Fundraise
Fundraising is a great way you can contribute to Child Wise. You could host your own event, organise an office raffle or quiz, hold a garage sale, sell sweets at your place of work or through your club - the possibilities are endless!
Through your activity or event, not only do you raise funds for us to continue our work protecting children but you also help us share our message. By raising awareness about Child Wise and about the work we are doing to prevent child abuse you are helping to protect more children. Click here for more information about spreading the word.
Here are some ideas to get you started……..
- Sell food or products at your office or your club: Go to http://www.fundraisingdirectory.com.au for an extensive list of fundraising products and services in Australia. Generally, the way these activities work is that you register directly with the product company, they send you the good to sell at a retail price. Once you have sold the goods, you forward the money to us as a donation.
- Set up your event on your own fundraising page: Set up your own sponsorship or donations page at www.mycause.com.au . You can collect donations online from friends, family and work colleagues all over the world. It's a really quick, simple and secure way to collect sponsorship for your fundraising activity.
- Karma Currency Charitable Gift Registry: Perfect for birthdays, weddings, engagements and more, you can now set up your own personalised gift registry and invite your friends and family to donate funds towards Child Wise! On the site you'll find lots of Child Wise gifts. Plus, karma currency will issue your guests a tax deductible receipt. To begin your registry, click on www.karmacurrency.com.au
Run an online fundraiser selling a variety of products: Set up your fundraising activity with the Professors Fundraising site www.fundraising.net.au . Set up your fundraiser adding in “Your activity name – fundraising for Child Wise”. All you have to do it promote this through your network arrange for delivery and distribution of the products. **There are other similar sites offering this kind of service. We suggest you do your research. Child Wise cannot guarantee the service or quality of products sold though the services recommended in this section. They are intended to provide you with ideas to help you with your activities.**
- Intrepid Travel charity challenge: Are you an intrepid traveller? Why not take a different holiday this year and join an Intrepid Charity Challenge. Seek sponsorship from your friends, family and colleagues to take the challenge to join a community project, trek or cycle through some of the world’s most exciting destinations. See the Intrepid calendar of events and choose to support Child Wise under the Charity Partner listing. Find out more http://www.intrepidtravel.com/challenges
- Send an e-card: You can send an e-card to your family and friends and at the same time make a valuable contribution to Child Wise's work. Go to http://mycause.com.au/ecards.php and select Child Wise.
- Other ideas include: Film screenings (ask your local cinema how to go about it), fetes/market stalls, fashion parades, a gold-coin morning tea at your office, lawn bowls, karaoke or sports events or themed dinner parties. Our fundraisers have come up with some brilliant ideas…I’m sure you can too!
We can help you
Tell us about your event and we can help you in whatever way we can. We can provide our logo (to be used according to our instructions only) and we may be able to provide information or materials that can help you in your event. Register your event with us by completing our Registration Form.
Finally, make sure your fundraising is legal.
You may need to consider such things as public liability insurance, licences or permits if you run a lottery or raffle (check your state/territory gambling regulations), food safety or alcohol permits may be required or there may be rules relating to door-to-door appeals or street collections. You also must make sure your donors and sponsors are clear how about the percentage of their money you will be donating to us. You may have operating costs that will be deducted from their overall donation. This should be declared to your donors and sponsors.
We are very grateful for every contribution, great or small, as together you help us make the difference for children. Thank you.
Good luck and have fun!