Spread the message (and the wealth)

Give a Child a Chance needs to get our message out to the wider community. The objective: raise the charity’s profile so we can do even more for Plymouth children suffering mental health problems.

This is where you come in. Maybe you can help us to organise an event, or know of a business keen to sponsor a newsworthy community project, or perhaps you have a great fundraising idea. Whatever you can offer in time, ideas and skills would be very gratefully received. If you can help out in any way, please contact Nicky Evans on nevans@ace.plymouth.sch.uk or email your interest to fundraising@giveachildachance.org.uk. You can also use all the fundraising resources on our justgiving.com page.

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The Ideas Bank

A few suggestions to get you started…

Some of the events we’ve done recently: summer fetes, ceilidhs, sporting events, charity ball, pub quiz nights and shop collections.

Things you could do yourself:

• Got a big mouth? See if people will pay you to keep it closed all day!
• Hold a heated pasty debate in your local town hall/community centre. Which are better – Cornish or Devon Pasties? Who really invented them? Blind tastings, granny’s recipes. A big bake off? Charge people to come to the show
• Guess the baby competition with photos of your work colleagues as babies
• There’s always bathing in a bath of beans. Some people actually enjoy this. Maybe that someone is you
• Walk the neighbours’ dogs, donate the proceeds
• Wash the whole street’s cars, donate the proceeds
• Do a marathon on the spot. You can do it in your own home on a running machine. Better still, do it in a public space, shopping centre etc and take donations while you run. (You’ll need permission first)
• Walk The Tamar to its source (get people to sponsor you to do it, of course)
• Get your mates together for a 5-a-side tournament. Charge friends and family to watch
• Hold a car boot sale. Either do your own stall, or set up a whole sale and charge rent to other stallholders. All rent money can go to GACAC
• Hold an 80s fashion show
• Get your boss to donate a day’s salary, answer the phones all day and learn how to do the filing
• Have a karaoke evening and get people to pay to join in, or pay you not to sing
• Guess how many xxx in a jar, letters in a document
• Do a sponsored egg throwing competition (perfect for Easter)