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Your Fundraising Pack
Whether you prefer to keep your fundraising simple or have a little time to organise something extra special, thank you for everything you do to help us stop breast cancer in its tracks.
Thank you for your support!
In this pack you’ll find lots of fundraising ideas to get you started. We think you’ll find something that you and your family, friends and colleagues can do together to raise vital funds.
Why breast cancer? • Over 58,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer each year
• 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime.
• 11,500 people die from breast cancer each year.
Our Breast Cancer Research
We aim to raise £1 million to support the following 3 areas of breast cancer research: • Detecting Cancer Early: With the aim of creating the world’s first blood test to
detect breast cancer early. • Stopping Cancer From Spreading: To help us understand what makes cancer spread
and stop it. • Developing Personalised Treatments For Cancer Patients.
Bake Get together with colleagues and whip up some support by holding a bake sale
Save the date - Set your own or find out when people are already getting together.
Stir in some flavour - Tell people about your plans and use our template poster.
Sprinkle some finishing touches – Use our template price labels. Also consider take away requests and visit eatwell.gov.uk for health and safety advice.
Take a bite of the cherry- show off your culinary skills by showcasing your mother’s secret recipe; baking a time-old BBC favourite or pushing yourself and tackling a Great British Chef’s dessert.
Let the judging commence - Ramp up the competition a little more by nominating an impartial individual to test out the bakes.
Raise some dough - As well as being great fun, and the perfect excuse to eat cake, we’re hoping that you will raise as much money as you can.
Your recipe for success:
Life Cycle Having completed five successful Life Cycles - raising in excess of £1.8m – Riders will be back in the saddle once again in 2016. This year’s challenge is stopping breast cancer in its tracks.
Life Cycle Community Day
Why not take part in our Life Cycle Community Day on Sunday 4 September. There are 4 distances to choose from - 75, 50, 25 or 10 miles - you’ll be cheered across the finish line and receive a well-deserved goody bag and medal to mark your achievement. See nottingham.ac.uk/lifecycle for more information.
Cycle your commute: Cycle your commute for a week and donate the savings you make from the cost of your usual commute.
Sporting heroes: Whether it’s Chris Hoy, John McEnroe, Bullseye’s Bully, or even RED RUM – dress up as your favourite sporting hero to show everyone you’ve donated and made a difference to breast cancer research.
Bike Go the extra mile for breast cancer research
Matched giving: Check whether a family/friend’s company offers a matched giving scheme – they could double your money!
University Challenged!
• Why not organise a quiz with friends, family and colleagues to help boost your fundraising total?
• We have a number of 100 question powerpoint quizzes with pre-printed answer sheets and ideas for generating further funds through games, a raffle and auction.
Step Out for Impact!
Looking for a more sedate activity to involve friends, family and colleagues in your fundraising efforts? Why not organise a local sponsored walk. We have downloadable walk leaflets from across the East Midlands from local country parks something more off the beaten track.
Christmas Christmas choir and collection: Held in your foyer to get colleagues into the Christmas spirit.
Christmas hamper raffle: Donate a Christmas hamper and raffle this to customers for £1 a ticket.
Christmas Jumpers: Wear your loudest Christmas jumper to work for a donation.
Pancakes
Pancake Race: Grab a frying pan and pancake mix and host a sponsored pancake race. Flipathon: Host a sponsored ‘How many successful pancake flips in a minute can you achieve?’ Highest Flip: Host a sponsored highest successful flip competition. Sell your pancakes: Sell different flavoured varieties of pancakes.
Easter
Guess the Name of the Bunny Sweepstake: Find yourself a big cuddly toy bunny and invite colleagues to guess the name from a long list, and the right answer wins the bunny! Customers can take part for a suggested donation of £1. Hot Cross Bun Bake Sale: Put your baking skills to the test and hold a cake sale including some scrumptious hot cross buns. Or try and tempt colleagues with some homemade yummy chocolaty treats. Invite colleagues to try a treat for a suggested donation of £1.
BBQ extravaganza: There's nothing better to do on a warm summer’s evening than get the BBQ out. Why not make this into a fundraiser? Keep it simple and just charge per burger, or go all out and organise live music, children’s games and a raffle. Whatever you decide to do, if the weather stays dry you’re sure to have a great summer fundraising event. Children's sports day: A classic summer fundraising idea. Egg and spoon, sack race, three-legged race - take your friends and family back to their childhood by organising a children's sports day. Charge by the person or by the team and maximise your donations by having a cake or juice sale. No cheating allowed!
Summer
Halloween
Let’s get spooky: Grab your witch’s/wizard’s hat and dress up in Halloween fancy dress. Donate £1 each for the day. Creepy crawlies challenge: A fundraiser for colleagues to get behind. Hide (plastic!) spiders or spider stickers in store and see who can find them first. Donate £1 to take part. A trick or treat lucky dip: A lucky dip where not every prize is a treat!
What will your impact be?
Your fundraising will be included as part of the Nottingham’s Life Cycle 6 campaign which aims to raise £1 million to research the detection and spread of breast cancer and to develop personalised treatments for cancer sufferers.
Help make this world-leading research possible and start fundraising today!
Nottingham is home to the world’s first blood test to detect lung cancer and the platform is poised and our award winning breast cancer research team of the year are now ready to target breast cancer and other solid cancers.
Tell us what you’re up to We’d love to hear what you have planned
Email us: Let us know what you’re up to by emailing [email protected]
Call us: Contact Dawn Broomfield on 0115 74 84809
How to pay in your money
By cheque: Cheques should be made payable to: The University of Nottingham. Please send cheques to: Community Fundraising Manager, University of Nottingham, Campaign and Alumni Relations Office, Ground Floor Pope Building, University Park, Nottingham. NG7 2RD.
Online: Contact [email protected] for our bank details.
Thank you for your support.
