| With the amount of celebrity stars doing their bit for | | | | village or church hall as a base or if it's about school |
| charity, it is a little harder to help a worthy cause when | | | | fundraising speak to the school itself and find out if you |
| you are average Jo Blogs without a huge following of | | | | can have the use of their hall to carry out your |
| fans. To help you develop some ideas I thought I would | | | | fundraising. Obviously if you are going to jump out of |
| put down a few points to help you on the path to | | | | an airplane or run 20 miles it might be useful to have a |
| organising a fundraiser of your own. | | | | base to work out from. |
| Firstly what are you trying to achieve, are you trying to | | | | What are you going to do to raise awareness or fund |
| raise awareness or raise funds. Raising awareness is | | | | raise. There are a few businesses out there that can |
| normally achieved by educating the people that are | | | | help you organise a successful fundraiser. What many |
| your target group this can be done in a number of | | | | of these businesses do is set up an event such as a |
| ways be it leaflets, radio, TV, a thing that you do that | | | | parachute jump or a fashion show fundraiser where |
| causes discussion or has the media showing an | | | | they will tell you exactly what you need to do and |
| interest in covering the specific event or subject. | | | | support you to achieve your goal. |
| Fund raising on the other hand is asking someone to | | | | With parachute jumps this means you can get out |
| part with their money to support your chosen issue, | | | | there and get sponsorship from people for your |
| once again part of this is educating people about what | | | | particular stunt and also means that you might be able |
| your charity is about, but the other part is providing the | | | | to rope in others that want to try a parachute jump for |
| people that are giving you something with something in | | | | more sponsorship. A fashion show fundraiser on the |
| return. Shock, Horror you might initially think but people | | | | other hand you promote by the fact that people can |
| need to go away feeling like they have helped | | | | see clothes worn by your models and then buy at |
| someone or something. If within this you can provide a | | | | knock down prices. A good evening out and clothes |
| person with something that is of interest to them or | | | | shopping at the same time. |
| makes them feel happy all the better. | | | | Whatever you do ensure that you get as much media |
| Once you know what you are trying to achieve think | | | | coverage as you possibly can, before the event, so |
| about where you are going to hold the event. If it is a | | | | that people can see what you are doing, and for who, |
| village hall fundraising event or a church fundraising | | | | so that you can generate as much interest as possible |
| event speak to people in the area about using the | | | | for your fundraising event. |
