With the amount of celebrity people doing their piece for charity, it is a bit harder to help a worthy cause when you are average Jo Blogs without a huge following of fans. To help you expand some ideas I thought I would write a few points to help you on the road to setting up a fundraiser of your own.
Firstly what are you trying to do, are you wanting to build understanding or raise funds. Heightening understanding is normally sorted out by teaching the individuals that are your target group this can be done in several ways be it written information, local radio, TV, an event that you do that promotes discussion or has the media showing an interest in covering the specific event, the internet or organised meetings.
Fund raising on the other hand is asking someone to part with their money to support your chosen subject, once again part of this is teaching individuals about what your charity is but the other bit is providing the individuals that are giving you money with something in return. Shock, Horror you could initially think but individuals need to leave feeling like they have helped someone or something. If inside this you can provide a person with something that is of value to them, or makes them feel happy, all the better.
Once you know what you are trying to get to think about where you are about to stage the event. If it is a village hall fundraising project or a Church fundraising event speak to people in the area about having access to village or church hall as a base or if it’s about School fundraising speak to the school itself and find out if you can have the use of their village hall to stage your fundraising. Obviously if you are about to jump out of an airplane or run 20 miles it could be useful to have an area to work out from.
What are you going to do to increase understanding or fund raise. There are several businesses out there that can help you organise a useful fundraiser. What many of these companies do is set up an event such as a parachute jump or a Fashion show fundraising where they will show you exactly what you need to do and help you to achieve your goal.
With parachute jumps this means you can get out there and get funding from individuals for your certain stunt and also means that you might be able to rope in others that might like to attempt a parachute jump for more funding. Whereas a fashion show fundraiser you promote by the fact that individuals can see fashions worn by your models and then purchase them at knock down prices. A decent evening out and fashion shopping at the same instance.
Whatever you do make sure that you get as much media coverage as you really can, before the event so that individuals can see what you are doing and for who so that you can produce as much interest as possible for your fundraising event.