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The basics of raising money for your cause is to split your efforts to online and offline fundraising.

Both of these require different tactics and both should be implemented so that you can raise as much as possible. Lets talk through the two...

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Richard Kara

Raising money online will be a massive part of your fundraising efforts. Some people JUST focus on fundraising online as it's quick, relativley easy and you have a huge reach thanks now to social networks.

All it takes is for you to set up a fundraising page (approved sites to be listed soon) and then share the URL with friends and family.

What's of critical importance here is that you craft a great message in your fundraising campaign that really explains what you are raising money for and how the money will be used. Many sites also allow you to offer thoughtful rewards in exchange for donations and this has helped many fundraisers raise a lot of money.

The way you communicate your online fundraiser is also of critical importance.

There are hundreds (or even thousands!) of fundraising ideas that will help you raise money offline. I'm not going to go into every idea but here's a list of things that you can look into further if it sounds like it will work for you. Some of these involve charging an entrace fee whereas others involve the sale of 'stuff':

  Art Sale / Auction   Auction of Promises Made By Participants   Bingo   Bucket or Street Collections outside stores and in shopping malls   Burns Night Celebrations   Cake Bake   Car Boot sales   Car Wash   Carol Singing   Celebrity Speaker Event  Challenge Events   Charity Stall for Sales of Second Hand items   Cheese & Wine Evenings   Chess Competition   Christmas Card & calendar sales   Christmas Fair   Clay Pigeon Shoot   Clothes Swap - ask people to donate those unwanted items with their price tags still on  Coffee Morning   Concerts   Cookery Demo or Themed Food Evening   Country Walk or Ramble   Craft Fair   Crazy Golf Match   Disco   Duck Races   Easter Egg Hunt   Face Painting   Family Portrait / Photo   Fancy dress party   Fashion Shows   Football Match / Tournament   Fun Runs   Garden Parties   Gladiators / Sumo Wrestling With Cool Sumo Suits  Golf Events   Host an event – Dance / Fireworks/ New Year Party, etc   Karaoke Evening   Sponsored Litter Picking  Make Overs   Mufti, Dress Down or Non-Uniform Day   Murder Mystery evening   Music Quiz   Mystery Tour / Trip   Paintballing   Pancake Day party   Parachute Jump   Plant Sale   Playstation / console competition  Poetry Competition   Pub Tournaments – e.g. darts, Skittles, darts, pool, cards   Quit It – give up chocolate / smoking / etc for a week / month   Quiz Night   Raffles   Readathon - ideal for school children  Run a Marathon   Santa Letters writing   Santas Grotto   Scavenger Hunt   Selling Christmas Gifts from Catalogues   Seventies Night / Disco   Sponsored Anything - Head Shave, Silence, Hot Tub a Thon, And Anything Else  Talent Show   Ten Pin Bowling  Tennis tournament   Treasure Hunts   Trips & Outings   Unwanted Gift Sale – perfect after Christmas   Wine Tastings   Salsa Night   Welly Throwing Competition

As you can probably tell, there is an endless range of things you can do to raise money offline. If you have any case studies of would like to write a guest post about a fundraising idea, please contact me.

We also have a section dedicated to specific causes that you can raise money for. Check this out for more specific fundraising ideas related to topics such as raising money for cancer, fundraising for medical expenses, and more.

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