Virgin London Marathon – Sunday 13 April 2014

Reaching your fundraising target can be a challenge, but don’t worry as we have some useful tips to help you plan and coordinate your fundraising.

Check out our seasonal fundraising ideas to ensure that your fundraising is fresh and on trend.

For our 2013 runners, all sponsorship should be collected and returned to Breast Cancer Care by Monday 22 July 2013. (Date for 2014 TBC).

Winter fundraising tips

Spring fundraising tips

Summer fundraising tips

Autumn fundraising tips

Social networks

Remember, it’s your network of friends, family, colleagues and contacts who will support you with your training and fundraising. Keep them updated every step of the way with your Facebook profile, blog or Twitter account.  

Tell them how your training is going (with pictures for added impact) and let them know how you’re getting on with your fundraising target. You can even upload pictures on the day to show everyone your progress along the route! If you follow Breast Cancer Care on Facebook and Twitter, we’ll keep you up to date with the goings-on here, and keep you on track with support and tips.

Fundraising materials

Download your very own fundraising planner to follow to ensure that your fundraising activities run as smoothly as possible.

Use this downloadable poster to promote your fundraising events.

Online fundraising

Now you can raise sponsorship without all the hassle. No more dealing with cash and cheques, no more chasing friends after the event. Simply create a free, online fundraising page, personalise it with a photo and message, and email it to your friends, family and work colleagues. They can donate quickly and securely online with a credit or debit card. Online donations from UK taxpayers are worth almost a third more to us with Gift Aid, which can be claimed on online donations. Follow the instructions to set up your unique JustGiving page or Virgin Money Giving page.

Once you’ve created your page, email the link to friends, family, colleagues and classmates. You can even add the JustGiving application or Virgin Money Giving page to your Facebook page to make it even easier for your friends to donate.

For more information or help setting up your page, visit www.justgiving.com or www.virginmoneygiving.com.

Please note: Money will only be attributed to the person who set up the online fundraising or Virgin Money Giving page, so please do not set up joint pages as we are unable to share the money between several people.

How do I pay in my sponsorship?

There are few ways in which your sponsorship money will reach us:

JustGiving

If you have decided to create a Justgiving fundraising page, then you do not need to do anything as all your sponsorship money will automatically be sent directly to our bank account. Please note that it can take up to four weeks to show up on your fundraising record at Breast Cancer Care.

Cheque

Please send all cheques to the address below:

Breast Cancer Care Events
Admail 4161
London 
SE1 0ZB           

Don’t forget to write your name, Breast Cancer Care number and event name on the back of your cheques.

Online

You can also pay money in directly on the Breast Cancer Care website. If you use our online paying in function then please remember to send us your sponsorship forms so that we can claim Gift Aid.

Enclosed in your welcome pack, which you will receive when you register for your event, will be your pay-in forms. You can send them to us along with your sponsorship money and sponsorship forms. Please do not send cash in the post.

Once you join Team Breast Cancer Care we will provide you with further fundraising tips and ideas!