Our Story
jumblebee exists to help people raise funds for good causes.
We endeavour to engage with you and your community in a positive way to make your fundraising more effective, fun, easy to set up, easy to use and rewarding.
An auction is so much more desirable for your community than simply asking for money.
We started jumblebee in 2012. We knew we wanted to be different. We wanted to make a difference. We wanted to give back.
Since its beginnings, the jumblebee product has evolved into something so much more sophisticated and therefore more effective. Going past the £50 million mark of funds raised was a massive moment.
We are continually moved by the causes you support and this spurs us on in our mission to build the world’s leading fundraising platform.
We work with you, listening to how we can bring positive fundraising into your life. Your desire to make a difference is what drives us forwards.
We are always ready to have a conversation about your fundraising requirements and share ideas along the way. The jumblebee platform has developed and continues to develop, incorporating bespoke functions to suit your needs.
We recognise that everyone leads busy lives and it is amazing that so many take time out of their already full day to fundraise. With this in mind it is important that the jumblebee platform is simplicity at its best - practical, quick and easy to use and highly effective.
We feel there is so much more to give and can’t wait to see how the jumblebee platform develops over the next decade and how we can help you to raise more and more for such wonderful causes.
Do something extraordinary and let us help you, help others.
Your creative fundraising team
With over 11 years of experience, the jumblebee family are all on hand to help with your fundraising event
EVENT TECHNICIAN
Our Silent Auctioneer will ensure you maximise funds raised at your event. Their expertise is managing the auction to its full potential by raising bid increments on popular items, highlighting items with no bids and reordering items that may have gone unnoticed. The jumblebee Silent Auctioneer will run the auction from start to finish, monitoring the technology to guarantee 100% uptime and providing you with real-time auction stats and funds raised totals to give you full control over your event.
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Our Silent Auctioneer will ensure you maximise funds raised at your event. Their expertise is managing the auction to its full potential by raising bid increments on popular items, highlighting items with no bids and reordering items that may have gone unnoticed. The jumblebee Silent Auctioneer will run the auction from start to finish, monitoring the technology to guarantee 100% uptime and providing you with real-time auction stats and funds raised totals to give you full control over your event.
FRONT OF HOUSE
Emotionally invested in the cause, and with the knowledge and experience to help you raise as much as possible on the night, jumblebee fundraising specialists live up to their name. We want you and your guests to have the best experience on the night so we never outsource to agency staff. Our fundraising specialists are the eyes and ears on the ground, helping guests with auction registration, encouraging bidding, and collecting payment.
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Emotionally invested in the cause, and with the knowledge and experience to help you raise as much as possible on the night, jumblebee fundraising specialists live up to their name. We want you and your guests to have the best experience on the night so we never outsource to agency staff. Our fundraising specialists are the eyes and ears on the ground, helping guests with auction registration, encouraging bidding, and collecting payment.
CLIENT SERVICE
The jumblebee support team can help you with anything from technical online support to creative fundraising ideas, and can be reached online or by phone if you prefer to talk to someone. The team are always happy to answer your questions and share tips on how best to run an auction and maximise funds raised.
"We always love supporting your fundraising and hearing about the causes close to your heart so please do get in touch!"
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The jumblebee support team can help you with anything from technical online support to creative fundraising ideas, and can be reached online or by phone if you prefer to talk to someone. The team are always happy to answer your questions and share tips on how best to run an auction and maximise funds raised.
"We always love supporting your fundraising and hearing about the causes close to your heart so please do get in touch!"
Why jumblebee?
When looking to do something extraordinary for a cause close to your heart, choose a fundraising partner who stands out from the crowd.
How jumblebee supports your fundraising
Tickets
Sell tickets anywhere with our online ticketshop. Quick, easy and affordable.
Pledge & Donate
Raising funds is easy and free with Pledge and Donate.
Buzz items™
Add a buzz to your auction with our unique range of items.
Prize Draws
Paperless Prize Draws. A fun way for your community to support your cause and win a prize.
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FAQs
These are our top FAQs, if you have a questions that you can't see here, have a look at our full FAQs page or get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
Yes of course, we have two main options for this:
If you choose our beePro service, our fantastic team can attend your event with our Apple iPad bidding tablets connected to our dedicated auction Wi-Fi. Guests can register, view, and bid for items without having to leave their tables, and watch their bids flash up on the leaderboards.
If you would like to run your event totally online yourself (in venues with good Wi-Fi or phone signal), you can choose our beeFree service. When you include 10 or more exciting buzz items in your auction, this service is free of charge, and we will provide you with QR codes to use at your live event so that bidders can easily access the auction on their phones.
If you are interested in running a silent auction alongside a live event, please contact the team at support@jumblebee.co.uk for further details.
2.5% +VAT of the total ticket sales
The fee for an online auction is 5% +VAT of the total winning bids.
There are three different ways to manage payments from buyers or winning bidders:
The first option is that jumblebee collects payment for you. This means that at the conclusion of your auction, all your winners will receive an email that includes a payment link, and they can pay through our payment provider Stripe. The card fees are 2.4% + 20p per transaction, and all auction winners are given the option to donate this fee back to your cause. Funds are held in an FCA regulated client account and transferred across to your nominated bank account when all payments have been collected.
The second option would be to collect payment yourself, directly, via Bank Transfer or otherwise. The winners at the end of your auction will still receive a winner’s email, which can be edited to include the details where they can send their money and a request for a specific reference on the payment, to help you keep track so that you know which prizes can be released.
The third option is to collect via PayPal. Simply enter the email associated with the PayPal account you wish to collect the money in, and, at the conclusion of your auction, your winning bidder email will include a PayPal payment link. PayPal also has associated transaction costs, which can be found online.
To be able to hold a prize draw on jumblebee, you will need to set up a ticket shop first (see above details), then contact support@jumblebee.co.uk for guidance.
Scroll down to “Tickets” on the jumblebee homepage and click on ‘Get started‘.
Simply click on the beeClassic ‘Set up now’ button on the jumblebee homepage and follow the instructions – it takes less than 5 minutes! Once you have set up your auction page you will receive a welcome email from one of our team members with a list of helpful tips to ensure the success of your auction.
If you are happy for us to promote your auction via our ‘Featured auctions’ section or on social media, make sure to set your auction to ‘Public’ and tag us in your posts!