• • Fundraising page

  • Streaming/Meeting App

  • Live Streaming

  • Social media

Click here to see our suggested platforms.

You may want to share ideas, have a particular challenge or encourage volunteers to think of their own sponsored challenge!

Here are some ideas:

Give Up something for a week

Timed activity, e.g. learning to complete a rubix cube in 60 seconds

Shaving your head & live streaming the shave

Sponsored silence

Water bucket challenge

Reading a certain book or set of books

Chilli Challenge

Onion Challenge

Shaving foam pie challenge

Fitness challenge

Sponsored ingredients milkshake

If you can’t decide, you could even put a poll to your friends or followers to decide! This will ensure they support you too.

The actual sponsored activity can take place any time around Charity Week, with the fundraising page running til the banking deadline.

You may wish to share updates on your preparation towards the activity and also when you do the sponsored activity on social media, either via posts but also live streaming.

When choosing a fundraising target, remember this doesn’t need to reflect the event or challenge and you’re raising for a worthy cause!

We find targets between £/€/$100-250 or R2500 or QAR500 work best! But you may choose to go for more too.

Once you have decided a target, set up your fundraising page.

Be as creative as possible, consider making videos, cool posters and social media graphics. You need to get as much attention to get people to your fundraising page.

These are three top ways we feel a participant can fundraise:

- Firstly, have an ask. If your target is £250, ask for 10 people to donate £25 or 25 to donate £10! Simply saying donate, means you tend to get lesser amounts, and there's no harm in asking! More often than not, people will donate at your ask amount.

- Share. Share. Share. Utilise all your Social Media platforms to get the word out. Share why you're doing this challenge, how you're feeling about it, what it means to you. When using Whatsapp and text messages, don't always broadcast messages, even better don't broadcast at all, as these can be missed. Send direct, personal messages for a better response.

- Arguably the most important, the projects. Share information about the projects that we hope to fund, and why they're so important.

A TOP TIP is as the sponsored activity gets closer, share how much is left to reach the target.

Keep an eye on the fundraising page, provide updates and adjust your target if you reach it, and want to raise more.

This is a great opportunity to reflect on the experience, whether straight after or the day after, but don't forget to thank everyone who supported! And share the results of what you did!

The sponsored activity has been fun, but there's a cause to support. This is the time to take those last opportunities to motivate those who haven't yet hit their target to make some last tries to share their page, and how the challenge went.

There are always hiccups or lessons that we learn, but do we make sure that the team next year will learn from these? Use our template event planning document to keep a record of how you put on your event and also any feedback to pass onto next year's team!