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Fundraising ideas & guidance

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Welcome and thank you forconsidering to fundraisein aid of NottinghamshireWildlife Trust.

Whatever event you organise I hope you have a fabulous time and know that all your fundraising helps towards Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust deliver its key aims to protect wildlife on your doorstep.

Now get yourself a drink and sit back to read through this booklet and start planning your event.

You are in good company as Chris Packham and Bill Oddie also support The Wildlife Trusts.

Welcome

Bill OddieChris Packham

The Wildlife Trusts make it easy for us to enjoy

wildlife and wild places in town

and country. They need

your support to carry on with this

vita l work.

Y our local Wildlife Trust works within your community and

so is looking after wildlife in your backyard.

That means you benef it from it so show

your support at a local level.

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Protecting wildlife on your doorstepFor over 50 years, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has been working to protect the county’s wildlife and green places. By caring for nature reserves, campaigning to save sites from development and inspiring young people about the wonders of the natural

world, we can safeguard the wildlife on your doorstep.

Our network of 67 nature reserves in Nottinghamshire means that everyone in the county has the opportunity to experience wildlife at close quarters.

We can’t do all this without your fundraising help though.

So, the more fun you have with your friends, family and colleagues at your fundraising

Why we need your Support

event, the more money raised towards protecting wildlife on your doorstep.

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Planning your event is easy.

Set your dateHold your event when youcan gather as much supportas possible from friends,family and colleagues to makeyour event a success

Choose your venueYour event can be anywhere:at home, at school, at work orin your local community, withpermission of course.

InvitationsInvite others to join you. They can help organise and fundraise with you, inspiring more people to get together to have some fun. You could send your invitations using the invites downloadable from the website.

Planning your event

PromoteDownload the poster from our website and fill in your event details. Post them wherever you can get permission, at school, work, club house etc.

Don’t forget to invite friends online through facebook and twitter.

Let us know about your event too, as, if you would like us to, we can help promote it to other local supporters.

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Fundraising online can makeyour life easier. Go to our JustGiving page and click on the‘Fundraise for us’ button toset up your own personalisedfundraising page.

Your supporters can thendonate direct to us throughJust Giving with no forms tofil in or cash to handle

It is easy to share your personal fundraising page with friends on facebook and twitter too, using #WOYD.

Online fundraising

To donate text WOYD14 to 70070and £5 will be charged to your phone.

Text costs £5.00 plus network charge. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust receives 100% of your donation. Donations will support all the work of the Wildlife Trust including the maintenance of local nature reserves. Part of your donation may be used for

payments to Landfill Companies in order to unlock Landfill Community Funds. For each £1 used we unlock £10 to invest in the project. Therefore in making this donation you consent to this. Obtain bill payer’s permission. Reg Charity No 224168.

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Coffee morning or afternoon teaServe tea or coffee at your event with the first drink as part of the entry fee. Position the drinks next to the cake stall and you can increase your fundraising easily with cake sales!

Nature hunt Use our spotting sheets to help find plants and wildlife on your doorstep. To help increase your fundraising you could always charge for a sheet.

Garden games Charge an entry fee andprovide a prize for the winner.- Egg and spoon race- Chess- Croquet- Jenga

Fundraising Ideas

Face painting Always great fun for any age. Donations per face painted.

Colour theme your party – ask every one to wear a certain colour and those who don’t pay a fine!

Silent auction Auction items ‘silently’ by displaying them on a table with a bid form. The highest bid purchases the item at the end of day for the price of their bid.

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Alternative moisturiser Encourage a volunteer to sit in a bath filled with custard or stand in wellies full of beans. They can be sponsored to do it on the day! We would love to see your photos too, so if you have permission from guests in the photos then share them on facebook, twitter and flickr.

Hold a plant saleThose with green fingers always have spare plants from

just one packet of seeds or cuttings, so share them for a small fundraising charge.

How many? Guess the weight/ name/ number of something, for example the number of sweets in a jar. The closest winner wins the jar of sweets or cake that they have guessed the weight of.

Count the pennies Have a loose change jar available for people to pop their change in. Download and print the collection tin wrapper from the website to decorate your jar with.

Treasure hunt Set a trail and see who can follow your clues. First to complete it wins the prize at the final clue.

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Cake stall Always a winner and a great fundraiser! Get help baking biscuits and cakes so you don’t have to do it all yourself. Try our easy beetroot cake recipe.

Welly wanging If you haven’t taken part in this “sport” you don’t know what you are missing and all you need is a clear space, a welly and a measuring tape or bit of string!

You can get more information from our website and download a certificate to award the champion.

Best hat of the day award Invite people to wear a hat to your event with a prize for the winner or multiple prizes for different categories.

Inspire others to take part and share your photos with us (so long as you have permission to from those in the photos!)

Picture quiz Print off pictures and number them, displaying them around your venue for people to guess what they are. They could be cryptic clues to popular song titles or a snap shot of a much larger image.

Use our online picture gallery for images.

The person who correctly answers the most wins a prize.

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Get the most out of your event and ask your guests to tick the Gift Aid box on the donation form if they are a UK tax payer.

It costs nothing more to your guest and can make an extra 25p in every £1 donated for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, providing they have paid sufficient basic rate UK

income Tax/ Capital Gains Tax to cover this amount.

To claim it we will need each person’s name, home address and postcode as well as the donated amount.

Gift AidPlease ensure you consider the law to keep safe.

Use your common sense when it comes to health & safety.

If food is to be sold at a fundraising event, make sure everyone follows the basic health and safety rules for preparation, storage, display

and cooking of food. For more advice and guidance check the Food Standards Agency website: www.food.gov.uk

Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust can not accept liability for any loss, damage or injury by you or anyone else as a result of taking part in a fundraising event.

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So you’ve held your event, what next?

It’s that feel good moment when you let everyone know how much you have raised!

Handy hint – ask your bank for plenty of money bags prior to your event to help tidy all those coins into when paying it in.

It couldn’t be easier to send us what you’ve raised.

OnlineJust add any offlefundraising as one extralump sum to your Just Givingdonations to show everyonehow much you have raisedin total. That way the moneycomes straight through tous and you can share thegood news with friends andcolleagues online.

Post event By post Alternatively if you or your guests would like to donate using a Charities Aid Foundation voucher or cheque, then these can be posted to us at the address below.

Please ensure cheques are made payable to Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and have a covering note to say you held a fundraising event for ‘Wildlife on your doorstep’.

Nottinghamshire Wildlife TrustThe Old Ragged SchoolBrook StreetNottinghamNG1 1EA

Next steps – Have you taken part in our new garden mammal survey? Why not get your guests to do it too?

Click here to join in.

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Any questions?Then call the Marketing & Fundraising Team on 0115 958 8242

or email us fundraising@nottswt.co.ukwe’re here to support you in your fundraising.

Nottinghamshire Wildlife TrustThe Old Ragged School, Brook Street, Nottingham NG1 1EA

Registered charity no. 224168R