Groups is a flexible way for event organisers to organize, segment and manage their fundraising within any event on GivenGain.
Whether you are participating in a major partner marathon or running your own event, Groups allow you to create your own event, linked to a parent event, which could be your own event or a public event that's organized by another event organiser.
This gives you finer control over how your fundraising activities are run, how your fundraisers are managed, and how your results are tracked.
Why use Groups?
Segment and manage different fundraising teams
Easily organize different types of participants based on entry type, commitments, or team affiliations.
Example: Differentiating fundraisers who received a charity place / free entry (with a required fundraising minimum or fundmin commitment) from own-place / self-funded participants.
Benefit: Tailor messaging, track milestones, and manage fundraiser requirements separately for each category without cluttering your main event.
Key highlights
Seamless setup: Inherits the parent event’s branding, logo, dates, and causes automatically, while still allowing you to customize them as needed.
Dedicated management tab: Easily find and manage all your active, draft, and archived groups under the Groups tab in your GivenGain dashboard.
Independent tracking & leaderboards: Each Group has its own distinct statistics, participant list, and fundraising totals.
Full lifecycle controls: Publish, manage, archive, or delete Groups independently from the parent event.
How to Get Started
Log in using the email address associated with your Event organiser account and navigate to Events (top navigation bar) > Groups > Active.
Click on Create new group and select the parent event that the Group should belong to. Enter a title for your group, for example, The Yes-We-Can Funrunners, and click Continue.
Upload a square logo or image for your group and provide a description of the group, then click Continue.
Choose whether to permit fundraising exclusively for your selected charity (preferred causes) or to enable participants to initiate fundraising projects for your charity and other charities on GivenGain, then click Create draft group page. (If the parent event only allows preferred causes, the Group will also follow this logic.)
On the group preview page, click Looks good! Make it live to activate your new group, or select Edit group to modify the group page and add a cover image, then click View public page and publish it.
Once your group page is live, its URL will be available to share with your supporters. Use the share options located below the group description to distribute the link.
Supporters may now select Give to make a donation or Start fundraising to create their own fundraising project on your behalf.
To edit or manage your group page in future, navigate to Events (top navigation bar) > Groups, select the vertical dots ⋮ icon next to the relevant group page, then choose your preferred action from the popup menu.