Contribution terms & disclosures

1. Nature of the project and your £1 contribution

The 1 Million Project asks whether one million people will each voluntarily contribute exactly £1. The project is operated independently by an individual in the United Kingdom.

A contribution:

• does not buy goods or services;
• does not give you shares, ownership, voting rights, investment returns, interest or repayment rights;
• does not enter you into a lottery, competition or prize draw;
• does not make you a member or partner of the project; and
• is not represented as a direct charitable donation or Gift Aid payment.

2. Who may contribute?

You must be at least 18 years old and authorised to use the payment method used at checkout. If you are under 18, please do not contribute directly.

3. Fixed amount and one-contribution intention

The public checkout is intended to charge a fixed £1 GBP. The concept is one person, one £1 contribution. Please do not intentionally repeat the checkout to inflate the public counter.

4. Live tracker and supporter numbers

The public counter is based on successful, non-refunded £1 checkout records verified through the project’s payment system. A sequential supporter number is assigned to each verified checkout.

The project does not perform identity verification on contributors, so the tracker should be understood as a count of verified £1 contributions, not a legally verified census of one million unique people. Supporter numbers may have gaps if a contribution is later refunded or otherwise reversed; retired numbers are not promised to be reused.

5. The £500,000 First Mission

The current First Mission consists of intended allocation targets totalling £500,000:

• £50,000 — Medical School Tuition Fees
• £25,000 — Mum’s shoulder treatment
• £50,000 — Parents’ retirement support
• £5,000 — Family holiday
• £10,000 — Car for medical placements
• £25,000 — Alzheimer’s & dementia charity
• £25,000 — Hospice charity
• £25,000 — Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
• £25,000 — Young Carers Charity
• £25,000 — Children’s Hospice
• £50,000 — Scholarship for a Future Doctor
• £25,000 — Disability Accessibility
• £25,000 — Guide Dogs / Assistance Dogs
• £25,000 — Clean Water Projects
• £25,000 — Disaster Relief
• £25,000 — Homelessness
• £25,000 — Domestic Abuse Support
• £25,000 — Animal Rescue & Welfare
• £10,000 — Youth Opportunity Fund

These are targets and intended uses, not guaranteed completion dates. Allocations may happen in stages as sufficient net funds become available.

6. Gross contributions, fees and net available funds

The live “gross contributed” figure represents verified £1 payments before payment-processing fees. Stripe/card-network fees, refunds, disputes, currency-related costs and reasonable unavoidable operating costs reduce the amount that is actually available for allocation.

7. Charity, humanitarian and giving-back goals

The project itself is not a registered charity. Supporters are contributing to the project; the project operator then intends to make the published charitable/humanitarian transfers from net available project funds.

Where a charity or organisation is named, that name describes an intended recipient or cause. No sponsorship, endorsement, partnership or approval by that organisation should be inferred unless explicitly confirmed on the website.

Where a goal currently describes a cause rather than a specific organisation, the intended recipient should be identified publicly before a transfer is made. If a named organisation cannot lawfully or practically receive the planned funds, any proposed replacement should be disclosed publicly before funds are redirected.

The £50,000 Scholarship for a Future Doctor is a giving-back target. Eligibility, selection, safeguarding, conflicts-of-interest and payment arrangements should be published before any scholarship award is made.

8. Evidence and transparency

The project intends to publish meaningful evidence of material allocations and charitable transfers, with sensitive personal information redacted. Evidence may include receipts, transfer confirmations, invoices or other appropriate documents. Public evidence must not expose private medical, identity, bank, student or supporter data.

9. Funds beyond the First Mission

Any intended use of net funds beyond the £500,000 First Mission should be published before those funds are materially allocated. The £1 million headline is the social-experiment target, not a statement that the organiser personally needs £1 million.

10. No Gift Aid or donor tax relief

Your £1 is paid to this personal project, not directly to a registered charity or CASC. The project does not claim Gift Aid on supporter payments, and supporters should not treat the £1 as a Gift Aid donation or assume that it qualifies for charitable tax relief.

11. Refunds and reversals

Refunds are governed by the project’s Refund Policy. If a payment is refunded or reversed, it will no longer count toward the live paid total once the backend processes that change.

12. Payment provider and service availability

Checkout is provided by Stripe. Stripe may decline, delay, review or reverse transactions under its own rules. The project cannot guarantee uninterrupted availability of the website, payment system, database, email service or live tracker.

13. Changes to allocations or these terms

Material changes should be published transparently. The project should not quietly repurpose funds away from a stated cause. If circumstances make a specific allocation impossible or inappropriate, an explanation and revised intended use should be published before the affected funds are redirected where reasonably practicable.

14. Responsibility and applicable law

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any responsibility that cannot lawfully be excluded. These terms are subject to the laws and mandatory rights applicable to the project and supporter in the United Kingdom.

15. Contact

Questions about the project can currently be sent through @the.1millionproject. A dedicated support email should be published before broad public launch.