Contribution terms & disclosures
The important rules behind the £1 experiment, written in plain English.
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 £1 Million Mission
The current Mission accounts for the full £1,000,000 gross contribution target:
- £50,000 — Medical School Tuition Fees
- £25,000 — Mum’s shoulder treatment
- £50,000 — Scholarship for a Future Doctor
- £50,000 — Essential Medical Supplies
- £50,000 — Patient Treatment & Travel Support
- £50,000 — Community CPR & Defibrillator Access
- £50,000 — Maternal & Newborn Healthcare
- £50,000 — Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support
- £50,000 — Hospice Care
- £50,000 — Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders
- £50,000 — Young Carers Support
- £50,000 — Children’s Hospice Care
- £50,000 — Disability Accessibility
- £50,000 — Homelessness Support
- £50,000 — Domestic Abuse Support
- £50,000 — Youth Opportunity Fund
- £50,000 — Guide & Assistance Dogs
- £50,000 — Clean Water Projects
- £50,000 — Disaster Relief
- £50,000 — Animal Rescue & Welfare
- Up to £25,000 — Payment-processing fees
The published allocations total £975,000, with up to £25,000 budgeted for payment processing. These are intended targets, not guaranteed completion dates. Allocations may happen in stages as sufficient funds become available and in accordance with the project’s published partial-funding rules.
6. Gross contributions, fees and available funds
The live “gross contributed” figure represents verified £1 payments before payment-processing fees. Refunded or reversed contributions should no longer count toward the verified total once processed by the backend.
Any unused part of the processing budget remains within the published Mission and its final use should be disclosed. If the selected payment arrangement is expected to exceed the £25,000 budget, the allocation plan should be revised publicly before launch. Other operating costs are not included in the current Mission table and should not be deducted from it without a transparent published amendment.
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. One Mission and no unallocated second half
The experiment and the Mission use the same £1 million gross target. There is no smaller preliminary stage and no undefined second half within the current target. Any later campaign, extension or additional mission would require a separate public plan before new funds were sought or allocated for that purpose.
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 be sent to contact@the1millionproject.co.uk. You can also message @the.1millionproject on Instagram for general enquiries.