Thank you for considering Amelia’s Rainbow, we rely on our community to help us make a difference for the children in Dorset. If you wish to fundraise or donate please do get in touch as we would love to hear what you’re thinking. We can always help or advise you how to make the most out of your ideas.
You may have an idea of what you want, or you just know you want to help. Whatever you are thinking we have some inspiration for you, you’ll find some ideas here on the website or you are welcome to get in touch:
- Host an Event – You can organise your own event for family and friends to take part in. Think dinner party, coffee morning, quiz or 5-a-side. Think of who would come, what you all enjoy and could it raise money. Events can be ridiculously good fun, but also hard work so get in touch as we have a wealth of experience to share.
- Challenge Yourself – You can take on one of our challenges https://ameliasrainbow.com/blog/category/events/ and get sponsored for your efforts, or you can sign up to your own physical or mental challenge and choose to raise funds through sponsorship.
- Attend an Event – https://ameliasrainbow.com/blog/category/events/. Throughout the year we host some amazing fundraising events to help us fund some of our bigger projects. We enjoy hosting quizzes, fun days or even murder mysteries. Our team are really social and love meeting supporters so what better way to raise money than come along and have some fun. Even better you can support us and not have to organise anything, let us do it for you!
- Work It! – Have a chat at work and see if you can organise some workplace fundraising Corporate Fundraising or events. Business support has been crucial to us and we couldn’t support families without businesses choosing us as their charity of the year or sponsoring us.
- Be the Change – You can collect your small change and encourage your friends and family to do the same – small change really adds up and makes a huge difference!
- Prize Fundraiser – Raid those cupboards, we all have an unwanted present, bottle or prize in our houses. We are always needing raffle prizes at our events. If you are part of a business or household that could help, we would be so relieved and grateful!
Fundraising Materials:
Once you’ve decided how you’re going to fundraise, make sure you ask for our fundraising pack which is full of helpful hints and tips, safety advice and all the essential information you need to know if you’re planning your own challenge or event. We can provide you with materials to help with your fundraising, collection tins and buckets, sponsorship forms even bunting, balloons and charity t-shirts*. Please contact the fundraising team on fundraising@ameliasrainbow.org to request your materials
Our Top Tips
- Do what you love, set yourself a challenge but you must enjoy what you’re doing to make it a massive success and to make it fun for you.
- Plan Plan Plan -Don’t leave it to the last minute to run an event or ask for sponsorship – the more organised you are, the more relaxed you will feel!
- Ask your employer if they can contribute towards or match-fund your fundraising efforts.
- Sharing is caring! Spread the word of what you’re doing via your social media channels and your network. Tell everyone who we are, why you are supporting us and what you’re doing. This helps us raise awareness too (#please #thankyou!)
- An online fundraising page is an easy way to collect donations. We recommend using Virgin Money – it’s cheaper than some other sites. It is an easy way to encourage sponsorship and all the funds come straight to us so there’s no need for you to worry about collecting sponsorship. If you are a traditionalist though and need forms, you can request them here Contact.
- If someone can’t attend your event or sponsor you maybe they have an unwanted present or prizes they can donate to you to help raise funds.
