Cancer Care Fundraising
 

Hi everybody,

I know I haven't been around very much recently (term 2 is killing me) but I wanted to ask your opinion on something which presumably very close to most people.

Basically I'm going to spend February fundraising for Cancer Care. I've selected Cancer Care because of the support it offers to a wide range of people, from those suffering from cancer to the families who are caring for or have lost their loved ones due to cancer. It works really hard to ensure that nobody is left on their own to deal with the effects of cancer and I think it is a really important organisation.

Now I have access to a gunge tank at university that I may be able to use, and I have access to equipment to set up a bit of a soup kitchen, but I was wondering if you can think of any other fantastic fundraising events that you might have been to in the past that you think I could simulate at Uni. Obviously I have lots of students who I can contact to help raise money and awareness and I'm hoping I could perhaps organise a few small activities to raise a good amount of money and/or a big event.

So do you have any ideas? And do you think this is an important cause?

(p.s. I know this is perhaps better suited to Q&A but I think it is a good issue to discuss too and this section of the forum seems to get more attention!)

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in answer to yer question, ideas sorry no. important cause- without doubt, good on yer blaze.:)

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Brilliant cause, but apart from car wash/valet cannot think of any ideas, but good luck anyway.

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No ideas for fund raising but a brilliant cause. Anything that helps cancer patients and their carers is worth backing IMHO. The journey can be long and frightening and having somebody to take the burden away even for a short time would be great.

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A car wash wouldn't be making good use of all the students I have access to really as the majority don't have cars and there isn't really anywhere in lancaster where we could set that up and really get much money from it.

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Brilliant idea blazey, hope you make a lot of money with your efforts, in my opinion there is no more deserving charities than cancer care. Myself I'm a patron of the Christy but all cancer charities are more than worthwhile, kalma on its way

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What about a 'Top Swap'.....this is a bit like a Bring and Buy Sale........you bring along a top or a shirt/Tshirt and you give yours for free and buy one from someone else.
You could make it a big party.........best plan it for a weekend, let it run all day.....and you should make a bit of the folding stuff.
Who knows, you might even get businesses to donate Tshirts......canvas local sportsmen to donate a signed Tshirt...publicise the event in the local free paper.
I hope you do very well in your fundraising...it is a very worthy cause.

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iof you donate the top you are wearing at the time you might get more people there ;) ;)

good idea blazey :D

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But be sure to be wearing another one underneath:) (or a vest, at least)

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You could even call it tops and Bottles....get everyone to bring a bottle of plonk or some beer....and you have yourself a party.

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Quiz Night in the local pub, and a raffle with prizes donated by local firms. 4 bottles of wine for the winners ... booby prize for the losers .. cheap jokey things from the £1 shop.

Treasure hunt on foot - Work out a pile of clues for places round the uni or lancaster and they have to go round them ... need people to be there to sign their paper that theyve been or give them the next clue ... and set em off. Prize for the winner and booby prize for the loser.

Race Night with a difference ........ Instead of having a proper horse race ... mark out a course on a dance floor about 25 squares long ... 6 horses made out of brush handles and horses head out of paper ... 2 big dice and 1 dice is the horse number that moves the other dice is how many moves it makes. Sell the horses, take betting for the horses eg sell a raffle ticket for a quid each. You need someone to work out the odds for the horses ...

Its a good cause.

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just curious , but do you get college credits for this towards your degree in lieu of 'book-learning' for 'social/community activism' ?



an owd saying of my Grandad ...."anyone who does owt for nowt is a thief "

his actual saying was... "any ****** who does owt for nowt.... " but that word is not allowed ;) :D

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No we don't and it's actually eating up study time.

The reason we are doing it is in some way for ourselves, because we decided to take part in a law competition in which the modules get released over so much time, we had no idea what they'd be before we signed up... and the 3rd one is to do something for a charity, we all sat down and thought of something that affects a lot of people which is why we thought of cancer, then we looked at local charities and which depend really heavily on fund raising and specifically target helping society as a whole rather than the 'primary victim'.

I am team leader, there are 4 of us in total and we are planning a quiz, something for valentines day and we're also going to take part in the charity's wider collection days because the last thing we want to do is just do our task and then step back from it. The wider collection day is actually after the deadline.

I'm also involved in fund raising for another cause at the moment which is raising money for Derian Children's hospice. We're all tied into the society RAG (Raising and Giving) at university though and do these things quite often, but this is the first time we have organised our own event and we want it to be special and raise a lot of money.

It raises the moral question of whether it is 'good' to do something like that for personal gain (i.e. completing the module of the competition) but it wont hurt anybody, it will publicise the charity as we have to write an article for the law firm who is holding the competition and they will publish it, plus we're getting local press involved as we have contacts from other stuff we've been involved with in the past, and obviously the money will help the charity.

Yes we just want something for our CVs, but when the economic climate is the way it is at the moment we need to do everything we can and charities still need donations, and I imagine people are less likely to make donations when they're having to cut back. Students will always part with money for fun.

As for the swapping tshirts thing Margaret, there have been 'frock swaps' at university for £5 entry so yes that can be a good idea! I might speak to women's society and see if they'd possibly be interested in teaming up with us to arrange something similar for the cause :)

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I don't want to sound terrible because 1. we didn't know we'd have to do it and 2. it is still raising valuable money for a charity that needs it and we're putting a lot of effort into it.

I do a lot of things at university and to say its simply for two lines on my CV would be a lie. The satisfaction of really making a difference to someone, be it an individual or society as a whole is priceless and I do many things just for that and leave them off my CV.

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sponsored giving up smoking

cant cheat either coz teh machines at the smoking clinic can pick up if you have so much as sniffed a ciggy

im sure if you speak to your local smoking clinic they can sort out when the people willing to take part can go for help together

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Some of us are just trying to be good people and volunteer our time to try and help make things better.

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hey , don't kick me , its not for nothing that the number one award for local 'civic' effort/service, the OBE is known in Lancashire as "Other B*****s Effort "

the word we are not allowd to say ;) :D

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I don't think it is a very good attitude to slate those who do good things for some ulterior motive anyway, if nobody did that then its likely that lots of charities wouldn't be possible at all and we'd have a lot more suffering in the world than we do now. I've always been involved in some form of charity work though from campaigning, fundraising or just communication like via amnesty international.

I haven't financially gained from any of it yet, and I haven't had any major recognition for anything I have been a part of. It's always pretty satisfying though.

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There are people who give up their time to make a difference in their own communities, prime examples are Gayle and Neil with their work with Friends Of Rhyddings Park, is a matter of doing your bit, and if more people did the same we would have a better town for everybody, nay Country ;)

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I'd just like to update you all on my progress so far with this because I am a big believer in keeping people well informed!

I've organised a charity night at university in one of the college bars to be held on February 26th. Yes, short notice, perhaps I'm slightly crazy but I've never been afraid of a challenge!

We're having a charity raffle, a fancy dress competition in the theme of pirates, which is a popular theme for student nights so the idea is that people will already have costumes, and live music.

Local businesses and larger chain businesses have been supporting us with raffle prizes and I currently have bath sets, food vouchers, a gym pass, flowers, teddy bears, fancy dress items just to name a few!

I'm EXTREMELY excited and I'm just hoping people attend our events. I met up with the fundraising co-ordinator from Cancer Care today to pick up sweatshirts with their logo on as well as collection boxes and she was extremely encouraging and excited about my event and she'll be attended to decide upon the best pirate of the evening.

It is amazing how it is all coming together.


This is a LOCAL charity which is very much dependent on people like me organising these events and it is a massively important cause which helps all sorts of people. Just the other day I saw a gentleman volunteering his time and car for the charity as a volunteer driver and the charity pays for things like petrol and they drive elderly people to and from hospital and such, and they're just invaluable.

I care very much about this cause and I hope people want to support me in raising funds for this cause.

I'm hoping I can raise at least £200, a modest but substantial amount considering the time I've got to pull this all together. If everyone I knew donated £1 then I'd make so much money, even just 50p, but for postage donations I wouldn't make very much money once I'd paid for the stamp.

Thanks for the time it has taken for you to read my long message anyway, I do get carried away when I get excited!

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Do you have access to a paypal account? I would be more than happy to make a small donation to the cause that way (dont like sending cash in the post)

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I do, though I haven't used it for quite some time. I'll sort it out and then pass on the details via PM :)

I'm shaking with excitement about this event which isn't doing my piles of essays much good but nevermind!

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Also on that note, I do have an empty bank account so any money that goes via paypal will either be cashed through that and handed over in cash to the charity or I'll directly transfer it all over to them (presumably they have a bank account for funds).

So it won't come into contact with any of my own personal funds at any time.

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Okies, just let me know when its sorted and I will forward a couple of quid your way :)

Maybe some other members would be willing to do the same??

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OK i'm not allowed to ask for donations, it breaks forum rules. Anyone interested in my cause just get in touch and I'll tell you more about what I am doing and what I'm hoping to achieve and so on.

I'm a naughty mare.

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I have voluntarily made a donation :D

It should be electronically making its way to you now :)

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If anyone is interested, I've managed to get around £150 worth of prizes for the charity raffle so far too. If only you could see my big beaming smile!

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just keep at it as yer time permits,well done.:)

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Just wanted to let everyone know that this evening we raised an estimated £400 for Cancer Care, though it has yet to be officially counted.

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Basically the pictures above are of me and my team, the blonde woman in the middle and on stage with me being Nicki Hearne, the Fundraising Coordinator at Cancer Care. The picture of me eating cake is from a local based business named the Yummy Cupcake Company (that I highly recommend if you are ever in Lancaster) which supported us with a raffle prize in return for our support through advertising on our posters to an obviously massive student audience. The cakes in the bottom picture are what I baked in the morning before the event to raise a bit of extra money. I baked 95 fairy cakes and some people paid as much as £1 just for one, so we're hoping that we've raised an excellent amount of money for the cause.

Thank you to the accywebbers who supported the charity and my team, every donation helps make a big difference.

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good result blaze,am well pleased fer ya, its rewarding when ya work at it.;)

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congratulations blazey you did well.

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Thank you very much :) obviously it was a team effort, not just mine. Just glad I was able to lead such a fantastic team and make an actual difference.