Raise funds, have fun, meet new people, do something wonderful today
Much of our income comes from donations through fund-raisers like you! Every donation – no matter how big or small – makes a difference especially as we have lower overheads working from home and being volunteers with no large salaries to pay out.. Here are just a few examples of what your fundraising efforts could buy:
£2 | buys paper and pencils for a schoolchild living in a shanty town to be able to do homework |
£5 | will buy a spade or a hoe for a family toplant food or for a gardener to find work outside the shanty town |
£10 | supplies a rural mountain child with basic school equipment s/he needs for a year |
£20 | buys 2 fruit trees to provide vitamins for children living in rural mountain schools without proper nourishment. |
£50 | buys a bicycle so that a shanty or rural mountain dweller can get to and go and find work |
£200 | will set up a kindergarten or library with toys, tables, chairs, books and materials in an area that has nothing like this. Or it will buy two sewing machines for women with HIV to be able to make clothes to sell and make a living. |
£500 | will buy an industrial sewing machine to teach sewing skills at a project. will buy a water harvesting tank for a school that currently uses rainwater for hand washing and cooking. |
Fundraising Tips
Hold a fundraising event for us and raise money online via Go Fund Me www.gofundme.com
Start your campaign
- Set your fundraising goal
- Tell your story
- Add a picture or video
Share with family and friends
- Send emails
- Send text messages
- Share on social media
Manage donations
- Accept donations
- Thank donors
- Withdraw funds
ALL OF THE ABOVE CAN BE DONE VIA THE GO FUND ME SITE.
- Be creative - think of fun things to do and the best time to do it
- Plan ahead and break your organisation into bits with different activities you can arrange easily
- Check if there are other major activities on at the same time so you can avoid them
- Pick the best place for your event
- Use social networking sites to get your event out
- Use posters and handouts
- Check with the local press, radio and tv
- Check with the police and local authority if in public
- Try to raise at least 3x what you spend
- Try to be “Green” in what you do
