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Advice on how to raise lots of cash for FLM for charity please!!
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Please can any of you help me in my efforts to raise lots of cash.I need to raise £1500 for the meningitis Trust as have a gold bond place and I want to raise money for Naomi House childrens hospice where I work but I have only ever managed to raise £250.00 for charity before.
I have tried all the big banks and stores for donations but no-one seems to be able to help me.Where am I going wrong? Unfortunately I do not have rich contacts!
I am getting really worried about having to fork out the cash myself!
Anyone with experience of fundraising,please help me with any companies etc that help with charities?
I have tried all the big banks and stores for donations but no-one seems to be able to help me.Where am I going wrong? Unfortunately I do not have rich contacts!
I am getting really worried about having to fork out the cash myself!
Anyone with experience of fundraising,please help me with any companies etc that help with charities?
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Rich contacts are good (a friend of a friend works in the city and got the £1500 from six workmates!), but not essential, it just means more work which is probably the last thing you need while trying to train. Here's a few suggestions:
1) Contact the local press
2) Keep going contacting local firms, shops etc. Tell them you're going to contact the press, and will mention them
3) Do a web page at www.justgiving.com (link from London Marathon web site
4) Don't only go round in person, recruit a network of friends to fund raise for you
5) Contact local schools etc
6) Posters at work if you're allowed, also try local gyms
7) Make sure you use Gift Aid - it gets you an extra 28% - the MT should have explained this.
Hope that helps, and best of luck with it :-)
At least it doesn't for the charity I'm running for and I'm sure they'll all be the same.
All the same - please do it - you'll then have £1500 plus an extra 28%, which I'm sure the charity will be grateful for!
Are they providing you with any posters, leaflets etc?
Luckily or unlucky as the case may be my daughter had the disease so I can speak about it till the cows come home which helps!
Shame about the 28%!
I think that you that have to annoy people continuosly to get the cash ! also make sure you try and get it as you go along0 don`t leave it til after the race to start collecting the money! If your daughter had meningitis then this I am sure would help your efforts as people will be more willing to help out knowing its affected you personally. Local press coverage of this including a bit about meningitis awareness might be a very fruitful step.......
I have to raise 1000 so not so much but same basic approach. i am doing for Ectopic Trust as my wife was seriouslt ill with ectopic preg this year- IN the end i will have to pay if i don`t get the target but will be worth it anyway if i have to ! good luck...
depending on where you work, you could organise a silly tie & socks day. Collegues pay anything from 50p to £1 for the joy of looking silly! This was done at my place of work and was good fun, plus making quite a bit of money.
Good luck!
my local pub (ok 2 local pubs - i am a VERY social runner!) is doing a "keep the change" night where drinkers can round up to the nearest quid; don't know how much we'll get but not too difficult to organise. we'll also do a pubquiz or 2, and a mate is a guitarist so he'll do an acoustic night for free for us; at a quid a go, we might get another 50 quid.
also on yr justgiving website make sure the end bit is memorable, eg justgiving.com/DebsDoingLondon or something like that. when u stick up posters at work, leave tear-off strips so people don't forget the web address
in terms of getting flyers out to lots of people, why not ask your local pizza delivery if their guys could deliver them when they deliver pizzas or menus ? might be worth a go!
couple of years ago, my local photo shop sponsored 50 quid in return for having their logo on my vest - and did the printing too!
Final thought; try all the investment banks and brokers in the City as well as UK clearing banks via their corporate communications/PR depts.
Good luck
There's another older thread here you might have seen Debs (so apologies if you have) with more fundraising ideas from me and lots of other too.
All the best
Free sponsorship webpages for the London Marathon.
Smaller shops and local stall holders in our town have been very generous and un expectedly open to offer good wishes and support.
The biggest surprise has been the big stores for e.g our local Tesco where we have actually spent £1000.00's wouldn't offer us anything except a £5.00 voucher!!! I know they get asked all the time by local groups etc I am well aware of all their arguments of defence but as a person who has worked in retail marketing I also know that they could have done so much more without it hurting profit margins or setting dangerous presidents!
Very sad when a local plant lady in our market didn't even want to know who the charity was just said here's £10.00 very best of luck! Its this kind of lovely attitude that makes us want to run the marathon in the first place because we know just a few generous individuals can make a big difference to a good cause.
Anyhow, Ive taken off my Victor Meldrew cap now and the real reason I wanted to write was to help with ideas on fund raising.
We are doing our own prize draw and have asked local shops and business's etc if they can't give us cash maybe they might donate a prize? this has worked well. When we ask people to sponsor us we can add incentive to their decision by telling them of all the prizes they could win!!! Most people are brilliant but when I have met a few that start asking what's it for? when are you running? who are you running for? when will I have to pay?...then I tell them about the prize draw and it is a good clincher! There are some tight wads out there like the man who has sponsored us 50p FOR THE WHOLE MARATHON!!!! Now you know why I said it has been surprising.
Hope this might help anyone who like us have quite alot of cash still to raise. Good luck everyone. Happy running!
I am going to do a big dinner dance and raffle and get loads of people to take sponser forms!
Think this should do it.
Thank you all very much - gave me lots of enthusiasm and I still look at this thread when I need a boost!
Good luck everyone else raising money.
I may have been lucky but I was able to raise £1,200 or so just through straightforward sponsorship, and didn't need to do anything more imaginative. Good luck!
Perhaps they can get their companies involved or can push round sponsorship forms (paper or online) at work.
Also some of them may be able to get hold of items that you can raffle and you might be able to split the proceeds at a local raffle if you can get a really good prize.
Free sponsorship webpages for the London Marathon.
Why not organise a dinner/dance.Many people offer venues for free I have found if you pay for food..Obviously you'd need to charge entry to cover food and entertainment but if you had a good raffle with donated prizes you'd make quite a bit and at least you'd know most people coming so wouldn't need to pay security!
You might also want to look at a whole cornucopia of A-Z ideas from the charity challenge website.
Youngest Daughter works for the IR so hopefully she will fund raise there. Will let you know how things go.
You can even run two simultaneously, one on your gun time, the other on your chip time.