The December newsletter is now available and this quarter you can read about some of the years fundraising successes and meet more members of staff from the Home.
Category: Fundraising successes
Gift cards for fundraising
Cambridge Road Methodist Church in Birmingham have been using gift cards to fund raise with great success. The following report is by their co-ordiantor Debbie (July 2007).
We have been using Gift Cards to raise money for MRCH. This year we raised a total of £400. In previous years we have raised as much as £700! This year, some of the gifts were gift-aided which will add about £90.00 to the overall total. This has involved a bit more administrative work for me to do, but well worth it for the additional money. We have provided a choice of gift cards in £5, £10 and £20 denominations stating on each card roughly what the money would buy (e.g. £5 for school shoes and shoe-laces; £10 towards a month’s medication for a child with HIV; £20 towards equipment for refurbishing the crèche). It’s been well worth the effort. In comparison with other fundraising efforts, it’s not very labour intensive. To offer gift cards just print off templates from the MRCH Resources section and then take orders and keep track of the gift aid. If anyone would like to do this at their Church or work-place next year, I would be happy to help or forward on the templates we have developed. You can contact me via the Chairman. One bit of advice would be to start early! E.g. end of November for Christmas – I was a bit late this year and it made it a bit frantic! The Gift Cards can also be used for one-off gifts for special occasions – for example, my Gran recently celebrated her 100th Birthday and was given over £200 which she decided to donate to MRCH. It was nice to be able to create a presentable Gift Card to give to her.
Black tie dinner dance raises 5k
On Saturday 28th May 2005 over 100 supporters of MRCH gathered in the beautiful 15th Century Merchant Taylor’s Hall in York for a black tie dinner/dance. People travelled from far a field, even as far as Kent, to support the event which was a huge success. Almost £5,000 was raised in a variety of ways. Items were auctioned, these included: a Tottenham shirt signed by England star Teddy Sherringham, boxing gloves signed by over 20 former British boxing champions including Henry Cooper, an England shirt signed by the England international stars Jason Leonard, Tim Rodber and Micky Skinner. There were also raffle prizes. After dinner there was a disco. This was a truly excellent evening of fun and fundraising for MRCH – A big thank you to all involved.