Great ways to raise money and protect vulnerable children across the world

COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING IDEAS

Friends Pamela McDowell and Pamela Acheson from Northern Ireland know that baking is a really great way to raise awareness and funds for Tearfund. Could you follow their lead and use the stickers in your Big Bake Sale on Anti-Slavery Day, 18th October?

THE BIG BAKE OFF Gather friends, colleagues or your homegroup for a culinary competition to get your tastebuds tingling. Invite participants to bake and judge each other’s creations in a knock-out competition. Raise money by charging a fee to participate.

THE BIG BAKE SALEThe Tearfund Big Bake will culminate in The Big Bake Sale on Anti-Slavery Day (18 October). We want you to bake and sell as many cakes as will feed your congregation to raise money and help 50,000 of the most vulnerable children across the world. Use the enclosed stickers to reward people who purchase cakes at your bake sale.

CAKES MEAN PRIZESUpload photos of your culinary goods at tearfund.org/bigbake to be in with a chance of winning a great prize. Later this year, three winners will earn a place on The Hobbs House Bakery Course, run by Tom Herbert of Channel 4’s The Fabulous Baker Brothers. Tom visited Nang’s village to meet people vulnerable to trafficking and to see how our partner is turning the tide on trafficking in the community. Please watch Tom’s film on the enclosed dvd or at tearfund.org/nochildtaken/fundraise.

Find out everything you need to run The Big Bake at tearfund.org/bigbake

GET YOUR BAKE ON This is your chance to flex your creative culinary muscles and raise some money to help protect vulnerable children across the world.

In Laos, baking workshops and starter kits are one way our partner is helping young people earn their own income, keeping them safe from the lure of traffickers. Here in the UK, we want you to join The Big Bake to raise money so that more children can be kept safe. The Big Bake has two components: The Big Bake Off and The Big Bake Sale.

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IF BAKING’S NOT YOUR THING… Show your support for No child taken. Please put on a challenge to raise sponsorship money.

BORDER WALKWalk round the border of your county or parish in solidarity with children who are trafficked across borders around the world.

No, really challenge me: Encourage a group from your neighbouring county or parish to do the same and compete with each other to see who can win or raise the most money.

RICE ONFor most families in Laos, rice is their main source of nourishment. If they can afford to, people accompany their rice with small quantities of fish, frogs, or chicken, which is boiled down to a stock to flavour the rice. Could you eat a rice-heavy diet, with rice as your only carbohydrate, for three days? No bread, no potatoes, no pasta… and no biscuits!

Or for a bigger challenge: limit your allowance to 50g of rice all day – that’s less than 200 kcals daily.

COME TO YOUR SENSESMakala, a girl living in a village close to Nang’s, was rounded up with other young people and transported to Thailand in a van with blacked-out windows. Identify with her experience for a day by blocking out one of your senses. Whether sporting eye masks, ear-defenders or gloves, use the experience to raise sponsorship money.

If you’re up for a bigger challenge: block out two senses, or extend the length of your challenge.

For more ideas and activities and a sponsorship form visit

tearfund.org/nochildtaken/fundraise

Look out for...ANTI-SLAVERY DAY 18 OCTOBER 2014Anti-Slavery Day was established to raise awareness of modern day slavery. It’s an opportunity to make a big noise about modern-day slavery and to raise awareness. Use this day to run The Big Bake Sale – a fun and easy way to raise money to help protect vulnerable children, and let your congregation’s culinary skills run wild.

DEFINITION OF SLAVERY: Modern slavery includes the traditional idea of slavery and also practices such as debt bondage, forced marriage, the sale or exploitation of children, human trafficking and forced labour.

Source: Global Slavery Index Report, 2013.

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Thank you

A child is trafficked every 30 seconds.

With you on board we can change things. Together we can help protect 50,000 children from trafficking, disease and disaster.

Tearfund is asking you to stand alongside us, as we follow Jesus to the places of greatest need, to achieve this. We need to raise £1 million

to help the most vulnerable children.