There are various ways to raise funds for your race in the desert, both online and offline. You can be as (un)creative as you want as long as you achieve your personal target. To help you get started, we came up with a list of opportunities to raise money that you are welcome to add to.
ONLINE
Justgiving. Sandblast is a charity on Justgiving. To create your own fundraising site and raise funds for Sandblast, you need to affiliate your site with ours. To do so, you go to www.justgiving.com/sandblast and click "make your page" on the left side menu. Follow the instructions, upload a nice picture of you, write a little text about yourself and your aims and invite your friends, family and colleagues to donate for your adventure race. If you have trouble with any of this, don't hesitate to contact us.
To help you making your Justgiving page public, you can
- create a facebook group: If you've already got a facebook profile, you just need to create a group that explains your project and links to your justgiving page. You can make it your status, send messages to your facebook friends. If you haven't got a facebook profile, it may not be worth it to create one as it will take some time for you to befriend people to send/communicate your justgiving page to
- email the link to your address book and ask your friends, family and colleagues to donate as much as they want
- add the link to your email signature, so everytime you email somebody, they have the link ready to donate a few pounds
- tweed your justgiving page link
- make a poster and hang it up on your blackboard at work, the nursery/school of your kid, your university
OFFLINE
There are endless fundraising opportunities and it would be great to hear from you what you have done to raise money for your trip to the refugee camps:
- Auction an item on Ebay
- Hold a bingo night
- Bake cakes and cookies and sell them to your friends, family and colleagues
- Send e-cards instead of Christmas cards and donate the amount you would have spent purchasing and sending these
- Have a pub-quiz and ask all groups to register for a minimal fee
- Hold a raffle
- Invite your friends over for a themed dinner, they’ll pay a set amount
Do you have any ideas?
