Raising Funds

Raising Funds

Raising funds towards the trip cost is a key element of your personal development, and comes with a great sense of achievement! We have extensive experience in helping school teams across the UK raise funds effectively for trips.

Apart from raising cash for your trip, this will give you increased self-confidence, develop your life-skills in: budgeting, creativity, independence and entrepreneurship – great for university and your careers.

We provide:

  • 1-2 fundraising workshops for you and your team
  • Regular online fundraising webinars with our partners at easyfundraising
  • An 18 page fundraising guide packed with ideas, plans and resources to get you started.

1. Trip Launch

Your presentation will cover what individual and team activities can be set-up, with detailed advice in the parents’ pack, and in our new Fundraising Guide, which you’ll gain access to once you sign up to your trip. We offer a flexible payment plan. Payments can be tailor-made for you, helping every family to access our programme.

2. Fundraising workshop – Set Targets

We will provide a fundraising workshop at your school, and webinars with our partners at easyfundraising. We will help you set realistic targets and identify individual and team activities with the maximum financial return. This will become your tailored Raising Funds Plan.

3. Activate Plan

The team meets to start activities. Watch your financial contributions build up towards your savings goals! Register to collect free funds shopping online with Easyfundraising: https://global-action.easyfundraising.org.uk/  It takes 2 minutes and it’s completely free!

4. Achieve!

Reach your savings targets, pack your bags and off you go!

Getting Started

Here’s our five step plan to getting started:

  1.  Set a target! Are you aiming to raise the whole amount yourself, or part of this cost?
  2. Break down your target into milestones – base this around monthly or termly targets, or think about when you can dedicate the most time to it – especially over summer holidays
  3. Make a mind map of your network, and the different ways in which they might be able to help you – and how you might be able to help them!
  4. Put together the plan to reach your target – use the Global Action Fundraising Planner from your fundraising pack.
  5. Pick your first event and get planning! Once you have your first contribution, reaching your target will feel much more achievable.

Your fundraising will probably be split between individual fundraising and team fundraising – we’ve included some ideas below to get you thinking…

Individual

  • Selling items on eBay: – declutter the house or garage, with those unwanted items you, your siblings and parents don’t want, and sell them on e-bay…Parents, it is brilliant as you can get rid of all that clutter in the house, and your son/daughter can do it to raise funds towards their trip..
  • Easyfundraising- to get contributions towards your trip from internet shopping. Piers, one of our students who came with us to Nepal recently, raised £1,012 towards his trip from easyfundraising
  • Part-time job during the holidays – especially the summer holidays when you have 6 -8 weeks off, our students get:
    • Informal jobs in your village / local community: babysitting, gardening, car washing, dog-walking, sports coaching
    • Formal jobs: in shops, café’s and restaurants, supermarkets, office work
  • Writing to your local Rotary and Lions Club – to ask for a grant towards your trip, or writing to a local company your parents may know, who may be happy to support you. We will email you letter to tailor to your local charity chairperson, all you need to do is to edit it and send it off. Be prepared to present to the charity members on your return.. most of our students raise £150 – £400 from this.
  • Sponsored event
  • Selling art and crafts

Easyfundraising

We’ve partnered with the UK’s leading online shopping fundraising service, easyfundraising, to give you access to an unlimited source of funding towards your trip. Every time you buy something online, from fashion to fast food, go to easyfundraising.org first to find the retailer you want. There’s over 7,500 to choose from including: Amazon, eBay, Asos, Just Eat and Booking.com.

easyfundraising direct you to the retailer’s website and, when you check out, you get a percentage of what you spend back as a donation to your trip – and it doesn’t cost you a penny extra!  It really is as easy as 1,2,3…..

 

Sign up at https://global-action.easyfundraising.org.uk

Team Fundraising

  • School event – film night, disco, battle of the bands
  • Parents evening refreshments
  • Christmas stall
  • Raffle or auction of promises
  • Quiz night