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Fundraising ideas
Here are just a few ideas for ways you as an individual or with your community can help to raise funds for Cecily's Fund and have a great time with your friends, colleagues and family in the process. For lots more ideas download our ABC of Ways to Help Cecily's Fund.
For ideas on how your school or company can help please follow the links on the left.
If you have organised an event for Cecily's Fund and want to share it, or advertise it, on the website - or to discuss your ideas please contact us.
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Important fundraising dates coming up
- New Year's Resolutions - January Put those good intentions to get healthy for the New Year into action and get some extra motivation by asking friends and family to sponsor you a £ (or more) for every lb you lose! (Please check with your GP and diet sensibly). Our Communications Officer, Sabita, plans to lose a sponsored stone! >>more information
- Mothering Sunday - 14th March What better gift for a mother than the gift of life and hope for a Zambian child who has lost his or her own mother or father? Visit our on-line shop to order your gift cards and find out how much further your money will stretch in Zambia.
- World AIDS Orphans Day - 7th May Do something on this day to celebrate the amazing courage and resilience of the tens of thousands of children all over the world who have lost their parents to AIDS. You can read the story of some of them on our Stories from Zambia page or watch our video. We hope to hold events in the UK, the USA, Switzerland and Zambia to mark the day.
- Your birthday, anniversary, wedding or other special occasion! see below how you can make this into a really special occasion by using it as an opportunity to raise funds for Cecily's Fund.
FEED THEIR MINDS, FUND THEIR FUTURES
This year we are inviting you to raise funds through FOOD to help educate Zambian orphans.
We anticipate a plethora of cake sales, teddy bears’ picnics, dinner parties and more. Schools could try sponsored skip-a-snack days or eating a Zambian orphan’s typical diet for a day and donating lunch money.
>>For more information, ideas and resources on Feed their Minds, Fund Their Futures
MAKE MUSIC GIVE HOPE
Help us reach our target of raising £50,000 through musical events! Throw a party, give a concert, busk, organise a musical pub quiz, hold a sale of donated CDs, hire the village hall and show a musical movie - there are lots of ways to make music give hope ~ you don't have to be musical! For more ideas and resources go to our Make Music Give Hope
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SPECIAL OCCASIONS
To receive is to give...
If you have a special occasion coming up -a significant birthday or anniversary, a wedding or a Christening, or even if you are about to change jobs - you could make the occasion really special by asking friends and family for donations to Cecily's Fund instead of gifts.
A supporter in Switzerland recently raised nearly £1,000 for Cecily's Fund on his 50th birthday - that's enough to train four peer health edcators and support each of them to run 6 months of life-saving HIV workshops for hundreds of school children.
You can arrange for donations in lieu of gifts in a variety of simple ways;
- Set up an online sponsorship page. You can specify what kind of occasion it is and email friends and family directly to tell them your idea. Your friends' donations will come direct to Cecily's Fund and they can leave a message for you on the page.
- Ask friends and family to buy you Cecily's Fund gift cards through this website, or by sending a cheque to the address below and a note to explain what it is for.
- Throw a party and have a collection.
You may also like to consider indicating in your will that you would like donations to be made to Cecily's Fund in your memory.
Party plus...
Add an extra dimension to your birthday or anniversary party, and raise more funds for deprived orphans; make it fancy dress, have a theme - how about an African theme? - have a karaoke competition or include an auction or raffle (please contact us for advice on the laws covering raffles)
Auctions can be great fun as people compete with each other to win that must-have item. As part of a fundraising day for Cecily's Fund, a school once auctioned a date with the dishy PE teacher which attracted a lot of bids from other teachers!
Ask friends and local businesses to donate items, 'experiences' or services - an hour's gardening, a dinner party cooked in your own home, use of a second home for a week, a guitar lesson.... You could even ask the boss to offer a day off from work! Have a look at the party ideas on our Make Music Give Hope page.
Get Sponsored
Celebrate your special occasion by doing something unusual and being sponsored for it. Below are ideas for sponsored walks, runs etc. But if you're not sporty, you can ask people to sponsor you for almost anything, as long as it's a bit of a challenge and a bit different.
Cecily's Fund Communications Officer, Sabita, raised £600 when she did a sponsored walk from Oxford to New Yatt to mark her departure from her last job to join Cecily's Fund! But some of the non-sporty things people have been sponsored for;
- Piano practice - a music teacher has asked her pupils to get sponsored for each hour of practice towards their exams.
- Watching telly - Cecily's Fund Fundraising Administrator, Julie, once got sponsored for watching Emerdale for 24 hours as part of an ITV telly-thon!
- Hair - cutting it all off, shaving your head, waxing your legs (areyou brave enough, boys?).
- Knitting - Kennington Overseas Aid organised a sponsored knit.
- Sitting in a bath of baked beans!
- Singing or dancing (this could be part of our Make Music Give Hope fundraising campaign)
- Silence - can you go a whole day without saying a word?!
- Losing weight - pound for pound, what you lose, orphans gain! But do diet responsibly and healthily. Get advice from your GP if you are not sure how.
See below for some easy options for gathering sponsorship.
GET ACTVE...
Sponsored Activities
Sponsored walks, bike rides, runs, swims and climbs are fun, keep you fit and can raise lots of money.
You can set up your own personal Cecily's Fund fundraising webpage to gather sponsorship online from friends, family and colleagues. If you are fundraising in the USA, you can use www.firstgiving.com, a simple and efficient way to raise money online.
If you would like to use a traditional paper sponsorship form too, click here to download one. We also have some general tips on how to maximise your sponsorship - click here to see them.
Many companies have a matched giving scheme for employees, which can increase your sponsorship total considerably - check with your HR department if your employer runs one. If not ask them to contact us for advice on how to set one up.
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RUNNING EVENTS
Whatever your running experience or preferred distance, please run for us and raise money for orphaned and vulnerable children in Zambia.
We currently have guaranteed places available on the 2010 British London 10K Run, the 2010 London Marathon and Brighton Marathon. If you fancy doing a different event see a selection of running events that you could enter as an individual or perhaps as a corporate team. We are on hand to help with fundraising tips and to answer your questions.
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PARACHUTE JUMPS
Take on the challenge of a lifetime and do a jump for Cecily's Fund. Jumps can be organised at one of many clubs nationwide and take place throughout the year. Find out more
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UK AND OVERSEAS ADVENTURE CHALLENGES
Cecily's Fund has teamed up with an events company to offer supporters the chance to participate in some challenges of a lifetime. Take a look at our fundraising challenges page for more information.
There are cycling, hiking and horse trekking challenges available, in a wide variety of locations.
If you fancy walking the Inca Trail in Peru, trekking to Everest Base Camp in Nepal or cycling from London to Paris, then please ask us for more information.
Three of our supporters raised £6,000 recently by cycling around Cuba. If you'd like to find out more, have a look at their entertaining trip diary.
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BE INSPIRED
...by fellow Cecily's Fund supporters
Supporters all over Britain, Switzerland, the USA and beyond continuously come up with amazing ideas for raising funds for Cecily's Fund. For example, Peter Clifton who organises Poems in a Pub evenings - he has written a How to Guide for anyone who'd like to do the same. Have a look at our Events Diary for more inspiration!
Many of our supporters set up online giving pages to enable their sponsors to donate by credit or debit card. Find out who's doing what.
You could also check out the Ideas Fundraising website for more ideas and tips on running fundraising events.
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