Fundraising this year

The 2007/2008 CARE Challenge Series has raised £1.1 million… thanks to you.
Here we look at some examples of innovative fundraising ideas from this year’s teams and the fantastic ways in which that money might be spent.

Imagine how many pub quizzes, cake sales, sponsored runs and 5-aside football matches it has taken to raise £1.1 million. Teams from the 2008 Challenge Series have put a serious amount of effort into fundraising, made a huge difference to CARE and it looks like everyone’s had a lot of fun along the way….

Jan Dalton’s team from Starbucks organised a £10k run between 4 of their stores. A number of other resourceful Starbucks teams arranged coffee tasting events at stores after-hours.

A team from Deloittes had a successful fundraiser in the shape of a poker night, while Anadarko seemed to raise a surprising amount of money by selling wet sponges to throw at the company’s managers!

Osbourne-Clarke hosted a quiz night in three cities simultaneously, with a video link between venues! This event also included an auction of promises where kindhearted (and brave) volunteers generously donated their time and their skills in exchange for donations!

Teams from Kaplan, IOP Publishing and Moneycorp all arranged local gigs with great bands, and Stock Woolstencroft arranged a T-shirt designing competition, the winning design being worn on their cycle from London to Paris.

CTC consulting also raised fantastic sums during their office move by selling all of their unwanted IT equipment online instead of throwing it away- helping them along the way to their total of £12,000!

From car-boot sales to corporate sponsorship, from cajoling suppliers to selling cakes to colleagues- teams from the 2008 Series can be extremely proud of their efforts. The prize for the team raising the most money goes to Atrium Underwriting Plc for their monumental effort in raising £25,000.

To give you an idea of the huge difference your money is already making….

£1,000 could help to rebuild a school in Zambia, train the teachers and provide vulnerable children with books.
£2,000 could provide 50 chicks for 16 families. This covers the cost of the chicks, chicken house materials, feed for six months until the chicks start to produce eggs, vaccination against diseases and transportation of poultry supplies.
£4,000 could implement a water and sanitation campaign across
37 schools covering approx 4,650 students.
£6,000 could purchase home care kits to restore cleanliness and dignity to 100 chronically ill AIDS patients for up to 3 years.
£7,000 could set up 7 village schools in India, including teacher training and materials.
£8,000 could supply 40 families with one of the largest assets a farming household in the developing world can acquire – a cow.
£10,000 could buy life-saving kits with enough essential drugs and pharmaceutical equipment to treat 100,000 people for one month in emergency zones.
£12,000 could pay to train 20 communities in new farming techniques
in Peru.
£14,000 could pay the salaries for 1 year for 2 health development workers in Lesotho.
£16,000 could buy 4 rooftop water tanks for vulnerable families in great need of water in Jordan.
£18,000 could rehabilitate 2 schools in Zambia and provide teacher and social worker training to help orphans and children deal with the effects of HIV and AIDS.
£20,000 could build 2 haffirs (reservoirs) to collect rainwater to supply 7500 people for the entire dry season (7months) in the Sudan.
£24,000 could pay for the rehabilitation of a water storage system in a school in Kenya.
£25,000 could pay for the construction of two childhood development centres in Rwanda.

…….. An enormous THANK YOU to everyone involved in the 2008 CARE Challenge Series!