eSIM Go's platform is what lets Tekmoni turn an idea for a community MVNO into a live product again and again – reliable, flexible infrastructure we can build directly into whatever we're launching next, so we're never starting from scratch or reinventing the wheel.
Kim Craven, CEO, Tekmoni
Tekmoni launched its latest UK MVNO – MyCharity Mobile – in August 2026, running on eSIM Go's platform for UK mobile plans.
The challenge
Charities face an intractable fundraising problem: getting more of their supporters’ finite disposable income. Existing supporters of a charity are already bought-in to the goals and programmes it wants to pursue. Whether an occasional donation or regular monthly payment, getting new money from them is a question of affordability rather than whether the cause is worthwhile. And fundraisers must be cautious to avoid fatiguing their benefactors with a constant stream of asks.
But what if you could get a slice of payments that supporters already make? Everyone has a mobile, which means most if not all of a charity’s supporters already pay a mobile bill every month. Enabling charities to become MVNOs could be gamechanging, but the model would have to be justifiable at any scale. It would also need to be extremely easy and risk-free for charities to get involved and be successful for zero investment – a very challenging prospect given the operational challenges and costs typically associated with delivering mobile services.
This was the concept that Tekmoni set out to put into action – a shared MVNO engine serving up top quality UK mobile plans for any charity to offer its own supporters directly, and be successful with just one subscriber or many thousands – with all the costs and operational support undertaken by the MyCharity Mobile team.
The solution
Tekmoni chose to repeat its use of the eSIM Go platform with MyCharity Mobile, its second MVNO launch of 2026. This time, it would deliver on Tekmoni’s vision of a multi-party MVNE model to carry the same high quality UK mobile plans for different charity brands. Unlike Biker Mobile – Tekmoni’s earlier proof-of-concept MVNO for UK motorcyclists – every charity partner involved in MyCharity Mobile is a distribution channel in its own right, marketing the plan directly to supporters who already trust them.
eSIM Go’s platform handles billing, eSIM provisioning and customer care, so a partner like Tekmoni can launch a fully branded UK mobile plan in weeks rather than years, with no stack to build and no eSIM Go logo anywhere in sight. It's proven at scale too, with eSIM Go underpinning more than 50 UK MVNO brands that cover a wide range of market strategies and audience profiles. At the charity level, Tekmoni can add a new brand to its MyCharity Mobile MVNO in a matter of hours.
A level playing field
Running a mobile network needs volume: enough subscribers to make the mobile plans, billing and support capability work commercially. That threshold is historically what has kept mobile fundraising off-limits to all but the very largest causes.
Today, the barriers to entry are much lower because of platforms like eSIM Go. But there are still investments necessary, albeit modest, in operational, technical and regulatory setup. A national charity on its own might, in theory, absorb the cost of doing that. A local hospice or a niche charity never could.
MyCharity Mobile removes that obstacle and takes cost, risk and difficulty away entirely. It works like a co-operative of causes: instead of every charity needing its own scale, they all pool their supporters under one shared umbrella brand, and each draws on infrastructure none of them could justify alone. The qualifying question stops being 'can you run a mobile network' and becomes simply 'do you have supporters'. A charity with 200 supporters gets the same network quality, billing and donation mechanics as one with 200,000.
ME Research UK, The Brain Charity and Children’s Hospice South West are among the charities already signed up and adding supporters to MyCharity Mobile plans.
How it works
Charity partners. Onboarded free, MyCharity Mobile charity partners are provided with ready-built UK mobile plans to market to their own supporters. 15% of every £1 a subscriber spends goes straight to that charity, at no extra cost to the subscriber and minimal admin for the charity beyond promoting the fundraising mobile service to their supporters through their existing channels.
Charity employees. For mobiles provided by charity partners to their staff, MyCharity Mobile also makes an unlimited UK plan available at a special rate, helping drive down their operational costs.
Business supporters and other groups. A lightweight business portal lets charity staff and local partners buy or refer plans for their own teams. It can also be provided to organisations with corporate fundraising targets wishing to support specific charities by redirecting spend on their mobile fleet.
Individual subscribers. Anyone can sign up directly with MyCharity Mobile and nominate a charity of their own; those donations pool into a shared fund, split quarterly.
A potential stepping stone for sole MVNO status
The same logic that makes the shared nature of MyCharity Mobile sensible for most charities – not enough volume alone to justify a standalone network – could, in principle, run the other way. For a charity partner whose supporter base grows large enough, Tekmoni can stand up a distinct, fully branded MVNO on eSIM Go's platform; nothing structurally stops that becoming a route for a breakout charity partner to move from a co-branded slot inside MyCharity Mobile to a mobile brand of its own.
We're thrilled to welcome MyCharity Mobile as our second Tekmoni MVNO launch of 2026. It chimes with the Tekmoni model of community-led MVNO brands that democratise the market by removing traditional barriers to entry. In this case it's charities, of any size, gaining a passive, recurring revenue stream that, until now, hasn't been accessible without significant technical difficulty and cost.
Zacc Couldrick, CEO, eSIM Go