Fundraise For Us...

Here are just a few ideas how you can help us to raise funds...

• Send us to all your contacts with a personal message from you stating that you support Sacred Childhoods and would really like them to join you and the foundation by looking at the website.
  
  
• If 50 people donate £2 per month you can raise over £5,000 for Sacred Childhoods. Could you persuade 50 people you know to make this small commitment?
  
  
• Organise a Dinner of Hope. Hold a dinner party at home, go out to a restaurant, have a picnic or throw a party, invite as many people as you can and tell them all about Sacred Childhoods. See if you can get a £10 donation from each.
  
  
• Become a Virtual Volunteer – if you can’t get out to Indonesia but would like to help by donating some of your time and expertise then you could help with writing, fundraising, raising awareness and much more.
  
  
• Organise an Auction of Promises. Get people to promise to do something for you such as baby-sit once a month, mow your lawn every week through the summer, or serenade a loved one’s apartment. Then auction these promises at a fundraising event.
  
  
• Do a sponsored run/swim or other activity and get people to support you in that ensuring that everyone hears about Sacred Childhoods as you go.
  
  
• Prepare a short talk or presentation. Contact local groups or schools asking them if you could give a speech to raise awareness, then encourage them to raise money for the Sacred Childhoods Foundation.
  
  
• Hold a sponsored sleep out where you and your friends can only sleep under home made shelters, to raise awareness of the children living in slums in Indonesia.
  
  
• Have a dinner party discussion. Ask eight people to dinner and ask them to each research and talk about one of the 8 ways in which Sacred Childhoods helps children (aid packages, child slavery, improving sanitation, etc). Ask everyone to propose a way in which the group could help and together pick the best idea and put it into action.
  
  
• Talk to your employer and ask him/her if the company would donate a percentage of its revenue to Sacred Childhoods. Take with you signatures of support from as many work colleagues as you can.
  
  
• Organise a flashmob (go to www.flashmob.co.uk) and organise your own Sacred Childhoods flash mob – when the group appears hand out leaflets raising awareness of the foundation.
  
  
• Organise a Sacred Childhoods drinks session in a local pub/bar and get as many people as you can to come along and discuss the ways in which Sacred Childhoods is helping children in Indonesia.  See how much awareness and donations you can raise.
  
  
• Approach your local newspaper or radio station and ask to write or speak about Sacred Childhoods.  Alternatively write to larger national newspapers and press asking them to cover a story about the foundation.
  
  
• Write to local politicians, businessmen or recognised members of the community asking them to support Sacred Childhoods. If they do not respond send another letter asking why they have declined to take responsibility.
  
  
• Think about your role in the work place and how you could effect change. If you are an events organiser pursuade your boss to advertise Sacred Childhoods instead of IBM or Vodaphone. If you work in a restaurant ask your employer if you could hold a fundraising dinner. If you are a musician, why not try writing Sacred Childhoods a theme tune. Any skill and talent is valuable.
  
  
• Gather signatures from everyone you know to say that they support the concept of collectively taking responsibility for the world’s children. Send copies to employers, polititians, the press and of course Sacred Childhoods.
  
  (ideas adapted from 365 Ways to Change the World by Micheal Norton)