Charities
Fundraising for charities through switching
Every energy or broadband switch earns a referral commission from the provider. With Switch4Good, the supporter chooses where the cause share goes, and it can be your charity. Your supporters pay the provider's own price. The commission does the work.
How it works for your charity
When one of supporters, volunteers, trustees and their families switches a household service through Switch4Good and chooses your charity, the provider pays us a referral commission. At least 50% of eligible commission goes to your charity.
A switch is not a gift, and nobody is asked to give money. The supporter pays the provider’s own price for a service they were going to have anyway. The commission comes from the provider.
- Nothing extra to ask for: supporters switch a bill they pay anyway; the price is set by the provider, not by Switch4Good
- No minimum size: any registered charity can join
- Free to join: there is no registration fee and no ongoing cost
Illustrative figures
What your charity could raise
For energy and broadband, each switch sends at least 50% of eligible commission to the cause the supporter chose. Typical amounts per switch:
- Energy (Dual fuel, 12-month contracts): at least £15 – £28 to the cause
- Broadband (18 or 24-month contracts): at least £10 – £85, depending on the package and provider to the cause
Illustrative example: If 50 supporters switch energy, that is £750 – £1,400 for your charity. If 50 supporters switch broadband, that is £500 – £4,250 for your charity.
Illustrative only: these are typical figures, confirmed against provider contracts, and not a forecast or a promise. What your charity receives depends on who switches, to what, and whether the switch completes. Eligible commission is the commission a provider actually pays Switch4Good for a switch, less any clawback or refund. How the commission works
How to get started
Register
Fill in the registration form. You will need your registered charity number and an email address you can confirm. It takes a few minutes.
Sign the agreement
Someone who can sign for your charity signs the Commercial Participation Agreement online, or you invite them to. Your charity’s page goes live once its profile is complete and the agreement is signed.
Tell your community
Your dashboard has a marketing kit: newsletter text, social posts, a WhatsApp message, an email signature, images and QR codes.
Get paid
Paid quarterly in arrears, around 90 days after the month a switch completes, once supplier clawback periods have passed.
What we check
- Your email address: we send a six-digit code to confirm you control the inbox.
- Your charity: we look up its number in the charity registers for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. A match fills in the name and address, which you can correct; we keep the original for our records.
- No match? You can enter the details by hand, and our team reviews them.
- Before we pay, we need valid bank details for your charity.
What the check does not prove. A register match tells us the organisation exists. It does not prove that you are authorised to act for it. We review that separately after the page goes live, and we can pause a cause if the review finds a problem.
The agreement, in plain English
Every cause signs the Commercial Participation Agreement (CPA v1.1) before it can receive money. This is a summary, not the agreement: the agreement is what counts.
- It is between Switch4Good Limited and your charity. Switch4Good Limited is a commercial business and not a charity. We act as a commercial participator, not as your charity’s agent.
- For energy and broadband, at least 50% of eligible commission from each switch goes to the cause the supporter chose. If a supporter splits their choice between causes, the share is split too.
- If a supporter cancels within the provider’s clawback period, the commission can be taken back, and the amount is adjusted.
- We ask before we use your charity’s name or logo in promotions. You have 10 working days to reply; no reply counts as approval.
- Your charity uses the money for its charitable purposes.
- You can ask to see our records of switches and commission for your charity, and ask for reports on how it is going.
- Either side can end the agreement with 30 days’ written notice, and your charity can end it at once if the association would harm its reputation. We pay what is due up to the end.
Read it in full: the whole agreement (CPA v1.1, last updated October 2026) is shown at the signing step of registration, before anything is signed. To read it before you register, ask us for a copy.
When you are paid
Paid quarterly in arrears, around 90 days after the month a switch completes, once supplier clawback periods have passed. (Commercial Participation Agreement, clause 6.1.)
Each payment comes with a statement of the switches and commission it covers. If we do not have valid bank details for your charity, we hold the payment for 90 days while you put that right.
Your data, and your supporters’
We do not ask your charity for a list of supporters. People sign up themselves, as the adults who hold the household bills.
Your dashboard shows the total raised for your charity, how many supporters have chosen it, and recent switches by service, provider and status, without names. Supporters are anonymous to you by default. A supporter who chooses to be named to your charity shows with their name, email address and switches, and you can send them a thank-you.