Crafting with Kids

With the quantity of celebrity stars doing their piece for charity, it is a bit harder to help a worthy cause when you are an everyday Jo Blogs without a large following of fans. To help you develop some things I thought I would write a few points to help you on the path to setting up a fundraiser of your own.

Firstly what are you trying to achieve, are you wanting to build awareness or raise funds. Raising awareness is normally sorted out by educating the individuals that are your focus area this can be done in several ways be it written information, local radio, TV, an event that you do that promotes discussion or has the media showing an interest in covering the certain event, the internet or organised meetings.

Fund raising on the other hand is appealing to someone to separate with their cash to fund your chosen issue, once again part of this is educating individuals about what your fundraiser is but the other bit is providing the individuals that are giving you something with something in return. Shock, Horror you might initially think but individuals need to go away feeling like they have helped someone or something. If inside this you can present a person with a thing that is of value to them, or makes them feel good, all the better.

Once you know what you are trying to achieve think about where you are going to hold the fundraiser. If it is a village hall fundraising project or a Church fundraising event speak to people in the region about using the village or church hall as a work place or if it’s about School fundraising speak to the school itself and find out if you can have the use of their village hall to carry out your fundraising. On the other hand if you are going to throw yourself out of an airplane or run 20 miles it might be of use to have a base to work out from.

What are you going to do to increase awareness or fund raise. There are a few businesses out there that can assist you in organising a useful fundraiser. What a few of these companies do is set up an event such as a bungee jump or a Fashion show fundraising where they will show you just what you need to do and support you to reach your goal.

With bungee jumps this means you can get out there and get sponsorship from individuals for your particular stunt and also means that you might be able to rope in others that want to attempt a bungee jump for more sponsorship. Whereas a fashion show fundraiser you sell by the fact that individuals can see clothes worn by your models and then purchase them at knock down prices. A good evening out and clothes shopping at the same instance.

Whatever you do ensure that you get as much media coverage as you possibly can, before the event so that individuals can see what you are doing and for who so that you can generate as much interest as possible for your fundraising event.

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