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Adopt a Charity helps societies and individuals fundraise for charities of their choice through Sheffield Students' Union.
Societies and clubs are able to claim back 45% of money raised for themselves. We recently introduced a self-fundraising scheme to help student groups fund bigger events or necessary purchases, like expensive equipment, larger charity events, or even 24-hour musicals.
If you are a society that would like to raise funds with the help of Sheffield RAG, Adopt a Charity is the first point of contact.
What can I do with Adopt a Charity?
What can I do with Adopt a Charity?
The Adopt-a-Charity scheme helps provide resources and support to clubs and societies that are part of Sheffield Students' Union.
We can provide you with fundraising pages, online fundraising, health & safety, permits and more. We also help with room bookings, ticket creation and resources (think glitter and raffle tickets)!
We will donate the money to your chosen charity for you. Our process follows strict charity and fundraising law, ensuring charities receive the correct amounts, under proper process, in good time.
Our support ranges anywhere from a bake sale to a charity hike to a bar crawl glitter stand. We try to support any idea a society has, no matter how big, small or wacky!
How do I get involved?
How do I get involved?
Read below and then fill out this form.
As we are a small team, we need 2 weeks notice for regular events, and over 4 weeks for larger scale events.
We are not always able to support every event. We will always attempt to reschedule your event if this is the case.
What is claim back?
What is claim back?
AAC offers a claim back scheme where clubs/societies can "claim back" up to 45% of the money they raise. A good way to think of this is that you are fundraising for yourselves as well as your chosen charity, and we strongly advise you to advertise this to provide full transparency to any donors. This money is transferred into your society account for the next year unless requested earlier.
We do also offer reimbursements; so if you were to pay for any costs to put on your fundraiser i.e. ingredient costs etc. We will reimburse you those exact costs from the money raised once you provide a receipt of purchase. This is different because you aren't making any profit for yourselves, you are just covering the cost of putting on the event.
When do you donate the money?
When do you donate the money?
Money is donated at the end of each term. Usually in January, April and July. This will differ year-by-year. All charities will recieve funds by August of the academic year.
I have more questions!
I have more questions!
If you have any questions, please email: adoptacharity@sheffield.ac.uk
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