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Malnutrition is on the rise in the Black Country as hospitals face increase in admissions.

Labour's Shadow Health Secretary described the findings as "staggering and terrible".

Exclusive figures obtained by Black Country Live reveal malnutrition was the main or secondary cause for 410 admissions at trusts across our area in 2018/19. That is up from 315 admissions the year before.

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, said: "This is one of the richest countries in the world. No one here should ever be going hungry.

"But for people to be so malnourished that they end up in hospital - that is staggering and terrible.

"Behind these statistics lie enormous misery and stress.

"They should be a wake-up call for the government to urgently tackle the scandalous levels of poverty in our country.

"The next Labour government will end the cuts, stop the roll out of Universal Credit and ensure that our social security system supports any one of us in our time of need."

Across the Black Country there were 210 hospital admissions because of malnutrition at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust in 2018/19.

That was the third-highest number seen across any trust in the country - behind only Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Merseyside (1,375) and Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London (465).

A further 75 were seen as Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, there were 65 at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and 60 at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

It is important to note that the number of hospital admissions does not reflect the number of patients because a patient can be admitted more than once in a year.

Across England there were 10,183 hospital admissions because of malnutrition in 2018/19.

That was up from 9,307 such admissions the year before and is the highest number on modern record.

Figures go back as far as 2008/09, when there were 3,773 admissions. The number has risen every year since then.

A spokesperson from the British Nutrition Foundation said: "The prevalence of malnutrition is unacceptably high, and comes at a huge cost.

"The risk of health issues from malnutrition are increasingly recognised, including higher risk of infection, slower wound healing, reduced muscle strength and depression.

"It is important to ensure that strategies addressing nutritional care in community, health and social care settings are in place to identify and support those at risk of malnutrition and dehydration from an earlier stage."

The Department for Health and Social Care was contacted for comment.

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Malnutrition is on the rise in the Black Country as hospitals face increase in admissions. Labour's Shadow Health Secretary described the findings as "staggering and terrible". Exclusive figures obtained by Black Country Live reveal malnutrition was the main or secondary cause for 410 admissions at trusts across our area in 2018/19.

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How much does it cost to make an app?

At howmuchcostanapp.co.uk you can find an app cost calculator created by Yeeply. It is a digital tool that you can use for free to calculate how much it would cost to develop an app that you have in mind.

It's very easy to use! You just have to click on the "Start" button and answer the quick questions posed to you by the calculator. You can obtain the approximate cost for your app's development in less than a minute.

However, bear in mind that your app's final price depends on many different factors. Developing a mobile application for Android is not the same as creating an app for iOS, for example. Many of the decisions that you will have to make during the app's development process will have a direct impact on its final cost.

We want to help you make the best decision, so let's have a look at some of these factors to be able to do so. Please, read on! 👇

Factors affecting an app's price

You must take several factors into account when it comes to calculating how much making an app will cost. The following are some of these general factors:

Time: Depending on the deadlines, the cost may or may not increase. If you need the app to be ready before a specific date and the developer has to work overtime the price will go up a bit. On the other hand, if you're more flexible and are not in a hurry at all, the deadline can be readjusted and the development cost will be more restrained.

Quality: The more features the app contains, the more development work it will need. All the details will end up the way you wanted but the cost will obviously go up if the design requires extra effort.

Features: Your app's features are, in other words, what it can do. Some examples of features are: having a signing-up process (entering with an email and password is not the same as logging in through a social network such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), or having a messaging service (a real-time chat, a service for sending simple messages, or a service that can include multimedia content don't come at the same cost).

Release costs: If your application follows a B2C model (i.e. it's not an internal corporate app), you will have to make sure that your potential users find it. This usually involves making an initial investment in digital marketing to give your app visibility and position it well in the app stores by using ASO techniques. This aspect is not directly related to your app's development but is, nevertheless, something essential to take into account.

Additional costs: Did you know that uploading an application to the app stores entails a cost? It's a single payment in the case of Android's Play Store and in the iOS App Store, you must pay an annual fee to register as a developer and be able to upload your app.

Upkeep: Your application cannot afford to get frozen in time. Mobile technologies advance very fast and continuously yield new devices, screen sizes, hardware functionalities... You will have to keep on collaborating with an app development team to ensure that your app remains up-to-date with oncoming technological innovations and to resolve any bugs that may arise. Establishing an hours bank dedicated to your app's maintenance can prove a good approach towards this matter.

The cost of creating an app according to the kind of app development

There are several options available regarding your app's development and not all of them will have the same cost. These are the three main options available:

Web apps. These apps are accessed through a web browser and therefore can work on different kinds of devices. Users don't have to download these apps to be able to use them. They are usually the fastest and least expensive to develop, although, as a drawback, they may experience limitations regarding being able to access mobile phone hardware (such as its camera or positioning system).

Native apps. A native app is an application that has been developed specifically for a given operating system (Android, iOS, Windows, etc.). Being tailored for a specific operating system, it usually works better than its non-native counterparts. Their main disadvantage is that you will have to work on a parallel development process for each of these operating systems if you want your application to be present in these different markets, and this will consequently increase the budget.

Cross-platform apps. These apps have a single code that can adapt to different operating systems. The same development process can yield an application that works on iOS and Android alike, for instance. They are usually less expensive than native apps although, as a drawback, they are slower and also suffer from having limited access to the device's hardware.

As you can see, the kind of app development greatly influences your app's final cost. None of these options is intrinsically better than the other ones, as each of them has its advantages and disadvantages.

A cross-platform app, for example, can be a good option if your application is aimed at a limited number of users, as would be the case of an internal corporate app. On the other hand, opting for a native app would be better if you are targeting the general public, even if this option is more expensive.

Read this step by step guide on our blog, where we explain to you what you need to know about how to create an app.

The cost of developing an app according to the operating system

When you think about creating an app to improve your business, you should be aware of the different operating systems available and choose the kind of devices you want your app to run on.

It is not the same to create an application for Android than for iOS or Windows Phone because its cost will be different. The price will also vary if you consider having an app that works on several operating systems. However, we can give you some advice on the cost differences to make it easier for you to make a final decision.

If you decide to create an application for your company, we suggest developing one that can run on any operating system. In the end, the price may be a little higher, but you will avoid future expenses.

For example, it will cost you less to develop an app that can run on Android and iOS rather than creating one for Android first and a second one for iOS later on.

How much does an app developer charge depending on the app's operating system? You should be aware that the cost of developing a native app for iOS is not the same as that of a native app for Android. iOS developers charge more per hour than their Android counterparts. And in both cases, the price will increase if you hire an app development company instead of freelance developers for creating your app.

How long does it take to build an app?

Developing an application takes time. First, you must choose the kind of development, the type of app, the technology it will make use of, etc. Once you have all this sorted, you'll enter your app's design stage, in which wireframes and mock-ups will be defined. All this will be handled afterwards to an expert developer who will begin to programme your app's code. And you still have the testing and bug-fixing stage ahead of you.

Each app requires a specific development time that will depend heavily on its level of complexity. However, as guidance, we can say that the average time employed for this whole process is about 18 weeks.

If there's a deadline for your application to be ready, it's essential that you share it with your development team and that they send you back a work calendar conceived to meet such a deadline that covers all the project's stages. By doing so, you will be able to monitor the project's progress and check that it is evolving at a good pace stage by stage.

Is offering your application for free a viable option?

This is a common question that concerns almost all companies wanting to launch an app. If you create a tool that's similar to an existing free one, it is not advisable to charge for downloading your application.

A free app can open many doors for you. You can finance it with advertising. Look for ads that are interesting to your target audience.

If you decide to go for a paid-for app, you'll have to explain why users have to pay for it in its description in the online store where the app is available. They need to know what sets you apart from the rest so that they get to pay for your app instead of downloading the free one from your competitor.

Advantages of developing an app for your company

The reasons for doing so can be manifold, and you may have already considered one of the following:

If your company has internal management processes that use different digital tools or that may even be in paper format, you could think of an app that helps to coordinate your business processes in an easy and centralised way.

If your customers have to make an appointment to be attended, an app is also a good solution. It will make your job easier while saving you time without having to always keep an eye out for answering the phone.

A third reason could be that you may want to develop an application simply to give added value to your company and customers.

Can an app be the solution to a problem?

Yes, for a few years now, applications have become a solution to many day-to-day issues. Besides, apps are a very direct communication channel between companies and potential customers. You can take great advantage of this aspect.

For your business to be successful, the first thing you need to do is to detect problems. An app could be a useful way to solve an existing issue.

Regardless of the app's cost, you should study your industry rivals. Look, for example, if they have applications to manage different services that you are still managing offline.

Nowadays, there are plenty of management apps and a personalised one may add value to your company. This stage of analysis will help you define your project better and thus your app's development budget will be more realistic.

Depending on the problem, you will look for one solution or another. These are some of the solutions that could work well for a series of issues that may be detected:

Options available for my app's development

Are you a little clearer on how much can your application cost and on what kind of development will suit you best? If so, you may be considering the next step: setting your app project in motion.

There are some free app creation tools whose use is simple and intuitive, but the truth is that their results are not entirely professional. Nevertheless, they can be used to make a prototype of the app.

If you take your mobile application project seriously and aim at getting the most out of your time and budget, it is best to rely on professionals. We propose three options, although you must get first well acquainted with the different professionals who take part in an app's creation process.

We have already discussed to a great extent the importance of being able to rely on a good developer, but the developer is by no means the only technical profile involved in an app's development.

Before reaching its development stage, the app goes through a design team. This team will be in charge of the app's visual appearance. However, this work goes far beyond the app's graphical aspects. The team is also in charge of ensuring that the app's user-friendliness ( UX) and user interface ( UI) will run smoothly on the app's final version. You can find highly qualified professionals who specialise specifically in these two areas.

This design will then be handled to an app development team. Please, discard the idea that any kind of app can be created by the very same developer. Each programming language or kind of development is a whole world unto itself. Therefore, seek a developer with technical experience in the specific kind of app that you are going to create.

Finally, as we have mentioned before, you must have a plan to get your users to download your application if it's a B2C app. To achieve this, it can come in handy to rely on a marketing team with ASO, SEO, and advertising campaigns experts, among other professionals.

Where can you find these profiles? We provide you here with three alternatives that, as you can imagine, will require substantially different budgets.

Option number 1: Freelancers

This option may be appropriate if the scale of your app project is not very large. You can hire freelancers on some platforms. It's advisable to take a look at the references given to them on such platforms by their latest customers.

An app developed by a freelancer can be less expensive, although this option also involves many drawbacks. On the one hand, there is a high competition among the developers for hire in these platforms. This makes the quotes offered prone to be downsized to be more attractive but, on the other hand, this trend also has sometimes a negative impact on the app's final quality.

Also, how will you coordinate several professionals if you need to hire a bunch of them? How can you be sure that they will know how to collaborate effectively with each other? Will you be able to cope painlessly with the management of several independent providers? If you are not sure about these issues, just remember that you still have two other options.

Option number 2: An app development company

This kind of partner specialises in the technological product you want to create and, therefore, will normally have all the profiles required. Hiring an app development company or agency is more expensive than working with a freelancer but it entails several advantages.

On the one hand, working with a single provider will be more convenient for you and allow you more time to monitor the project's progress and focus on its subsequent phases. Besides, it may also be easier for you to validate their experience (ask them about some of the applications that they have already developed!).

As a drawback, this kind of companies tend to ask for a high budget and are not very flexible, so any unforeseen issues or possible improvements that may arise during the development process can be very expensive to fix or to implement.

Option number 3: Marketplaces

A technology marketplace is a platform where you can outsource your project's development to one or several tech-specialist teams. Yeeply is an example of such a marketplace. This is how it works:

You publish your project on our platform, giving as much detail as possible.

The platform then puts you in touch with the appropriate team, based on your needs, deadlines, and budget.

The team will then contact you and send you a quote. If you agree with the quote, you can start working together right away. If this is not the case, you can request a quote from a different team through the platform.

The advantage of using a marketplace like Yeeply is that you don't have to waste your time validating the team: all of our professionals have passed a strict certification process and our algorithm will match you with those professionals who suit your needs best.

With Yeeply you can work with professionals from any discipline through a single provider. The diversity of our talent and its wide geographical distribution allows us to be able to always offer you a budget that fits your needs.

How to get your project started with Yeeply

If you're ready to get started, please click on this link and tell us a little more about your project. You'll just have to answer a few questions on the form provided there.

We will contact you to answer your question and/or give you the necessary advice. Thanks to the experience and knowledge we have gathered through the years, we have become app development industry experts.

We have helped more than 750 companies to carry out over 1,000 projects, many of them related to the development of apps of all kinds. Don't hesitate to have a look at some of the companies we have worked with by clicking on this link. Thanks to this experience we are certain that we can help you make any kind of application a reality. Shall we get started?

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Portrayal and Symbolism

Epithets

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Demeter's Consorts: Iasion, Poseidon, and Zeus

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King did just that, and spent a whole year living in her newly built temple, grieving, and, in her grief, neglecting all her duties as a goddess of fertility and agriculture. As a consequence, the earth turned barren, and people started dying out of hunger. After unsuccessfully sending all the gods, one by one, to with gifts and pleas, realized that he would have to bring Persephone back to her mother if he didn't want to see humanity wiped out from the planet.

The former, the period during which is grieving, corresponds to the winter months of the year when the earth is infertile and bare; the latter, when she rejoices, overlaps with the abundant months of our springs and summers. The myth likewise explains the growth cycle of the plants. The grain, just like Persephone, must die and be buried under the earth in order to bear much fruit above it.

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If you're searching for a UK app developer then you've come to the right place. The UK has been referred to as a "powerhouse" of the global app development market, and for iOS, Android and Cross Platform, the data backs it all up.

In 2019, 79% of adults in UK owned a smartphone. On average brits spent 2 hours and 34 minutes interacting with their smartphones on a daily basis, spending 1 out of 5 minutes on social media. 72% of mobile connections in UK were 4G.

The app development market naturally follows, with plenty of app developers both in London and beyond, another hub being Manchester. This guide looks at the UK app development scene in detail, counting up the cost of having a mobile application developed in the country. It covers what you should think about when choosing an app developer in the UK and then lists some of the best companies who operate in the country.

We have put this list of UK app developers together based on our own research, suggestions from our network and based on rankings and data from other third party sources and sites. The list is in no particular order, rather we have tried to aggregate and curate a range of useful suggestions for UK app development shops. Whether you choose to work with them or not is up to you to decide. This guide is divided into four sections, providing background on the market, typical app development costs and the best way to make your selection before providing some more details on specific app development companies operating in the UK market.

You can jump to the start of each section using the section headings below:

We begin with an overview of the app developer market in the UK.

The app developer market in the UK

It's a strong one.

Revenues in the UK app developer market are forecast to be more than £31 billion by 2025, and according to a report by Vision Mobile, the economy will be worth more than £30 billion by 2030.

App developers can be found all over the United Kingdom, but the majority is clustered around London. Of its 8000 app-development-related companies (around a fifth of all European app development agencies), 31% are located in the capital, and about 25% of those in the south-east part of the city.
Location of app development companies in UK
It's estimated that these together employ 380,000 people (though not all of them are developers - this includes designers, admin and marketing people involved in the app industry.)

With all signs that the industry is growing, what kind of prices can you expect to develop a mobile application in the UK?

UK app development costs

How do UK app development costs measure up globally?

Globally, an iOS mobile app development price tag is in a ballpark of $28,000, for Android its $23,000 and $18,000 for a Window Phone OS.

The UK has some of the best app developers in the world, and thus costs can be close to the global average. According to this app development price calculator, a single platform app could cost £ 38,000, while a two-platform app can reach £42,000. These costs are calculated for developing an app from scratch, with a multi-lingual interface, a user account, in-app purchases and custom UI design.

The amount a developer charges per hour also comes close to global highs. Below you can find a graph for the estimated minimum and maximum you can expect to pay hourly for an app developer to work on your iOS or Android app.
Median cost of mobile app development in select regions worldwide, by platform
The reason for the high price is quality: not only are some of the best app developers in the world found here, but many US firms have offices here - while not technically from the UK, they operate on the territory and raise the average.

Having had a glimpse of the cost and skill of the developers in the UK, how do you go about choosing one?

Top UK App Development Companies:

How to choose app developers in the UK

There's a few things you should know:

Two major sections: the research you can do on your own, and the interview phase with the app developer, where you'll explore their skills and expertise while they try to understand your business and your app. The research you can do at home is as follows:

Review their portfolio: not only to see how many apps they've made and how successful they've been, but also to see which industries they've worked for. A niche social network app has vastly different characteristics and challenges to a mobile enterprise app for industry. Experience in your specific field of business is just as important as development skills.

Recommendations: ask others in your industry who have launched successful apps to recommend a developer, or find out who made the most successful apps if there's an industry benchmark.

Check out our Market Place: You'll find a wealth of information and app developer profiles in Business of App's Marketplace.

Top 5 UK App Development Companies, by Twitter Followers

Best UK App Developers

These the top app development companies with offices in the UK. They're not ranked in any order, they're just "the best." We've gone for a mix of budgets, skills and expertise as well as made sure to choose companies from all over the UK, not just in London.

List of mobile app development companies in the UK

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Looking to help reduce your food waste? Here we've found 7 inspiring and practical apps that can help you save the planet and stop food waste.

On the Too Good To Go app, restaurants, cafes and bakeries list leftover food that would otherwise be thrown away. Users can then browse the map for food near them and pick up a 'magic bag' for a fraction of the original retail cost. Registration to the app is free and users can specify their dietary requirements. Too Good To Go also teams up with businesses in the food industry to help them look at their individual food waste problems.

Too Good To Go is a certified B Corp who, like Oddbox, believes cutting food waste is one of the most important things we can do to reverse climate change. But their global mission reaches much further than their app. Too Good To Go is pushing for legislation to clear up confusion around food labelling that leads to food waste. They also run a campaign that teaches how to "Look, Smell, Taste" food before tossing it out. Too Good To Go has worked with over 500 schools and universities through events, lectures and research to improve everyone's education around food waste. Their website is packed with handy and well-researched resources for all age groups.

Olio provides a platform for neighbours to share unwanted food and other items, all for free. People are free to share or pick up anything from an unwanted gift, produce that's on its date from a local store, leftover event catering supplies or excess food that won't get eaten before a holiday. Olio also partners with catering, hospitality and retail businesses to pick up surplus food 24/7 and send it out into the local community.

Olio is keen to highlight how easy it is to dismiss food waste as a problem caused by supermarkets and farming. But when more than 50% of food waste happens in our homes, and institutional change is very slow, there's a great opportunity for us to spark change with our daily actions. Olio offers plenty of different volunteering opportunities that are simple and easy to sign up for, like spreading the word about Olio or picking up surplus food from a local business. They have a heap of resources for partnered businesses and schools to use so they can teach others about the problem of food waste.

The Karma app enables users to rescue fresh food from restaurants, bakeries, cafes and even wholesalers that would have otherwise been thrown away. It's similar to Too Good To Go, especially as food is offered at a handsome discounted price. The difference is that rather than getting a surprise selection, users can see exactly which meals are available to buy at each eaterie. Karma wants to create the "least ambitious climate movement the world has ever seen" - because eating is one of the easiest things we can do!

Karma stresses that food transport and packaging are responsible for a tiny amount of emissions in the food industry. The production of the food itself uses far more resources, which is why making sure we don't waste food once it has been grown is the most important action we can take. So far, Karma has rescued over 4 million meals and saved 1,800 tonnes of CO2. They have 1.4 million app users in 225 cities worldwide.

FoodCloud connects supermarkets with charities and community groups, such as homeless shelters and family support services, across the UK and Ireland. All kinds of food businesses can use FoodCloud's technology to donate their surplus food. Supermarkets simply upload a description of the unsold food they have to an app and a local, linked charity gets a notification that food can be collected. Farms, manufacturers and distributors donate food and the FoodCloud team distribute it the next day.

FoodCloud's vision is to see a world where no good food goes to waste, and they're helping us get there by redistributing surplus food and promoting kindness. Their actions have two crucial outcomes - they both prevent food waste and feed those who need the food the most. By 2017, they'd already enabled 2,528 tonnes of food to be donated to over 1,100 charities in the UK and Ireland.

For those of us who want to prevent food waste in our own homes, an app like NoWaste may be just what we need. NoWaste users can scan receipts and barcodes, log each weekly shop, make lists of what's in, plan meals more effectively and receive automatic expiration reminders. Beyond their main aim of reducing food waste, 5-star reviewers rave that NoWaste has saved them time, money and mental energy when managing the food in their home.

NoWaste is a team of one - Kasper Hjortsballe - whose vision is to simply have the "no. 1 app to reduce food waste and food loss by consumers". He believes he has made it easier than ever to know the contents of your freezer, fridge and pantry. The app's software is continuously optimised so its features should keep on improving.

nosh is an AI-based app offering another option to track the food you have in your home. With nosh, users can view categorised expiry and use by dates all on one screen, so they can easily prioritise which foods to use up first. nosh shares this functionality but emphasises that best before dates aren't intended to say the food is no longer safe to eat. Users have access to recipe suggestions, clear visibility of the foods they already have and a weekly shopping list formulated based on their buying and wasting habits.

nosh has recognised many of us are now buying more food and stocking up to avoid going out so often. But they feel strongly this shouldn't be at the expense of our valuable resources. nosh estimates the app has helped save 103,400 food items and 41.94 tonnes of CO2 emissions so far.

Kitche is ideal for those among us who either run out of ideas to make use of our leftovers or aren't entirely clued up on what we're wasting. The free app has thousands of recipe suggestions that users can filter by the ingredients in their kitchen that need to be used up. It has similar features as NoWaste and nosh, like supermarket receipt scanning and food expiration prompts. Users swipe to 'toss products', making it easier to confront their own food waste habits and change in the future.

Kitche has been featured by the BBC and The Guardian. Co-founder Alex Vlassopulos designed the Kitche app based on how he manages his own kitchen - by planning meals based on what needs eating first and minimising food waste. The Kitche team believe most of the £70 worth of good food the average UK family throws out every month can be avoided with diligence and by using their app.

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The budget Aldi meal that feeds an entire family for just 70p a head

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The end result was a “rather tasty and satisfying cottage pie” that came out at just 71p a head.

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GoFundMe has made its name primarily as a platform for individuals to create fundraisers for personal causes - a service that has seen hundreds of campaigns go viral through social media to raise collectively well over $5 billion in funding to date. Now, the startup is taking the next step in its ambition to build what CEO Rob Solomon calls the "giving layer of the internet."

GoFundMe is launching a new free-to-use fundraising platform for nonprofits of all sizes called GoFundMe Charity; and for the first time, it has created a button that can be integrated into any site to donate money wherever people want to do so. Both will roll out in November, but the charity platform already counts nonprofits like the American Cancer Society and the Boston Marathon among its customers.

To be clear, providing services to nonprofits is not totally new territory for GoFundMe. The company acquired CrowdRise, which focused specifically on nonprofits, in 2017, and gradually started to integrate some of the functionality and branding into the bigger platform a year later. And since last year it has offered a service for teams and groups (including nonprofit groups) to come together to raise for the same cause.

With this latest launch, teams fundraising remains, but GoFundMe will be sunsetting CrowdRise the brand and transitioning the platform's nonprofit customers (which include high-profile events like the Boston Marathon) to GoFundMe Charity.

The giving layer of the internet

The news comes at an interesting time for GoFundMe.

While its individual causes-based campaigns continue to be created and disseminated across social platforms, it is facing competition of two kinds: that of the platforms themselves (specifically, Facebook, which is using its billions of users to grow its own causes-donations platform rapidly: in September it passed the $2 billion mark in fundraising for causes); and that of user ennui, where people have been facing up to a kind of fatigue when it comes to too many individuals asking for money, and sometimes not for the most worthy of causes.

Ramping up its business for nonprofits, on the other hand, catapults GoFundMe into a much bigger, older and (potentially?) more resilient sector of the charitable donations market. In the U.S. alone, some $427 billion was donated to nonprofits in 2018, according to Giving USA. That's up on an estimated $410 billion in nonprofit donations in 2017.

Currently, only around a quarter of donations are made through digital platforms, with the remainder through more traditional channels such as events, door-to-door appeals and direct-mail campaigns. As digitally native consumers become targets for nonprofits, GoFundMe sees an opportunity in taking the tools and services it originally built for individuals and tailoring them to these groups.

"Charities have the same challenges as individuals in reaching constituents," said Solomon in an interview. "We're talking about whole generations of people who will not donate to charities the same way that older generations did. Charity has been disrupted by the internet and those older methods won't work anymore."

Solomon said that GoFundMe is not commenting on whether it expects more nonprofits to pay fees or run the option for tipping among its users, nor would he say if GoFundMe has projected how much it might make from one or the other option.

The new business model GoFundMe is introducing with charities presents a much wider range of services for nonprofits aimed at making GoFundMe a more useful and flexible platform.

Charity groups will now have the option either to pay fees to use the service (donor-covered fees), or use it for free by offering the tipping feature that GoFundMe uses on its consumer-focused site. This is a departure compared to the the platforms that power many nonprofit sites and events, which typically charge for their services. GoFundMe says it will specify what the donor-covered fees will be closer to the launch date.

Then, moving away from the familiar, basic layout that GoFundMe offers for individual causes today, nonprofits will also be given more design freedom: They will have the option to customise their pages; and nonprofits can run GoFundMe campaigns on their own sites (not yet apps) by placing a customised button for people to donate - similar to how Facebook disseminated its "Like" buttons, or PayPal and other payment services created "buy" buttons.

They will also be provided with analytics on how their campaigns are performing, and CRM integrations to link up GoFundMe campaigns with wider marketing efforts. And nonprofits running events where individuals are fundraising - for example, around charity runs - will be able to do this under the bigger GoFundMe umbrella, including enlisting and organising individual fundraisers, or selling tickets to charity events.

GoFundMe will also be leveraging its own traction in the fundraising market to grow this business.

The idea is twofold here: The first aim will be to bring to nonprofit groups the kind of storytelling and social media virality that has done so well on GoFundMe already.

The second aim will be to bring the mountain to Mohamed, so to speak: The platform currently has more than 50 million users, and like other funding platforms, GoFundMe has made a business out of recirculating those donors; once you give to one cause, your details are in the system and that makes it easier to donate elsewhere on the same platform. Now the nonprofits will also have access to that pool of users that has been proven to be willing to step up financially.

Up to now, the tipping model has been working for the company, although we don't know how revenues from it compare to those when it charged platform fees.

Solomon noted that the company is profitable and has been able to grow its business on the back of the tipping model it now uses for its individual campaigns (it dropped its platform fee in 2017 and then acquired YouCaring, a competitor that built a profitable business on tipping alone).

GoFundMe has never disclosed much on the financial front - it has only ever had one round of funding, of an undisclosed amount, from a group of investors that included Accel, Greylock, TCV, Iconic, Meritech and Stripes. We'd heard that at one point PayPal had wanted to acquire the company for about $1 billion, but that never developed, and GoFundMe has continued to grow.

Solomon said that those investors will eventually want "a liquidity event," whether that comes in the form of an IPO, or private equity investment, or an M&A move, but that won't be for a while.

"We're not focused on that at all, and don't expect to see anything for another year or two," he said.

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GoFundMe launches free platform for nonprofits and charities, rolls out button to donate anywhere

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GoFundMe has made its name primarily as a platform for individuals to create fundraisers for personal causes - a service that has seen hundreds of campaigns go viral through social media to raise collectively well over $5 billion in funding to date. Now, the startup is taking the next step in...

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Almost 4 million children in the UK live in households that would struggle to afford to buy enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other healthy foods to meet the official nutrition guidelines, a groundbreaking food poverty study reveals.

The research, by the Food Foundation thinktank, says the diminishing ability of low-income families to pay for healthy food is consigning the least well-off to a greater risk of diet related illness, such as obesity and diabetes, as well as widening health inequalities across society.

The poorest fifth of families would have to set aside more than 40% of their total weekly income after housing costs to satisfy the requirements of the government's Eatwell guide, the study finds.

The authors of the report have called on ministers to increase welfare benefit payments and ensure healthy foods are made more widely available and affordable to low-income households, for instance through maternity food vouchers and universal free school meals.

"The government's measurement of household income highlights the fact that millions of families in the UK cannot afford to eat in line with the government's own dietary guidance," said Anna Taylor, the executive director of the Food Foundation. "It's crucial that a coordinated cross-government effort develops policy that accounts for the cost of its recommended diet and creates a food system that does not consign those on lower incomes to the risk of diet related illness."

The Eatwell guide, drawn up by Public Health England, defines the advised proportion of a diet relating to five categories: fruit and vegetables; carbohydrates such as potatoes, rice and pasta; proteins including beans, fish, eggs and meat; dairy; and oils and spreads.

The Food Foundation says its study is the first investigation into the extent to which typical UK households can afford to follow the guidelines. On official cost estimates, it calculates that a family of two adults and two children aged 10 and 15 would need to spend £103.17 a week on the food.

The official cost per adult of meeting the Eatwell guidelines is £41.93 a week. A household with two adults would need to spend £68.74 per week, the study calculates. A family of two adults and three children, aged two, five and eight, would need a weekly food budget of £111.35.

The study estimates that 47% of all UK households with children do not spend enough on food to meet the Eatwell cost targets, a proportion that rises to 60% for single parent families. Just 20% of households where the main earner is unemployed spends the recommended amount, it estimates.

The costs of healthy eating fall disproportionately on the poorest half of the population, for whom a healthy balanced diet would account for nearly a third of disposable income on average, the study finds. This compares with an average 12% of disposable income for the wealthiest half of households.

Households in the lowest two income deciles - earning less than £15,860 a year - would need to spend 42% of their income after rent, while those in the top 10% of incomes would need to spend just 6% of their disposable income, the researchers estimate.

Although the foundation is concerned about some households lacking cookery skills or access to shops selling fresh produce, it believes lack of money is the main driver of unhealthy eating. "Most people know what to do for a healthy diet, but they don't do it because the healthy options are not the cheap options," a spokesperson said.

The study comes as concerns rise about food insecurity (defined as an inability to afford to eat regularly or healthily) among the poorest households.

A parliamentary bill requiring the government to measure food insecurity, drawn up by Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck, will get its second reading in October.

Income in poor households decreased by 7.1% between 2002 and 2016, the study says, while food prices rose by 7.7%. It says further price rises, triggered for example by Brexit-related fluctuations in the value of the pound, could leave a family of four needing an extra £158 a year to meet Eatwell standards.

"For households in the lowest income deciles who are already struggling to afford a healthy diet, this level of price increase will move the government's official dietary recommendations further out of reach," it says.

Last year, a Food Standards Agency survey revealed that four million UK adults said that they had experienced low or very low food security, meaning they had struggled to afford to eat healthily and, as a consequence, had skipped meals or reduced the quality of their diet.

Alison Tedstone, the chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: "This report suggests £6 per day for an adult; we are currently spending about the same amount eating poorly. Our food choices are affected by other factors such as the volume of fast-food outlets on our streets and promotions of unhealthy foods in our shops, highlighting why our work to improve the nation's diet is so important."

The Labour MP Sharon Hodgson, whochairs an parliamentary inquiry into child food poverty, said: "It cannot be right that 50% of households in the UK currently have insufficient food budgets to meet the government's recommended Eatwell Guide."

The independent Food Foundation thinktank was set up by the former Conservative MP Laura Sandys and counts the public health expert Sir Michael Marmot and the mayor of London's food adviser, Rosie Boycott, among its trustees and advisors.

Case study

"I really try, and my kids eat well, but how we are eating is not how I would really like them to eat," says Elaine, 41, a married mother of four children aged four to 15 living in Thanet, Kent.

Elaine's weekly household food budget is £50 to £60 a week but, according to the Food Foundation,to meet the government guidelines on healthy eating she should be spending £131.28.

The former nursery nurse spends £8 a week on fruit, mainly apples, oranges and bananas, and keeps a eye out for bargain vegetables in her local Aldi and Tesco shops. A tight budget means she is adept at improvising at mealtimes and she sometimes goes without meals so that her children can eat.

Her food budget can easily be knocked off course by other essential costs, such as the purchase of new shoes or school uniforms or extra heating during a cold snap. In some weeks, she thinks her food budget drops to £30.

When money is scarce, she buys items such as cheap sausages, bread and donuts, freezing them to make them last, even though she knows these are not healthy foods. "It's lots of carbs and sugar and salt but it is filling and it's cheap."

She hopes to return to work when her youngest goes to school this month but, for the moment, the family is benefit-capped - her husband had to give up work for health reasons - restricting her household income to £385 a week including rent, and reducing her disposable weekly income by £95.

Ideally, she said she would spend a minimum of £120 a week on food for the family. She likes spinach, for example, and strawberries, but these are a rare treat. She would buy more salad and a wider variety of vegetables and "decent meat", she said.

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info on malnutrition and effects - stats

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Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person's intake of energy and/or nutrients. The term malnutrition addresses 3 broad groups of conditions:

undernutrition, which includes wasting (low weight-for-height), stunting (low height-for-age) and underweight (low weight-for-age);

micronutrient-related malnutrition, which includes micronutrient deficiencies (a lack of important vitamins and minerals) or micronutrient excess; and

overweight, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers).

Various forms of malnutrition

Undernutrition

There are 4 broad sub-forms of undernutrition: wasting, stunting, underweight, and deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. Undernutrition makes children in particular much more vulnerable to disease and death.

Low weight-for-height is known as wasting. It usually indicates recent and severe weight loss, because a person has not had enough food to eat and/or they have had an infectious disease, such as diarrhoea, which has caused them to lose weight. A young child who is moderately or severely wasted has an increased risk of death, but treatment is possible.

Low height-for-age is known as stunting. It is the result of chronic or recurrent undernutrition, usually associated with poor socioeconomic conditions, poor maternal health and nutrition, frequent illness, and/or inappropriate infant and young child feeding and care in early life. Stunting holds children back from reaching their physical and cognitive potential.

Children with low weight-for-age are known as underweight. A child who is underweight may be stunted, wasted, or both.

Micronutrient-related malnutrition

Inadequacies in intake of vitamins and minerals often referred to as micronutrients, can also be grouped together. Micronutrients enable the body to produce enzymes, hormones, and other substances that are essential for proper growth and development.

Iodine, vitamin A, and iron are the most important in global public health terms; their deficiency represents a major threat to the health and development of populations worldwide, particularly children and pregnant women in low-income countries.

Overweight and obesity

Overweight and obesity is when a person is too heavy for his or her height. Abnormal or excessive fat accumulation can impair health.

Body mass index (BMI) is an index of weight-for-height commonly used to classify overweight and obesity. It is defined as a person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of his/her height in meters (kg/m²). In adults, overweight is defined as a BMI of 25 or more, whereas obesity is a BMI of 30 or more.

Overweight and obesity result from an imbalance between energy consumed (too much) and energy expended (too little). Globally, people are consuming foods and drinks that are more energy-dense (high in sugars and fats), and engaging in less physical activity.

Diet-related noncommunicable diseases

Diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) include cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks and stroke, and often linked with high blood pressure), certain cancers, and diabetes. Unhealthy diets and poor nutrition are among the top risk factors for these diseases globally.

Scope of the problem

In 2014, approximately 462 million adults worldwide were underweight, while 1.9 billion were either overweight or obese.

In 2016, an estimated 155 million children under the age of 5 years were suffering from stunting, while 41 million were overweight or obese.

Around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. These mostly occur in low- and middle-income countries. At the same time, in these same countries, rates of childhood overweight and obesity are rising.

Who is at risk?

Every country in the world is affected by one or more forms of malnutrition. Combating malnutrition in all its forms is one of the greatest global health challenges.

Women, infants, children, and adolescents are at particular risk of malnutrition. Optimizing nutrition early in life-including the 1000 days from conception to a child's second birthday-ensures the best possible start in life, with long-term benefits.

Poverty amplifies the risk of, and risks from, malnutrition. People who are poor are more likely to be affected by different forms of malnutrition. Also, malnutrition increases health care costs, reduces productivity, and slows economic growth, which can perpetuate a cycle of poverty and ill-health.

The United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition

On 1 April 2016, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaimed 2016-2025 the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition. The Decade is an unprecedented opportunity for addressing all forms of malnutrition. It sets a concrete timeline for implementation of the commitments made at the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) to meet a set of global nutrition targets and diet-related NCD targets by 2025, as well as relevant targets in the Agenda for Sustainable Development by 2030-in particular, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 (end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture) and SDG 3 (ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages).

Led by WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition calls for policy action across 6 key areas:

creating sustainable, resilient food systems for healthy diets;

providing social protection and nutrition-related education for all;

aligning health systems to nutrition needs, and providing universal coverage of essential nutrition interventions;

ensuring that trade and investment policies improve nutrition;

building safe and supportive environments for nutrition at all ages; and

strengthening and promoting nutrition governance and accountability, everywhere.

WHO response

WHO aims for a world free of all forms of malnutrition, where all people achieve health and wellbeing. According to the 2016-2025 nutrition strategy, WHO works with Member States and partners towards universal access to effective nutrition interventions and to healthy diets from sustainable and resilient food systems. WHO uses its convening power to help set, align and advocate for priorities and policies that move nutrition forward globally; develops evidence-informed guidance based on robust scientific and ethical frameworks; supports the adoption of guidance and implementation of effective nutrition actions; and monitors and evaluates policy and programme implementation and nutrition outcomes.

This work is framed by the Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, adopted by Member States through a World Health Assembly resolution in 2012. Actions to end malnutrition are also vital for achieving the diet-related targets of the Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013-2020, the Global strategy for women's, children's, and adolescent's health 2016-2030, and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.

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Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person's intake of energy and/or nutrients. The term malnutrition addresses 3 broad groups of conditions: undernutrition, which includes wasting (low weight-for-height), stunting (low height-for-age) and underweight (low weight-for-age); micronutrient-related malnutrition, which includes micronutrient deficiencies (a lack of important vitamins and minerals) or micronutrient excess; and overweight, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers).

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The table shows different definitions and thresholds necessary to not be considered either in poverty or deprived. The amount of income is dependent on the type of household.

The Minimum Income Standard identifies what incomes different households require to reach a minimum socially acceptable living standard.

Households are considered to be below the UK poverty line if their income is 60% below the median household income after housing costs for that year.

Households in destitution are defined by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as those who have to go without two or more essentials in the past month because they couldn't afford them, or if their income is extremely low (less than £70 a week for a single adult). Essentials are defined as having a home, food, heating, lighting clothing, shoes and basic toiletries.

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Poverty definitions and thresholds | Trust for London

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The table shows different definitions and thresholds necessary to not be considered either in poverty or deprived. The amount of income is dependent on the type of household. The Minimum Income Standard identifies what incomes different households require to reach a minimum socially acceptable living standard.