A page set up to support a teenage racing driver who suffered life changing injuries in a crash has been verified by JustGiving as the fastest growing page in the history of the organisation.
The page set up to support 17-year-old racing driver Billy Monger, who suffered catastrophic injuries in a crash at Donington Park racecourse on Easter Sunday, has now raised over £750,000 since it was launched on the day of the accident.
The appeal raised £500,000 in less than 24 hours, beating its original fundraising target of £260,000 with donations from over 17,000 individuals.
A spokesman from JustGiving said that Monger’s page reached £100,000 in just over three hours after its launch, and reached the half million mark in 22 hours.
Along with being the fastest ever growing JustGiving page, Monger’s appeal also broke the record for the all-time, largest number of concurrent visitors on the digital giving platform’s website. At 10am on 19 April, three days after the page was launched, 9,000 individual users were logged in to Monger’s page.
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A statement on behalf of the Monger family posted on the JustGiving page said: “We are in the process of establishing a Trust to receive, hold, manage and expend funds for Billy’s benefit. In the meantime you can help start the process by donating online. Donations will be used to fund the care, treatments and therapies required by Billy in the immediate future and going forward, helping him to return to a full and active life.”
A spokesman for JustGiving said: “The response to Billy’s JustGiving page has been phenomenal - reaching over half a million in less than 24 hours and now becoming the largest and fastest growing campaign in the site’s history. The racing community has really rallied around to make sure Billy gets all the help he needs to facilitate his recovery. Everyone at JustGiving is pulling for Billy.”
As of the time of publication, Monger’s page has raised £759,517 from 18,077 supporters.
