange) to suspend the charging of administrative fees for donations to charities.
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13th December 2010
BT announce co-operation agreement with Vir2
Vir2 Ltd, the specialist provider of mobile fundraising solutions to the not for profit sector, is working with BT to enable charities to offer donors a choice of payment methods for collecting donations at significantly lower cost to traditional SMS and telephone based services.
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22nd August 2010
Charities Aid Foundation launches text donation service to open up text fundraising for all charities using Vir2's technology platform
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has today (22 November) launched a text donation service which will make it easy and affordable for all charities to fundraise and communicate with supporters through their mobile phones. The new service, part of CAF’s Fundraising Support Service, gives charities a new channel for fundraising, opening up access to the 96% of adults in the UK who own a mobile phone.
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14th July 2010
Vir2 welcomes O2's 100% payout rate for charities

O2 has joined Vodafone in announcing it will from 1st August pass on 100 per cent of text donations to charity. From today, UK-based registered charities will receive the full amount donated by the network’s customers using a five-digit ‘shortcode’ starting with the numbers 70.
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6th July 2010
Vir2 welcomes Vodafone's 100% payout rate for charities
Vodafone has become the first mobile phone operator to pass on 100 per cent of text donations to charity. From today, UK-based registered charities will receive the full amount donated by the network’s customers using a five-digit ‘shortcode’ starting with the numbers 70.
John Low, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, said charities "would celebrate this announcement".
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1st July 2010
Vir2 CEO appointed to Mobile Data Association board
Roger Craven, CEO of Vir2 the UK’s leading specialist SMS service provider to charities was today appointed to the board of the Mobile Data Association. His remit will be to drive forward giving to charity through mobile phones. More>>>

24th May 2010
Vir2 welcomes new network rates for charities

Hampshire based Vir2 Ltd, the UK’s leading specialist provider of mobile phone fundraising solutions, welcomed the announcement from Orange and Virgin Mobile that they were reducing their charges on donations made by text to 10% and 11% respectively on all donations made to charities on the special charity short codes starting 70 like 70300.
Orange were the last network to announce special charity rates. The average percentage received by charity for a text donation is now 90%. More>>>