Hints 'n Tips on Fundraising

Organising your Fundraising Event

The World Land Trust needs everyone who really cares about saving wildlife. After learning about the importance of saving critically threatened habitats such as tropical forests and coral reefs, we are sure you will want to get together and raise funds to help us save them. You can help in very many different ways, and remember, fundraising can be fun!

MAKE A START by getting together with friends who you know share your love of wildlife and agree among yourselves that you are going to do something to raise funds. THEN go to a teacher who you think may be willing to help you.

Your teacher will be able to tell you the best way forward but you will need some ideas about how you can raise funds. There are lots of different ways you can do this, and make sure that you have a really good time too.

Fundraising ideas

Check out our Top 20 Hints for fundraising for some great and fun ways of raising funds.

The World Land Trust also runs a "Land for Cartridges" ink jet cartridge recycling scheme. Perhaps you could organise a collection of empty printer cartridges?

DON'T FORGET TO TAKE PHOTOS! See yourself on the WLT website's own Fundraising Hall of Fame where photos of you and your friends fundraising for the World Land Trust are displayed. Send us your pictures and an account of what you are doing (by email if possible) and then keep an eye on this space!

Raising Funds Online - Using Justgiving.com

World Land Trust has teamed up with justgiving.com so that all our fundraisers can raise money quickly and easily online with their own personalised web pages.

What is Justgiving?

Justgiving is a website that enables you to raise money to your favourite cause online. You simply follow a step- by-step process and before you know it you have created your very own fundraising page.

Why use Justgiving?

Setting up a fundraising page with Justgiving is quick, easy and free, and making donations is 100% secure. Receiving donations from Justgiving is tax efficient for the World Land Trust and reduces our administration costs.

Tell your friends and family about your page and they will be able to donate online with a credit or debit card - so no more running around with paper sponsorship forms, or chasing cheques and cash after your event.

How to use Justgiving

To set up your page today visit www.justgiving.com/worldland/raisemoney or call justgiving.com on 0800 028 6183 for more details.

Use Justgiving to fundraise when you

• take part in a sponsored event - or create your own.
• celebrate your wedding. Asking people to donate to WLT on Justgiving makes a truly green wedding list!
• celebrate your birthday.
• wish to raise money in memory of a loved one.

Tips on making the most of your fundraising page

• Personalise your page as much as possible: Add photos and write a personalised message.
• Email your close friends first. They tend to be more generous and encourage future donors to give more.
• Contact your local paper, radio and TV stations and tell them about your fundraising efforts.
• Justgiving has a widget that helps you spread the word on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
• If you are completing an event, write to your friends again with an update on your activities after the completion of the event, as about 20% of donations on Justgiving come in after the event has taken place.

More tips on using Justgiving can be found in our pdf document, for easy print-out:

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When You Have Completed Your Fundraising Event

If you have raised funds online WLT will receive your money automatically. If you have raised your funds offline, please complete a donation form and send your cheque, payable to the World Land Trust, to:

World Land Trust
Blyth House, Bridge Street
Halesworth
Suffolk
IP19 8AB

You can also make a donation online

The World Land Trust's Pledge to You

For every £50 you raise, we will save an acre of wilderness on your behalf. Furthermore, we will send you a special School Certificate recording your valued support for you to display. We will also send you regular updates on how the project is progressing.

Help with Fundraising

If you would like more of our leaflets, newsletters and wall charts to help with your fundraising, just contact us and we will send them to you immediately.