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First of all set set up a Facebook Community Page
Remember, to add a “Donate” button with a link to your Campaign url
Get your family, friends and friends of friends involved in a challenge! The most successful campaigns happen not when people get lots of sponsors for a single event, but when they persuade people they know to undertake a challenge. Persuade your Granny to skydive!
Advise these challengers to set up their own JustGiving Fundraising Pages direct from your Campaign page.
More information How to start Fundraising
Remember to encourage your donors to set up monthly donations.
Gift Aid
Gift Aid is a government scheme that allows us, as a registered charity, to reclaim 25% basic rate tax on any gifts you make. To make a Gift Aid declaration, you must be a UK taxpayer. This includes people who are retired and still pay tax on savings and pensions. So, for every £1 you donate, we receive an extra 25p from HM Revenue and Customs.
Download your Gift Aid Form from HMRC
Feel free to print copies of the Sponsor Form and Gift Aid Declaration Form and photocopy as you wish. You may add your campaign name to the forms but any other changes may result in HMRC not accepting them.
If you plan to claim Gift Aid on donations, please remember the following:
- You will not be permitted to collect Gift Aid from donations made by family members;
- You can not claim Gift Aid on funds donated by Companies – it only applies to individuals;
- You will not be able to claim Gift Aid unless the donor has/will pay the requisite amount of income/capital gains tax – please see the form for further details.
Match Funding
Some organisations provide funding for organisations such as Just4Children through their employees. It is a very simple yet immensely useful tool from which extra funding can be raised for your appeal. The list of match-funding companies in the UK is long, and includes many banks and well known names such as Boots, WH Smith and Norwich Union. Ask your friends to speak to their employers to find out whether they offer match funding.
Cheques
Should be payable to the “Just4Children” with your child’s name written on the back and banked as soon as possible.
Cash
We do not encourage cash donations as this is difficult for us to monitor closely.
Please note that ALL monies collected during your fundraising should be banked into our account as soon as possible.
Other important fundraising information
- We provide support for a Skydive costing a fundraiser only £50.
- We provide support and subsidised places for the Ultra Challenge Series
- Take a look at these challenges Elite Adventures
- Payday, best day of the month. Make it even better with Payroll Giving
- Check out Easyfundraising where you can raise donations when donors shop online
- A supporter’s guide to selling for charity on eBay
- Persimmion run a community champions scheme
- Look through this Grants Search database as you may be eligible for funds
- Just occasionally for an event involving the general public at a private venue like a shopping centre you may be asked for Public liability Insurance. We can provide this on request.