Sponsorship Drive
Welcome to the Karting Challenge 2008 sponsorship page, thank you for taking up the challenge and supporting Community Links! Your sponsorship will make a huge difference to our vital work.
Friends and Family are often the first step in raising sponsorship. Everything you do to make people aware of your fundraising will have a positive effect. Your friends and family may even organise an event for you and take one of your sponsorship forms around their friends. Your contacts might rally round your challenge and spread the word bringing in lots more potential fundraising prospects.
Community Links can help you spread the word with sponsorship forms and Community Links supporting literature, please get in touch to be sent some.
Justgiving is a great website where you can get sponsorship online. The benefits include an easy to email advert to all your potential sponsors, who then sponsor you online so you don’t have to chase them for their contributions after your challenge. Even your friends and family abroad can sponsor you!
Make sure your first sponsor on the form or your Just Giving page pledges a large amount, others will follow their lead! Always keep a sponsorship form with you; you never know who you will bump in to. And personalize your email signature with your Just Giving page details.
Fellow employees – Advertise your challenge on your company intranet, linking colleagues to your Justgiving site and make the most of company publications and any local newsletters. Personalise your email signature with your challenge and justgiving page and put a collecting tin at reception. Think of creative ways of rallying in-house funds. Why not try organising a department quiz (get in touch for a copy of our ‘how to’ guide complete with questions!) a race night, or an auction night – your company might sponsor your event or donate prizes! These events give your colleagues a great night out and you can raise lots of sponsorship from the entrance fee.
Company matching – Ask your company for support, by matching what you or your team raises – it doubles your achievement.
Make sure your supporters know how much you appreciate them, say thank you at every opportunity!
If you want any more help or advice, or would like a full fundraising pack, please email Katie Nicholls or call 020 7473 9661