“I am so grateful to the staff, the general environment, the surroundings and consider myself to be truly lucky.”Day care patient All quotations and photographs are used with permission.
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Fundraising and social networking
Access to Web sites providing a wealth of information about fundraising – how to go about it, tips and hints, ideas. Also includes charity challenge event information, setting up a Web page for a sponsored event and social media websites that may help you...
www.How2fundraise.org
How2fundraise is the most comprehensive, free online resource for the UK’s 16 million volunteer fundraisers.
www.justgiving.com
Justgiving is a fantastically easy way of collecting sponsorship money. Anyone can set up a fundraising page to fundraise for St Ann’s Hospice, links can then be easily emailed and posted to blogs or social networking sites. People can sponsor you online via the site and the money goes straight to St Ann’s!
www.doitforcharity.com
Visit the site for all sorts of different charity challenges that can be done for St Ann’s Hospice from parachute jumps to overseas treks.
National Association of Hospice Fundraisers
The National Association of Hospice Fundraisers is the U.K. professional association for fundraisers working in the hospice movement.
Gift Aid toolkit
The HMRC have produced a ‘Gift Aid toolkit’ on CDROM. To order your copy visit their website.
Institute of Fundraising
This site provides online Codes of Fundraising Practice for a range of different fundraising activities.
Facebook – St Ann’s Hospice
Join our facebook group to keep up-to-date with our latest news and events, to promote your fundraising event or to make contact with other supporters of St Ann’s Hospice.
Facebook – Manchester Midnight Walk
Join our Manchester Midnight Walk facebook group and share your training/fundraising tips, keep informed about the event and see who else will be there on the night.
Tweet your friends and tell them all about your fundraising activities (in 160 characters!). If you are supporting the Manchester Midnight Walk, follow us at www.twitter.com/MidnightWalk to get involved.
Myspace
If you are supporting St Ann’s Hospice and already have a Myspace page – let all your friends know about what you are doing to support us.
Bebo
Use bebo to let everyone know what you are doing to support St Ann’s Hospice – spread the word!
Gumtree
Blogging is also another fantastic way of promoting your events to the local community. Gumtree is a popular place to talk about what you are doing.
Picasa – photos online
All of our fundraising and other photos are online using a website called Picasa (powered by Google). You could start your own photo album to show off your fundraising for St Ann’s, or send us your pics and we can add them on for you.
YouTube
You might already YouTube for watching videos of your favourite bands, but why not take a video of your fundraising activities and put it on for everyone to see – you might become a YouTube star! We have our own YouTube channel so send us your video too and we can add it on...
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