Fundraising for Macmillan

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Fundraising resources and ideas

Fundraising is all part of the challenge and we know it can be difficult to keep asking the same friends and family to support you. Your online giving page will get you off to a great start, but it shouldn’t be the only way you think about fundraising.

We’ve got a number of A-Z easy fundraising ideas for you to use, both in and out of the work place.

If your putting on an event why not use be.macmillan to make a poster or invitations to let everyone know about your event, get some balloons or bunting to brighten up your event and order a collection tin to see those donations come rolling in.  

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Online fundraising

Setting up an online giving page is as easy as 1, 2, 3

1. Visit JustGiving or Virgin Money Giving, choose Macmillan Cancer Support and select your challenge from the list.
2. Personalise your page. Don’t forget to set your target – pages with targets receive on average 46% more than those without.
3. Shoot for a target – Aim high and tell the world
4. Once you’ve met your target don’t stop there. We find that most fundraisers raise much more than their original pledge.

These top tips that will help you create a brilliant looking fundraising page in no time.

• Add a photo – let your picture do some talking too. Fundraisers with pictures on their page tend to raise 14% more.
• Add a fundraising summary – this is the first thing people will read and you could raise an additional 9%!
• Tell your personal story – let your supporters know what being a part of Team Macmillan means to you.
• Don’t be afraid to share your page on your social media. And every time you update it, share it again.
• Post regular updates – new stories give your supporters a reason to come back and donate again.
• Don’t forget about email – there are lots of people who are not on social media who would like to hear what you are doing.
• Include any money you’ve raised offline. Add your cash and chqueue donations to you page so everyone can see how well you’re doing.
• It’s not over ‘til it’s over – donations come in after the event so make sure you follow up and tell people how you did.

Facebook Donate

If you choose to use Facebook as a fundraising platform, or in order to complement or top up donations for your event, please note we may not be aware of this fundraising activity. If you do raise money on Facebook and want us to link this to your event, please get in touch; you can email challenge@macmillan.org.uk or send us a private message through Facebook

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Paying your money in

You’ve done the hard work in raising the money so now make sure it gets to us! It’s super simple and there’s lots of ways to send in your sponsorship money so just pick the one that is best for you.

If you’ve set up an online giving page then you don’t need to do anything - your online page updates your personal fundraising automatically!