Why not hold a fundraising event for the Society of St James? Holding your own event can be a rewarding challenge, but it is also a lot of fun, and the fundraising team will be on hand to offer you advice and support every step of the way.
Our supporters have already held a variety of wonderful events, from sponsored yoga sessions to music nights, and cake tasting days to speed dating evenings. So get creative, raise vital funds for our work, and most importantly, have fun!
If you are interested in organising an event, please fill in the contact form and select ‘fundraising’ in the subject menu.
We have a dedicated Corporate and Community fundraiser who is confident to organise events for/with us. She is also in a good position to facilitate you running your own event to coincide with one of ours, or completely independently.
See our ‘campaigns’ pages to have a peek at what we’re up to and find out if there is anything in there that tickles your fancy.
2012, our 40th Birthday Year!
We’re working hard in the planning of our 40th Birthday Year celebrations. We would urge you to participate in the fun and games by thinking up your own 40 related challenges and events.
Schools
Even from a surprisingly young age, children show an interest in helping those less fortunate than themselves. At harvest time we took a call from a mother whose six year old daughter wanted to ‘do something about homelessness’. This mother wanted to honour her daughter’s interest and came to us for ideas.
From 4-16 the activites that children and young people could engage themselves in will vary greatly, we love to hear all of your ideas and do all we can to support your events.
Primary schools are great venues for cake sales, collections of donated foodstuffs and toiletries at key times like harvest and Christmas, and sponsored events like sleepovers (in the school hall) and walks.
Why not hold a sponsored 40 mile event? Each group of 40 children walk 1 mile, how many 40 mile groups could happen in Hampshire in 2012?
Secondary schools can offer their pupils more autonomy, how about car washing days, putting on a play or pantomime with a raffle draw during the interval, IT based challenges like ‘gaming’ relays, sponsored sporting challenges, the world is your oyster.
Can we get 40 Southampton and Hampshire school groups running a fundraising event for our 40th Birthday?
Community Groups
Community groups from Beaver Scouts to Youth Clubs, Girl Guides to Craft Groups, Yoga Classes to Church Clubs have all supported us over the years.
With so many options available, how will you include the number 40 in your community group fundraising in 2012?
A stitch along, a craft sale, art exhibition with auction, a cycle challenge, join in with our ONE BIG Sleepout event? How about a golf day for us or a charity football tournament? Or what about a giant poker tournament with some of the buy in going to us? You really are limited only by your imagination with these great ways to raise funds for our work whilst having fun.
Whatever you decide to do let us know and we will be happy to help out with promotion for your event.
Businesses
Hampshire is a hotbed for creative business.
There are a variety of ways that businesses can involve themselves in fundraising activity from signing up to payroll giving to team building days.
Many businesses choose to select a ‘charity of the year’ who will be the beneficiaries of all of their annual efforts. There’s never been a better time to choose the Society of St James and to challenge your business, large or small, to find 40 ways to get stuck in.
