Plan your event

– Decide on a fundraising option (download your fundraising pack for some great ideas and resources!)
– Pick a date, time and venue, and book everything in!
– Check the legalities, make sure you’re in the clear.

Promote your event

– Set up your fundraising page on justgiving or gofundme, and start sharing!
– Download and print our impact posters
– Share on social media with our premade social tiles
– Use our press release templates to get the word out
– Let us know you’re holding an event, so we can share too!

Pay in your funds

Ready to pay in your fundraising?
– Pay in Online
– Download the Pay in Forms to pay offline

Hold an event

This is a very simple way to fundraise, and can be great fun! The idea is you hold an event (ideas below), and collect the ticket price (or donations) for charity. These can be small events, or large – we’ve done both!

You can extend the fundraiser with games (like a raffle or tombola, or the water vs wine pull. You wrap 25 bottles of old wine bottles (with screwcaps!) filled with water in newspaper. You wrap five bottles of wine in newspaper. They all look the same. People pay to pull a bottle, if it’s water, it’s rewrapped and returned to the table, if they unwrap wine, they can keep it!).

Event ideas might include:

• A charity concert
• A bake sale
• A BBQ 
• A themed party
• A virtual movie screening
• Online, or in person quizzes
• A fun run
• An art exhibition
• A wine tasting
• Hold a murder mystery night
• A Garden Party/Sale
• A Birthday Party
• A charity cooking class
• Hold a fun jumper day
• Ask for donations for your birthday, or to celebrate your wedding

Take on a personal challenge, or challenge a group of friends!

It can be very rewarding to push yourself to do something, and even more fun to do it with a group of friends!

With a personal challenge, pick your challenge, set up a campaign page linked to the Mikaere Foundation (we like justgiving or gofundme) and ask your friends and family to sponsor you.

Personal challenges might look like:

• Riding long distances
• Running long distances(like a marathon)
• Running everyday for a month
• Run 30 5k’s in a year
• Walking long distances
• Taking on a tough event (like Tough Mudder)
• Shave your head
• Climb a mountain
• The equivalent of Lent (Dry January etc)

Group challenges are also quite fun. You can set up a ‘team’ page on justgiving, which allows you see how much your team has raised collectively, while each person has their own page. Group challenges might look like:

• A chicken nugget challenge
• A group sky dive
• A 24 hour challenge (24 hours of gaming on twitch! Making music in a concert! Relay racing!)
• Man vs Food eating challenges
• Sponsored silence
• A group inflatable 5k or Tough Mudder

Sell items

This can be very rewarding. Sell an item (anything goes!), with the proceeds going to charity. This might look like:

• Hold a silent auction, this might be things you have, things you’ve made or items that have been donated
• Selling clothes you’ve designed (such as books, tshirts or hoodies)
• Selling things you’ve made (such art, toys or jewellery)
• Hold a carboot sale or a garage sale, selling things you no longer need
• Sell old clothes on platforms such as Vinted

Corporate or Community Support

• Nominate the Mikaere Foundation as the charity of the year at your workplace, church, or school.
  
  We can provide supporting paraphernalia (such as posters etc) in your branding, if that would be helpful.
• Nominate the Mikaere Foundation for a nonuniform day at your local school or a bake sale at your office.
• Make use of local community fundraising, and nominate the Mikaere Foundation for charity grants (such as Tesco Community Grants or similar)