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CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY

#CHRISTMASJUMPERDAY

Friday 15 December

YOUR GUIDE to making the world

better with a sweater.

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GO SNOWYBAUBLEKNITS

Photo: Jamie Baker/Save the C

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THANK YOU 2. POP ON YOUR PULLOVERSYou don’t need to buy a sweater if you don’t want to. Swap, borrow or bling up an old one. Trees, tinsel, snowmen, baubles, fairy lights – nothing’s out of bounds. Except good taste. Get everyone together with pompoms on. Share your photos and tag them #christmasjumperday

1. SPREAD THE CHEER THIS YEAR This is what it’s all for. If you don’t donate you’re just wearing a daft jumper for the day and that’s just not quite the same. Collect £2 for every festive knit (and from the bah-humbugs too if you can). We’ve packed in as many ideas as we can to help you raise a little extra, because the more you collect the more you’ll be making a difference for children around the world.

3. RAISE MONEY

We’re delighted you’ve signed up to help make this year’s Christmas Jumper Day the biggest, silliest, woolliest event yet.

This pack is full of ideas to help you plan your day and have fun in your GlitzyTinselKnits. Every jumper – and every pound raised – really can help save children’s lives.

Here’s how to get started.

We need your help to get everyone wearing their daftest and most wonderful woollies.

• Put up the posters from your pack.

• Share our emails or send a calendar invite to make sure Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day is in their diary for Friday 15 December

• Post about the day on social media using #christmasjumperday

• If you’re taking part at work, make sure to send regular reminders out to all staff or share our emails

Photo: Louis Leeson/Save the Children

CAN’T DO 15 DECEMBER? We don’t mind. Just pick a date that suits you. could buy a pair of

winter shoes for a child in Afghanistan.

£2

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Photo: Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children

Fleur East visiting Save the Children’s programmes in Kenya.

MAKING THE WORLD BETTER WITH A SWEATER

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Joseph* lives with his mum in Uganda. They fled conflict in South Sudan after his uncle was killed. Then Joseph got seriously ill with pneumonia.

His fever, cough and chest pain got so bad in the night that his mum was scared for his life. She brought him to a Save the Children clinic, where our nurse was able to give him the intravenous injection of antibiotics he needed.

There are more than 780,000 South Sudanese refugees in Uganda and

over half of them are children. Save the Children’s Emergency Health Unit is treating children here for some of the biggest child killers in the world, like pneumonia, malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhoea. We’re also making sure children have their vaccines for diseases like polio and measles.

Your support means we can get these simple but life-saving treatments to more children like Joseph.

*Name changed to protect identity.

Whisnu, 12, has used a wheelchair since 2013. He got bone tuberculosis, which caused the bones in his knees to fuse so he couldn’t walk any more. We work with his family to make sure he isn’t left behind because of his disability. We helped him get a place in school, and we support his mum, who looks after him, his three brothers and one sister.

“[Before], if I needed to go out, Mum would carry me on her back. It’s better now [that I have the wheelchair]. I can move it forward, backward, and turn it. I sit on it in the classroom.

“Mum helps me put on my uniform and shoes. I get onto my wheelchair and cross the street to school. What makes

me happy is that I have many friends. The teachers are nice.

“I like science. I can play a computer. I want to be a computer expert.”

You can help children like Whisnu overcome the obstacles they face and achieve their dreams.

By raising money this Christmas Jumper Day, you, your colleagues, family and friends will be helping give children a brighter future.

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larke/Save the Children

If you need more inspiration to boost your donations, please visit our website at savethechildren.org.uk/about-us for more information about our work. We’ll also be sharing a personalised film for you to show to everyone taking part

on the morning of Christmas Jumper Day.

UNDER TREATMENTIN UGANDA

DARING TO DREAM IN INDONESIA

Turn your day into one big festive fun-fest to raise life-saving funds. We’ve included some of the best ideas you sent us here – so keep sharing!

WOOLLY WONDERFUL FUNDRAISING IDEAS

BAUBLEBELLS THE BOSSSponsor the boss to wear a silly sweater. Choose two outrageous jumpers and display them in advance with collection jars – the one with the most donations wins. Or spring it on them last minute and let people add an extra decoration to the boss’s jumper in exchange for a donation and watch how ridiculous it gets.

NAFFRAFFGet ready for the naffest raffle in town. Ask everyone to donate their unwanted gifts from last year, or a nice fresh sprout sandwich, and sell tickets to win. Someone else’s trash could be your new found treasure.

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FESTIVE FORGETFULSDon’t let colleagues get left out of the jumper jollies because of a memory lapse (or cynical streak). Collect donations for HumbugGrumblePants stickers instead – or fashion jumpers out of what’s in the office on the day – think hole-punch snow and Christmas-card collages. Don’t forget you can print our templates too! christmasjumperday.org/fundraising-pack

MAKE-AND-BAKE SALETick a few things off your Christmas shopping list with this twist on the classic bake sale. Put a call out for crafts and gifts as well as bakes and you’ll raise more life-saving donations. Find craft ideas and recipes for ball-of-yarn cupcakes and ginger jumper cake at christmasjumperday.org/fundraising-pack

CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO BAKE? Get everyone to bring in shop-bought goodies instead, mix it up with a cheese board or order in a pizza and sell slices for donations.

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Christmas Jumper Day is on the way! You can also make your messages merry by downloading these festive stickers from the App Store.

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There’s no need to splash the cash on a new sweater if you don’t want to shop.

Some of our favourite ever Christmas Jumpers were self-crafted masterpieces.

STICK ON SOME POMPOMBAUBLEBELLS

CHECK OUR WEBSITE on the day for fabulous festive knits

LIVE from across the country. You can also download woolly awards for your

most impressive jumper-wearers.

could buy bottled water and thermal blankets for 50 children.£400

Photo: Kaung Htet/Save the Children

Share your snaps on social media using

#christmasjumperday and you could be named one of our jumpers of the

hour on the big day.

SUPER SUPPLIERS AND CHRISTMAS CUSTOMERSOnce your colleagues are in, challenge others to get involved too. Add Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day to your email signature or mention it in meetings – make sure everyone you speak to is in on the fun! You can even ask for raffle or sweepstake prize donations.

JOLLYJUKEBOXNominate an office DJ and get a Christmas Jumper Day soundtrack going, either in the office or on the dancefloor at the Christmas party. Ask for donations to add to or vote on the playlist.

SWEEPSTAKEUse the sweepstakes in your pack and get everyone to chip in with a donation to play. Ask local businesses to donate prizes, or buy chocolates or bubbly for the winner so that all of the money you raise can go to help save children’s lives.

CANCEL THE CARDFESTSave yourself from a clutter of festive envelopes and get your business, colleagues, family or friends to donate instead of exchanging Christmas cards.

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Photo: Matt Crossick / Save The Children

Photo: Coco Chen/Save the Children

CHECKLIST: DONE IT? TICK IT!

When the JollyJingleJumpers are packed away, don’t forget to send us all the donations you worked hard to raise. It’s quick and easy.

When you pay in online, by cheque or cash, please include your unique Christmas Jumper Day reference number so we can tick off your name and send you a certificate. You can find it on the letter that came in the pack with this booklet (it starts with CJD17 – jot it on this page if you think you might lose your letter).

PAYING IN ONLINEGo to christmasjumperday.org to make a quick, secure payment. Please include your reference number.

PAYING IN AT THE BANKTake your money with the giro slip from your letter to your bank or any NatWest

branch. Unfortunately these slips can’t be paid in at the Post Office.

PAYING BY POSTSend your giro slip, with a cheque payable to ‘Save the Children’, in the envelope provided.

Please don’t send cash in the post.

PAYING IN

Photo: Louis Leeson/Save the Children

could buy educational toys for 30 struggling families in the UK to help their children develop and learn.

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The sooner you pay in your money, the sooner it can start making a difference to children’s lives. Please pay in by 22 December if you can.

Your reference number is:

QUESTIONS? NEED MORE RESOURCES? Get in touch on 0808 281 1031 or email

[email protected]

Make sure Friday 15 December is in everyone’s diaries (or choose your date).

Spread the word. Put up posters, share our emails and videos with your colleagues and friends, and make sure everyone knows to come in their jumpers on the big day.

Peruse fundraising resources, posters, recipes, sweepstakes, woolly awards and other goodies at christmasjumperday.org/fundraising-pack

Ask for £2 a woolly and have fun with your extra fundraising plans – have a designated jumper team to collect donations on the day. You can make your donations go further by downloading our Gift Aid form and asking everyone taking part to complete their details after donating.

Take snaps and share them using #christmasjumperday

Share your team text code (if you set one up) or call us to set one up.

Collect and pay in those vital, life-saving funds – your instructions are just over the page.

THANK YOU!

Photo: Talitha Brauer/Save the Children

#CHRISTMASJUMPERDAY

By joining in on Christmas Jumper Day, you’re helping to save children’s lives.

Together we can be there when children need us most. When they’re in danger we can keep working to keep them safe.

When they’re sick, cold and hungry we can keep working to bring them food and water, medicine and shelter.

Because of your help, we can keep making the world better for children everywhere.

Discover more about our work at savethechildren.org.uk/about-us

Registered charity England and Wales (213890) Scotland (SC039570).

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