July 2023 Fundraising Ideas

It can be much more fun to arrange something that everyone can enjoy while raising the money you need to help people with cancer!

Family Fun Day

For a fun way to raise funds, get together with your team and friends to organise a Family Fun Day. You will need a large venue which might include a large field or garden. Alternatively, you might like to seek permission from the local council to use the local park or village green.

Organise children’s races including egg and spoon, sack race and the three-legged race with small prizes for the winner.

Refreshments can be served for a profit including tea, coffee, and cold drinks. Bake and sell cakes and confectionary on a cake stall. Delicious slices of cake can be sold for £2.50 a slice!

Ask your friends to help you set up stalls which could include a raffle, tombola, pick-a-straw, or bric-a-brac. Alternatively, you might like to contact stallholders from stallholder.com

Summer Holiday Services

Summer holidays are fast approaching, with all the challenges that come with leaving your home for a short period of time. You can use this opportunity to increase the donations on your fundraising page.

How about suggesting to your neighbours that you are available to help them with watering their gardens; pots and hanging baskets need daily watering, especially during a heatwave. Then there are opportunities such as housesitting, feeding the cats, checking the fish, opening and closing the curtains, and checking in on elderly relatives left at home... the ideas are endless. You might even be able to offer a taxi service to the airport to make departure a bit easier... all for a donation of course!

Update your fundraising page

Use your training plan together with your fundraising page to get the news out there! Take photos of your training walks... the views, your companions, the birds and animals you meet, the mud... the choice is yours! Then log on to your fundraising page with your email address and order number, click on ‘Write an update’ under the Fundraising Updates section, and you will be able to upload your photos and write about your walks.

Then share your page with everyone you know via Facebook, Email, and Twitter, the choice is yours! Your friends will be able to come on your journey with you, and if they decide to sponsor you too, that’s a bonus! If they do, don’t forget to say thank you!

National Give Something Away Day!

It’s National Give Something Away Day on Saturday 15^th! This is a great opportunity to feed your fundraising page!

Every family needs some entertainment over the summer, so what better time for you to get together and tackle that long awaited declutter? It’s so much more fun identifying what you haven’t used for a couple of years when there is a second opinion available to agree or disagree with your reason for keeping once treasured and maybe sentimental items. If it doesn’t fit or you haven’t worn it for over a year... you are probably not going to wear it again, so it’s time to find it a new home where someone will appreciate it!

When you‘ve turned out even the remotest cupboard... and have piles of items all around you blocking your exits, now organise a garden or garage giveaway! Invite your friends round for National Give Something Away Day... charge an entry fee and ask for donations for refreshments, while bringing joy and positivity into your friends’ lives by inviting them to take their pick from your once loved ‘stuff!’

 Anyone for a Gin Tasting?

Gins flavoured with ripe fruit, botanical blends and warm spice are the hipster drinks for today and are perfect for a sizzling summer night!

Why not organise a gin-tasting evening to raise funds?

My personal favourites are; Lemon Drizzle, Blood Orange and Chocolate, Cherry and Raspberry.

Are you bored with garnishing your gin with the same old lemon and cucumber slices? Try jazzing up your drink with black peppercorns, ripe strawberries, rosemary, edible flowers, basil and lemon grass. 

For a pink party:

Sell tickets to the girls for a pink party serving pink cocktails. For a stunning flavoured pink gin spritz cocktail, place 2-3 ice cubes in a champagne flute. Combine rhubarb and raspberry gin with prosecco and garnish with fresh raspberries and a sprig of mint!

Chin, Chin!

Email Strapline

Need an innovative new way to approach your friends and family for sponsorship, are you embarrassed to keep asking for money?  One of our lovely walkers came up with this idea!

Remember the phrase - if you don’t ask you don’t get? Just add a cheeky signoff at the bottom of your emails in the run up to your challenge – just copy and paste the link to your Walk the Walk fundraising page with a short and snappy message saying what you are doing and why. Adding a countdown will make it more urgent!

It raises awareness of the importance of what you are doing for men and women with breast and other cancers as well as raising much needed sponsorship! 

People who’ve tried it tell us it really works!

 If you have a fundraising event or activity planned, take a look at our extra bits and pieces to help you... if we can help in any way, please do get in touch!

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