WeGotTickets  and Macmillan are sending a huge thank you to all their customers after news of the paperless ticketing agency’s most successful fundraising campaign with customer donations reaching an average of £130 per day.

A grand total of £5,000 was raised in total from these customer donations, WeGotTickets’ 20% booking fee for tickets to Macmillan’s Big Mix Festival in Shoreditch in June and gift aid.  The team at Macmillan have sent a personal thank you to all those who took part in supporting them via the site.   In total over £32,000 was raised from the Big Mix event for the vital work of Macmillan, who support cancer sufferers and their families, giving then the strength to get through these hard times. 

ABOUT WEGOTTICKETS
WeGotTickets is the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium sized venues and promoters and currently works with over 4,000 such organisations.

WeGotTickets has made it possible for promoters of all manner of events to benefit from advance ticket sales and now sells more than 750,000 tickets a year for a wide range of events; from art events and underground restaurants, to traditional live music shows. Indeed to cater for the growing demand for comedy tickets the company recently launched WeGotComedy.com, the UK’s only dedicated online ticket portal for comedy events.

Since its launch, WeGotTickets has consistently pushed for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry, with many of the company’s ideas becoming standard industry practice.

The company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business, whilst its pioneering paperless ticketing system has been a major factor in reducing the live music industry’s carbon footprint. The company has also been involved in numerous initiatives to help develop the grassroots live music industry and in 2009 launched an online forum where the company’s clients can network and share resources and knowledge in private.

Over the years WeGotTickets has been proud to work on a number of special campaigns with charities such as Oxjam, Childline, Youth Music and Warchild, and regularly donates a percentage of their booking fees back to these groups. In 2009 the company launched a unique feature allowing ticket buyers to quickly and easily make a donation to a featured charity whilst purchasing tickets.

Started in Oxford in the early noughties, the company was set up as a result of the founders being unable to sell advance tickets for one of their concerts at a venue that lacked a box office. Originally selling through their music merchandise website www.OxfordMusic.net, the WeGotTickets online box office was fully launched in 2002, selling tickets for The Zodiac (now O2 Academy) in Oxford and other venues.