Fundraising

[Nosy Rosy]

I have just lost my best friend to Breast Cancer; I would now like to do some fundraising for Breast Cancer Charities & Local Hospices - does anyone have any ideas on how I can do some fundraising on a small scale please?

[nat_84]

Go to this page..

http://www.justgiving.com/

You can set up an online fundraising page for free - brilliant and easy way for people to sponsor you.

I recently ran 'Race for Life' for Cancer and have so far raised �135 - all through the internet website i created - so it does work.

There is also a forum on that site where people will share ideas with you.

Sorry to hear about your sad news and good luck fundraising.x

[Nosy Rosy]

Thanks for your help....and your kind words.

[B00]

Ahhhh, glad to see you've managed to submit your post rosy

sorry about your loss too, good luck with your fundraising :-)

[Nosy Rosy]

Thanks...and your response in AB Suggestions made me smile..thanks for that too!

[debbz1969]

Sorry for your loss Rosy.. It's great that you're doing something positive at this dreadful time. Good on ya..
A couple of ideas.. Selling stuff on ebay and donating the money to Charities is a simple way of raising money.
Also you could arrange a Charity night at your local pub or club. Contact a local entertainment agency to see if any of their acts would be prepared to do a stint for expenses only, believe me the if they think it will mean some publicity they'll do it. Run a raffle and perhaps a bingo session. Ask for donations from local businesses and shops for prizes. We arranged one a couple of years ago and raised over �500. Its also a great way for the family and friends give a tribute to a wonderful person. Good luck.. Let us know how you get on.

[naz_nomad]

try this ...

http://www.thehopfarm.co.uk/site/printevent.as p?ttid=111

My fiancee did this last year, raised money, and had a good day out to...

[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.