FESTIVE FUNDRAISING GUforIDE Take a look inside our festive fundraising pack everything you need to fundraise this Christmas.
‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY SO WHY NOT SPREAD THE FESTIVE SPIRIT AND GET INVOLVED IN SOME CHRISTMAS FUNDRAISING SOME FESTIVE FUNDRAISING IDEAS: • Office iPod jukebox - pay to play
• Christmas karaoke night
• How many chocolate coins in the jar?
• Guess the weight of the Christmas Pudding
• Pin the nose on Rudolph
• Secret Santa with a donation to Teenage Cancer Trust
• Christmas bake off • Mulled wine and mince pie party • Buy and sell Teenage Cancer Trust Christmas cards from: www.teenagecancertrustshop.org • Hold a winter talent show • Festive film night
• Snow day sweepstakes • Gift wrapping for donations • Office Christmas lunch, served by your managers • Swap the swear box for a Grinch jar • Carol singing
• ‘Tinsel off’ - compete with your colleagues to decorate your office space • Host an office breakfast - sell winter fruit jams, cinnamon fruit bread and egg nog or smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and bucks fizz! • Organise a Christmas raffle with your unwanted presents from last year or source raffle prizes such as a bottle of wine, tickets to the theatre or dinner for two. • And of course... Wear your Christmas Clobber!
SHOW OFF YOUR CHRISTMAS CLOBBER
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Throw on your Christmas Clobber for Teenage Cancer Trust or get creative and decorate old woolly jumpers, hats and scarves with a fun festive theme
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Wear your Christmas Clobber to school, work or Christmas party and donate £1 to help young people with cancer
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Email festive photos of you, your friends and colleagues to
[email protected] and we’ll feature them in our Christmas Clobber gallery
FANCY A FESTIVE CHALLENGE? SIGN UP FOR A SANTA DASH THIS DECEMBER
SANTA DASH Santa dashes are held all over the country leading up to the festive season. If you are interested in taking part please get in touch and we can find one in your area. WWW.TEENAGECANCERTRUST.ORG
SIGN UP OR EMAIL US FOR MORE INFO:
[email protected]
WHAT WE DO There’s never a good time to get cancer, but for a teenager the timing is particularly cruel. Young people can get some of the most rare and aggressive forms of cancer. Without the work of Teenage Cancer Trust, young people with cancer would be treated alongside children or elderly patients at the end of their lives. Being away from your normal life, friends and environment at such a vulnerable time is the last thing they need. Teenage Cancer Trust is the only UK charity dedicated to improving the quality of life and chances of survival for the seven young people aged between 13 and 24 diagnosed with cancer every day. We know that what they do need is to be treated together, by teenage cancer experts, in an environment tailored for them. So we develop specialist units within NHS hospitals that do just this. We want every young person with cancer to have access to this specialist support, no matter where they live. However, for every young person Teenage Cancer Trust helps there’s another they cannot currently reach. We hope that by 2020 every young person with cancer in the UK will have access to this expert support from the moment they hear the word cancer. To achieve this, Teenage Cancer Trust needs to raise over £80 million in the next five years to support current and new services.
WHAT THE MONEY YOU RAISE COULD BUY... £20...
£100…
£10,000...
pays for an hour with a specialist Teenage Cancer Trust Youth Support Coordinator to help a teenager through their cancer treatment
Could enable a young person to come together with 29 others for a music therapy workshop, arranged each year backstage at Teenage Cancer Trust’s concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.
Could pay for 2,500 students in local secondary schools, colleges and universities to have an engaging and upbeat cancer awareness session from Teenage Cancer Trust’s education team on how to spot the early signs of cancer and to talk about health living.
£25... Could provide an hour of vital nursing care by a teenage cancer specialist who understands what it is like for a young person fighting cancer, to help them feel less frightened about what is ahead.
£200… Could bring the families of young people with cancer or bereaved families together to support one another so they do not feel so isolated through a family support network.
£30...
£250…
Could buy a console game for patients to play with their friends, or a complementary therapy session to help young people recover from the stress of treatment.
Could pay for a young person to attend Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual “Find your Sense of Tumour” weekend conference at Center Parcs and allows them to meet others with cancer, often for the first time.
£80… Could provide a flip camera for a young person to share their story with others on the JTV Cancer Support website, which Teenage Cancer Trust partly fund, to help others through the pain of cancer.
£2,000... Could fund the activity budget for one of Teenage Cancer Trust’s Youth Support Coordinators for one year, enabling them to organise arts and crafts sessions, music lessons, discussion groups, pampering sessions, games, and party events on the unit as well as day trips outside of the unit.
TAKING PART IN AN EVENT? - Send us your pictures - Email
[email protected] - Tweet us @teenagecancer - Facebook us at facebook.com/teenagecancertrust - Get in contact and tell us about your fundraising
HOW TO PAY IN YOUR MONEY 1. Post it to this address with a covering note of who you are and how the money was raised. T eenage Cancer Trust, 93 Newman Street, London, W1T 3EZ 2. Bank transfer; ask for the bank details from our Supporter Care team:
[email protected] 3. Call us on 0207 612 0370 to make a payment over the phone.
THANK YOU FOR HELPING US TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CANCER CONTACT US:
