Supporting Global Penfriends
For 30+ years, Global Penfriends has been proud to offer a free, safe place for people everywhere to find friendship. Many of our members have asked how they might give a little back to the club they love — so here are a few simple ways.
Ways to give back
Upgrade to Premium
The easiest way to support us. You enjoy a richer experience — more conversations and friendship features — and your subscription helps keep the club running for everyone.
Make a one-off gift
Prefer to give a single gift rather than a subscription? A one-off gift is warmly welcomed, and goes straight towards the work below.
Spread the word
Not every way of giving back costs money. Simply telling friends and family about Global Penfriends helps us connect more people — and grow a kinder, more socially responsible community across the world.
Where your support goes
Every gift, large or small, goes towards something close to our hearts: giving the full Premium experience to members — both children and adults — who reflect the very best values of our penpalling community: kindness, genuine friendship and care for others.
These members are chosen by the Global Penfriends team alone, and always anonymously. Donors never choose, contact, or learn the identity of anyone who benefits — we simply pass your kindness on, quietly, to a penpal who will truly treasure it.
It is a lovely thought: that your generosity becomes another member’s brighter experience of friendship across the world.
With heartfelt thanks
To every member and supporter who has been part of Global Penfriends over the past 30+ years — thank you. Your subscriptions and donations are what keep this community alive.
Every fee and every donation goes towards the same purpose: providing a safe, welcoming and carefully moderated platform, and promoting genuine friendship and cultural exchange between people of all ages, right across the world.