Sponsorship / Just Giving

The additional sponsorship that people raise while taking part in the Biddenham River Run makes a significant contribution to the money raised by the event. We are really appreciative of the efforts that people go to to raise sponsorship and we would like to encourage you to do so if you can. Every bit of sponsorship really does help!

Sponsor Forms

A sponsor form may be downloaded from the Sue Ryder Care website. You will find it, along with other fund raising tips by clicking on the link below (look for the Sponsor Form link towards the bottom of the page). You can also download a fundraising pack from here.

http://www.suerydercare.org/pages/running.html

Please put 'in aid of St John’s Hospice' at the top of the form before sending it in to the address shown. This means that the central office will know where to allocate the funds.

Just Giving

JustGiving make it easy to donate and raise funds for Sue Ryder Care. Anyone can create a fundraising page on JustGiving to collect donations in support.

Fundraising pages are just like paper sponsorship forms used to be, except they’re online, so you simply create a fundraising page, email it out, and your supporters donate online. They can pay by credit or debit card and it is all 100% secure. JustGiving saves fundraisers and their charities time and costs by automating donation payments and reclaiming 28% Gift Aid on all donations from UK taxpayers. You raise more, your charity gets more.

How to create your own fundraising page

(Please note that these instructions were correct as of summer 2009.)

Go to the following website:

www.justgiving.com/suerydercare

Click on ‘Make Your Page' under the 'Raise Money' heading.

Choose the option to create a page for an organised event.

If you are not already logged in then do so here or create an account by filling in the details asked for.

On the screen 'Choose one of your charity's favourite events' screen, scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the link 'create your own...'

Select the activity type 'Running / marathons'.

For the name of the activity put in 'Biddenham River Run'

Note - this is a suggested name for the activity and it is not crucial that it exactly matches. Please see the note below for the important information to ensure that the money raised is correctly allocated to St John's Hospice.

Set the date as 26/09/2010

Click on 'Save and continue'.

Fill in the final details asked for before clicking on 'Make your page'

Note - for this event the charity is not contributing to the cost of your fundraising unless you have made specific arrangements.

Then follow all the steps to create your own page.

IMPORTANT

Once you get to the box entitled ‘my personal message’ where you can type in why you are taking part etc. Please ensure you say you are raising money for St John’s Hospice. This means that the central office will know where to allocate the funds.