DELTA - Fundraising tips

Deaf Education through Talking and Listening

Helping you maximise the amount you can raise

Start early: Adopt a similarly determined and planned approach to your fundraising as you do for your training. Carry a sponsorship form with you at all times.
Ask others to help: Encourage family, friends and work colleagues to help fundraise on your behalf.
Make the most of Gift Aid: It allows us to claim an extra 28% back from the tax man. Just make sure sponsors who pay UK tax fill in their name and full address (including postcode).
Be easy to contact: Ensure your name, address and telephone numbers are clear on both sides of the sponsorship form. This way, form will be returned to you if they’re passed round the workplace.
Consider who you are going to ask: Make a list of all your family, friends and work colleagues as well as associates you know through sporting or social activity. If it helps, list them in separate sections and decide how you are going to approach them and what you want to say to them.
Face-to-face is best: It is more difficult for sponsors to say no if you’re stood in front of them. If you can’t meet them, send a letter, fax or email because they are harder to ignore. A tear-off reply slip at the bottom is also useful.
Get it matched: At work, or through colleagues in other businesses, target managers who control budgets. Approach your boss and ask if you can tell sponsors that their donation will be matched pound for pound by your company.
Have a high profile: Meet as many potential sponsors as you can. Contact your local newspaper or company newsletter and tell them about your venture.

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