Porchlight employee fundraising pack

Employee Fundraising Pack

Working together to change people’s lives

THANK YOU for choosing to support Porchlight. Organising fundraising at work is fun, easy and sociable! This pack gives you all the tips, advice and information you will need to get started.

Please let us know what you’re planning – we might be able to come along on the day and talk to your colleagues about our work. And don’t forget to send us photos – we’d love to see what you’ve done and share your support via social media.

Get in touch:Fundraising and Communications: Corporate Partnerships, Porchlight, 2nd Floor Watling Chambers, 18-19 Watling Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2UAT: 01227 813199E: [email protected]

Thank you

Included with this pack: Sponsorship Form

Virgin Money Giving step-by-step guide

Money Return Form

Fundraising Agreement

Events & Volunteering

Please visit www.porchlight.org.uk/get-involved/fundraise/events-and-challenges/ where further information about up and coming challenges will be updated.

Orbit AbseilLocation: Arcelor Mittal Orbit, 3 Thornton Street, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London, E20 2ADInfo: Take on the UK’s tallest sculpture and abseil down the 114m high Arcelor Mittal Orbit in Stratford. £300 minimum sponsorship target. Visit our website for more information.

Boat maintenance and sailing Location: Chatham, Otterham CreekInfo: A day’s work, as part of a team, painting, clearing and re-stocking and moving the boat from the dry dock to mooring. There will be motivational sessions and shared packed lunch, or fish and chips.

Residential excursionLocation: Scout site, OrpingtonInfo: Various team building activities including orienteering, making fires and cooking.

Employability sessionsLocation: Hostels/At your offices/Porchlight head officeInfo: Help with screening sessions, writing CVs, helping people to find work and assist with mock interviews.

English and maths trainingLocation: HostelsInfo: Helping people (1-2-1 or group work) to learn to read or to give extra support to someone doing a particular course.

KM Assault CourseLocation: Fowlmead Country Park, DealInfo: Teams of six will tackle a number of obstacles including balance beams, a rope walk, a water jump and a tyre wall. Any sponsorship will be split 70% to Porchlight and 30% to the KM.

KM Bike RideLocation: Baypoint Club, Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, Kent CT13 9QLInfo: Choose from a gentler 50km route or a more challenging 100km course, heading out from Sandwich along the beautiful Kent coastline. Visit our website for more information and to register and remember to choose Porchlight as your charity.

Events & Volunteering

For information on any of the above opportunities, contact: [email protected]

KM Folkestone AbseilLocation: Leas Cliff, Folkestone, CT20 2DZInfo: See the English Channel from a totally unique vantage point! £12 registration fee and any sponsorship you raise will be split 70% to Porchlight and 30% to the KM. Visit our website for more information and to register and remember to choose Porchlight as your charity.

Mount Ephraim 10KLocation: Mount Ephraim Gardens, Hernhill, Faversham, ME13 9TXInfo: Porchlight’s own 10K run takes you around and through the beautiful Mount Ephraim estate and the surrounding countryside. Entry fees: £14 attached (to a running club), £17 unattached, £20 on the day. Race entry also secures you free family admission to the gardens. Visit our website for more information and to register.

AllotmentLocation: Webbs Garden, Canterbury and Dover AllotmentInfo: Digging, planting, weeding and working alongside our clients. This requires basic gardening skills.

Morning street outreachLocation: Maidstone, Ashford, Swale, Canterbury, Shepway, Thanet and Dover Info: Finding rough sleepers, winning their trust, providing them with information about Porchlight and instigating assessments.

Street gamesLocation: Canterbury, Whitstable, Dover, TBCInfo: Assisting with the setting up of various street games including softball, football, basketball, rugby, frisbee.

Creating Christmas at a local hostel/or assisting with our clients’ Christmas PartyLocation: Ashford, Sittingbourne, Tonbridge, Canterbury, Dover, Thanet, SwaleInfo: Turn up with Christmas decorations to decorate one of our hostels, help cook Christmas dinner, share mince pies or deliver presents or hampers for our clients.

JANUARYEVENTS

Party 4 Porchlight

VOLUNTEERINGDelivering food and clothing to our hostels

Employability sessionEnglish and maths training

Street games Morning street outreach sessions

FEBRUARYEVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightMud n Madness

VOLUNTEERINGEmployability sessions

English and maths trainingStreet games

Morning street outreach sessionsSailing preparation

MARCHEVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightKM Maidstone Abseil

Orbit abseil



AllotmentMorning street outreach sessions

Residential assistance

APRILEVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightOrbit abseil

KM Bike Ride




MAYEVENTS

Party 4 Porchlight

VOLUNTEERINGStreet games

Employability sessionsEnglish and maths training

Street gamesAllotment

Morning street outreach sessions

JUNEEVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightPicnic 4 Porchlight

KM Folkestone AbseilKM Charity Walk



Allotment

Events & volunteering calendar

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Events & volunteering calendar

JULYEVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightKM Dragon Boat Race




AUGUSTEVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightMount Ephraim 10K




SEPTEMBEREVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightAshford Rotary Ramble




OCTOBEREVENTS

Party 4 PorchlightPurple 4 PorchlightKM Assault Course




NOVEMBEREVENTS

Party 4 Porchlight

VOLUNTEERINGEmployability sessionsPennies 4 Porchlight


Morning street outreach sessionsDECEMBER

EVENTSParty 4 Porchlight


Pennies 4 PorchlightEmployability sessions

English and maths trainingChristmas dinner


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Get some inspiration!

To help you choose what fundraising would best suit you and your colleagues we have put together some ideas in the following categories:

Around the office

Auction of favours

Team building

Social

Getting customers, clients and contacts involved

Around the officeThere are many simple and easy ways you can fundraise around the office and if you don’t have an idea in mind then try out one of these:• Auction of favours – Who will pay the most

for the boss to make them a cup of tea for a week?

• Bacon sandwich sale• Bad hair/tie day• Book and DVD sale/library• Cake sale• Collection boxes• Dress down day• Glam it up day• Guess the baby photo competition

• Lock your boss in a box (a cupboard will do!) and don’t let him out until he’s phoned enough people and blagged enough donations!

• Lunch run• Office lottery• Pay to play CDs• Pay not to work for a day• Pay roll giving• Raffle off an extra day of annual leave• Sponsored give something up…• Swear jar• Sweet trolley/box (depending on location)• Sweepstakes• Weirdy beardy

Get some inspiration!

Get social and have funHaving fun with your colleagues can be a great motivator and a fun way to bond with the people you work with. Enjoy yourself with one of these fundraising ideas:• After work film screenings• Coffee morning• Computer games competition like a Wii

challenge• Fancy dress pub crawl• Fashion show• Formal dinner and dance• Host a dinner party• Party! Christmas/Easter/Halloween• Poker night• Pub quiz• Swishing party• Talent show• Treat hunt/Geo cache

Team buildingFundraising for Porchlight can be a fun and fantastic team building activity – you can get together and do something either sporty or challenging or both! Here are some ideas:Sporty• Enter a run as a team • Enter a cycling race • Take part in a swimming event• Dragon Boat Racing• Zumbathon/Strictly Off• Football, softball or netball tournament• Sports day• Paintballing• Enter an assault courseChallenging• Skydive• Abseiling

Getting customers, clients and contacts involvedInviting your customers, clients and contacts to get involved with your fundraising can be a great way to boost what you raise and also promote your company image and profile. Here are a few ways you can involve others:• Christmas cards• Collection tins – on shop counters and in reception areas• Corporate challenge• Donation on customer surveys• Point of sale items • A golf day for clients, contacts and suppliers• A quiz night• A formal dinner• Fine wine and cheese tasting networking event• Online auction• Sponsorship requests

Charity of the Year

Does your team, department or company choose a Charity of the Year? Why not nominate Porchlight this year?

It’s a great way to unite everyone towards a common goal, promote team spirit and boost morale. We will work with you to develop an activity and PR plan. We can help you to

motivate colleagues by arranging talks and project visits, as well as providing fundraising materials and advice.

We’re proud of our successful Charity of the Year partnerships and will work with you to find the right Porchlight project for your support.

Making a positive difference to our community is a core value at Sainsbury’s. My colleagues were particularly impressed by the work that Porchlight does. We were delighted to have them as our Charity of the Year. Sainsbury’s Canterbury

It has always been important to us that we adopt a charity that supports those in need in our city and Porchlight was top of the list as they work tirelessly, helping those who are living on our city streets or face the threat of homelessness. We know every penny we raise will help make a difference to those they support. Best Western Abbots Barton Hotel

The Picnic for Porchlight was a great way to have run and raise awareness Piers Norman, Barclays Bank PLC

Fundraising at work

Picnic 4 PorchlightPicnics are the perfect way to celebrate summer, and changing the lives of homeless people locally can be as simple as having lunch outdoors!It’s as easy as 1-2-3!1 Get together with your favourite people for a

picnic any time during the Summer2 Ask your guests for a donation to Porchlight3 Have fun and enjoy!If Picnic 4 Porchlight is for you, then contact us for a fundraising pack and to register your event.

There are lots of way you can support Porchlight at work. Why not try one of these?

Purple 4 PorchlightStand out from the crowd and do something Purple 4 Porchlight on World Homeless Day (October 10th). You could wear something purple to work, or organise a purple cake sale – let your imagination run free, anything goes as long as it has a purple theme!

Sponsored Sleep OutFancy braving the British weather and organising a sponsored sleep out with colleagues? Contact us today to receive your Sleep Out Fundraising Pack full of tips and advice for a successful event.

Runway Training bed down for the night, and raise over £1,500!

Christmas Fundraising Winter is a tough time for people who are rough sleeping. Could your team support us this winter by linking your Christmas social activities to fundraising for Porchlight or by donating their last hour’s wages of the year?

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Step-by-step!

If you would like to know more about anything you have read in this pack, please get in touch:

Fundraising and Communications: Corporate Partnerships Porchlight, 2nd Floor Watling Chambers, 18-19 Watling Street, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2UA

T: 01227 813199 • E: [email protected] • www.porchlight.org.uk

Facebook.com/Porchlight1974 Twitter.com/Porchlight1974

Before your activity:1. Decide what event you will do,

when it will take place and work with colleagues to decide who will do what.

2. Agree a fundraising target and plan how you intend to raise this money.

3. Advertise your activity. You could put up posters, send emails, or contact your local newspaper?

4. Check if your event needs insurance*

If you are using Porchlight’s name, please include our registered charity number: 267116. Please don’t download our logo from our website – contact us and we will send you a high-resolution version of our logo and guidelines for use.

Registered charity no. 267116

* Porchlight is unable to provide insurance, and we cannot accept liability for any injury, loss or damage during the event or matters arising from it.

After your activity:1. Collect all outstanding monies.

2. Complete the money return form and send it back to Porchlight with the money raised (please do not send cash).

3. You may also want to send a press release with photos to the local press – please let us know if we can help with this.

We have lots of materials that can help you fundraise! Call or email us if you would like leaflets, balloons, posters, stickers, collection tins/buckets, T-shirts, or to book out our pop-up banners for your event.

You can also download extra materials from our website at www.porchlight.org.uk/fundraising-resources

Above all, have fun and thank you for supporting Porchlight

Homelessness can happen to anyone. Often it’s a series of events that spiral out of control. The people we support tell us that being homeless, or facing the threat of losing your home, is frightening, degrading and soul-destroying.

At Porchlight we believe that everyone has a right to a safe and secure home. Each year we support around 2,500 children and adults to change their lives.

We help people who are rough sleeping to access housing. We also provide supported accommodation and offer advice and support to young people, adults and families to prevent homelessness.

The money you raise will help us to support homeless, disadvantaged and vulnerable people in your local community.

Porchlight got me off the streets. I don’t know where I would have been without them. Lisa, 16

£40 Could provide a room and staff support to a 16 year old for a day, to help them turn their life around in one of our accommodation projects.

Being homeless is as bad as it seems. The rough sleeper team helped me find accommodation. I was brought back from the brink of becoming another homeless statistic, another death on the street. Now I have a flat and for the first time in a long time I have the chance to focus on the future.

Shaun£500 Could pay for the rent deposit for someone who is moving into their own independent flat.

What we do

Your support can change lives like these:

Having a roof over my head has allowed me to get my life back together. John£1200 Could cover the cost of calls to the Porchlight 24-hour helpline for one year.

Without Porchlight I would be homeless. They have given me back my inner strength. My life was falling apart and they gave me hope. Thank you. Jenna , 27£100 Could provide 5 welcome packs (of food, toiletries and cleaning products) for people moving into one of our hostels

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Porchlight employee fundraising pack