Fundraising Tips

To help you to help CancerCare, we are giving you some helpful tips. Helpfully you will find them easy and useful.

Why not try using justgiving.com?

Last year some Cross Bay Runners used it to help them increase the amount of sponsorship they raised. It’s easy to use - go to www.justgiving.com, go to the Start fundraising page, then follow the on screen instructions. Creating your fundraising page should take around 5 minutes — that's it!

If you do need any help please feel free to contact CancerCare and ask for “Fundraising”, we will be happy to help.

Sponsor Forms and Money

To maximise your sponsorship make sure you get your sponsors to include their name, home address, postcode and if they are UK taxpayers that they have ticked the Gift Aid box.

When you have collected the money you can do one of two things:

1) You can send a cheque to our Admin Centre at Slynedales (see address below)

2) Take it to either the Lakes Centre, Kendal or Slynedales, Lancaster.

Please return all sponsor money by 30th September 2008.

By getting your sponsors to give their home address and tick the “Gift aid it” box when they sponsor you they could increase your sponsor money without it costing them a penny extra.

If your sponsor is a UK taxpayer and they clearly write their full name, home address and postcode, we can claim tax back from the government. So, for every pound donated, we receive £1.28.