fundraising

[midcomp]

Hi
Does anyone have any simple ideas for fundraisng please. Looking to raise £2,000 this year. Any ideas would be great.
Thanks...

[squarebear]

Thing is though, they paid Chuck the money to keep his clothes on!

[midcomp]

wow...i wouldnt dare...but might be able to find someone who would. Was it a spur of the moment thing or planned.

[ChuckFickens]

it was planned, ended up with the local MP and reporters from the local paper in the audience, made for an interesting Monday when the paper run the story as I worked for the paper at the time and hadn't told anyone at work I was doing it.

Still £2k raised for retts syndrome association.

[midcomp]

did people pay you to do it then....or an entrance fee?

[mollykins]

I heard that some places let you sky dive for free as long as you can show them that you've be sponsored over a certain amount of money for charity . . . not sure of the companies or the exact amounts but it might be worth looking into.

[ChuckFickens]

some people sponsored us (it was myself and 4 friends in the "line up") and there was also an entrance fee charged to get into the pub that night.

[midcomp]

Morning all...update..raised money with non-uniform day at work, and book stall for donations so far..still a way to go though

[AB Editor]

Non-uniform day? Does this mean you took up Chuck's suggestion?

Spare Ed

[murraymints]

too early for that thought spare ed...MUCH too early...let the old porridge down first...

[midcomp]

Noooo...think we would get closed down..(or maybe extra customers!!!)

[midcomp]

Morning...any more ideas please.....

[midcomp]

Morning ..any more ideas please.....

[mickeymiller]

First of all, congrats on getting your fundraising started! Raising support for a worthy cause can be super rewarding. But obviously, if you're not an official non-profit, it can be really tricky finding a good way to build support for your cause.

One route you might want to consider: setting up a homepage for your group on a fundraising website. Having a group homepage online makes organizing and fundraising infinitely easier ... And though the majority of fundraising sites require you have official non-profit status, many good ones only require that you are a group - and will give you plenty of the tools you need.

For example, one good site is Meet Up (www.meetup.com), who allow you to fundraise directly to your account, and register a group without having an official non-profit status - and they cover groups around the world, while giving you some tools to do event management. But the tools they offer are a little limited outside of fundraising.

Another good option would be Empowered.org (www.empowered.org), a platform that also helps small groups fundraise and organize (regardless of non-profit status). They also work for international groups - and offer a fair amount of useful tools, like the ability to organize your group or to create volunteer activities and fundraising campaigns for more targeted ways to raise support.

Or you could always try to send up your own PayPal account to link to you directly to help you fundraise, but this is a little trickier and a bit inflexible.

Good luck getting started moving forward! Hope that helped.