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RENT A VENUE
For individuals or groups that want to organise something out of this world, then hire a venue or hall and offer an entertaining programme that raises awareness & raises money. Please read our fundraising guidelines and contact us before committing to a venue.
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Not interested in an indoor vibe, it costs almost nothing to venture outdoors. Walk, run, cycle, hike, climb, swim, or row, the possibilities are endless, all that’s required is pure perseverance to finish the challenge at hand.
AT WORK
Liven up the atmosphere at work, whether your setting up a gala dinner or a team challenge, your efforts will raise funds to assist our AngelBox community services.
PUBLIC SPACES
Apply for a Letter of Authority from Basch Helps CIC and always ask for permission to host a public fundraiser from the management of your desired location, we will then send you collection buckets or labels, a Basch Helps CIC sweatshirt and a tote bag.
Gather some friends and help shoppers fill their groceries at your local supermarket. Brave the hustle and bustle of a busy mall or train station and get shoppers and passengers alike to donate.
Places of worship
At Basch Helps CIC we respect all faiths and their denominations.
If you attend a regular place of worship and congregate with the local community, help us raise funds by setting up an event. Please ask for permission beforehand.
College or University
Colleges are the perfect environment to get fellow students or teachers to raise awareness about child poverty, it’s also a great environment to host a fundraising event in which parents, students and teachers can participate to raise funds.
If you’re a university student, get permission to organise a challenge or social event, discuss the issue of child poverty, get fellow students to volunteer on a AngelBox run and raise funds for our community services.
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding & Online fundraising
The internet has become a powerful tool at your disposal, why not utilise this medium to help us not only promote our core services to the general public but use the platforms available to raise vital funds.
Basch Helps CIC welcomes anyone to share a link to our website on their personal and corporate social media feeds, its quick, painless and takes little of your time.
Use social media to promote your crowdfunding, fundraising or event in a few clicks.
Create a JustGiving fundraiser
Create a challenge or fundraising campaign on the JustGiving website, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to supporting good causes by allowing individuals and teams to freely create a page, a crowdfunding goal, post progress updates and much more. Once your fundraising campaign is over simply transfer the donations to Basch Helps CIC by bank transfer or debit card.
Your Fundraising Page
Our tips for creating your online fundraising page
Are you or your team ready to take up a challenge or host a fundraising event?
Here’s a few tips and guidelines which includes things to consider along your Basch Helps CIC journey to bring the best out of your fundraising page and attract wider audiences, time to get creative.
The cost of each Angelbox
Each complete AngelBox gifted to a newborn baby is equivalent to £250 in retail costs.
Be realistic with your target
Be realistic in your target, work hard and raise much more than your original pledge.
Identify yourself
Add either a profile or team photo or even a biography video, let people identify who you are in the most attractive way.
Photos are important
Post regular photos and videos of your progress, whether your venturing through the great outdoors, running a marathon or hosting an event, it’s always good to upload pictures and footage that engages your audience and showcases each key milestone achieved along your fundraising journey.
A good reason to support us
Personalise your fundraising page with a small biography of your team or yourself, a small introduction is an essential part of fundraising and will go a long way in helping the audience better familiarise themselves with you and your campaign.
It is vitally important to mention why your fundraising for Basch Helps CIC, which of our services your supporting and how you intend to raise money if your planning on setting a challenge or hosting an event.
Important Information should stand out
If you intend to host your fundraiser in a venue, it is always recommended to include the full address, transport information and to display the correct start-time and end-time.
Keep your donors in the loop
Post activity logs or vlogs, regular written or video activity logs keep donors engaged and informed, it may even lead to a top-up of the original donation.
Share your experiences
Share your experience, just as important as the beginning of your fundraising journey, your audience will want to know how you got along and the experiences gained or about any accomplishments when your fundraising event or challenge has finished. It can give a donor the courage and conviction to try something new themselves.
Fundraising Ideas
Sober Up
Sober up for Basch Helps CIC, give up a week or a month of drinking, smoking or both. Turn those savings into a fabulous donation.
Shave your hair
Do something hair raising for a good cause, be brave and shave off that beautifully conditioned hair, share this feat with your friends and family to raise money on our behalf.
FILM NIGHT
Turn your house or garden into a cinema for the night, invite friends and family over, have the popcorn ready and put your beverages on ice. Enjoy the movie night and raise money to support our AngelBox services.
GAME NIGHT
Game night anyone, host a game night, it could be charades, monopoly, a FIFA or COD competition, a friendly poker game or play trivial pursuit. A timeless fun way to get everyone involved and fundraise on our behalf.
MAKEUP DAY
Beautify your peeps, why not raise funds by charging friends and family for a range of beauty treatments such as manicures, pedicures, facials, eyebrow threading and don’t forget to invite the men, the more the merrier and the better for collecting vital funds.
HOST A CLASS
Host your own yoga or Zumba session, whether it’s in the local park, a virtual session or at your house, as long as everyone is over 18, have fun, workout and put the proceeds towards helping us support vulnerable people in London.
Marketing Support
Illustrators & Graphic designers at the ready, if your organising an event or challenge and want to expand from web awareness to a more ground-level approach, Basch Helps CIC has dedicated volunteers that are art savvy and willing to put time and effort into the promotion of your fundraiser.
All you have to do is contact marketing@baschhelps.org, and your nominated designer will go through your themes and picture requirements.
Notice:
Basch Helps CIC aims to deliver the final artwork, print-ready in a PDF format within 7 working days, it’s your responsibility to proof read the final artwork before printing. How or where you print the artwork is your choice and at your expense.
You cannot use our logo without permission and it cannot be freely downloaded from our website.
Artwork & Logo
We can help you make banners, posters and other artwork needed for your campaign.
Social Media Help
We will share all AngelBox fundraising campaigns on our social media channels
Merchandise
We can offer you discounted merchandise and it will have the name of your campaign on the sweatshirt or T-Shirt
FUNDRAISING GUIDELINES
Your life, health and safety are more important to us than the money your collecting. We highly recommend using digital payment services to process your fundraising or ticketing collections. Our website has many systems in place to collect funds safely. However, if your event or fundraiser will collect cash donations from the public, please do so in an area with adequate CCTV surveillance, lighting and lots of public footfall.
If your fundraiser is an event where your collecting cash for tickets or raffles, please use a secure cash box which has a sufficient locking mechanism, don’t leave the cashbox exposed on the table or worktop and always have someone accompanying you when counting or transporting the final collection to the bank.
Should you find yourself being confronted by a thief, don’t play hero even if you’re a pro MMA fighter, just hand over the money, stay aware of your surroundings, walk away if you can, find a place of safety. Take a deep breath and dial 999, report what happened to the police. Once you safely get home, call us and our team will support you throughout.
Planning on entertaining guests with an elaborate show, inviting performers or a DJ to the centre stage for a lit night of live or recorded music, prefer a more theatrical approach or giving fans an action-packed sporting event such as a tennis or boxing match, you may need a license.
Check now if your event needs a public entertainment license on the governments gov.uk website, if it turns out you need one, apply for a Temporary Events Notice via your local authority.
The Food Standards Agency has full guidance and requirements which govern the way food is prepared and served to the general public. As a basic rule of thumb follow the 4C’s of food hygiene to prevent the most common food safety problems which are as follows:
- Cleaning
- Cooking
- Chilling
- Cross-contamination
Ensure that the venue you choose has a practical kitchen which can safely store food before serving or if your using a caterer, check with your local authority their food hygiene rating before committing to an order.
If you want to show off your talent in the kitchen, your free to do so. As long as you can safely store and transport the food to your fundraiser.
If you intend to serve alcohol at your fundraiser, you may need a license. Its always best practice to host your event on a licensed premises that has sufficient security measures in place and the experience in trading and serving alcohol to the general public.
Remember, your event your responsibility. Whichever venue you choose to host your fundraiser always ensure that you have run adequate checks and mitigated any risks, take a common sense approach and check for fire, water, electrical, security and any other safety risks, notify the owner of the venue. How to complete a thorough risk assessment can be found on the HSE website.
Make sure that any alterations or safety recommendations are completed before your fundraising venue opens to the general public, if the venue owner refuses to address the health and safety issues, do not commit to the event to avoid injury to yourself or staff and guests.
Before agreeing to a venue, ask the landlord or venue owner if they have insurance, some venues may charge an additional fee for insurance.
You may consider contacting a local insurance broker, for a specialist one-day policy which covers your venue, staff, volunteers and the public. Insurance is important, it protects you against any claims by third parties for injury or property damage as a result of negligence.
Sadly, Basch Helps CIC cannot extend their insurance cover beyond our own workplace, staff, volunteers and events, therefore please do not contact us for coverage.
Basch Helps CIC cannot accept liability for any loss, damage or injury suffered by yourself or anyone else taking part in a fundraiser organised in support of Basch Helps CIC.
Depending on the location and size of your fundraiser, it may be wise to provision having a certified first aid administrator on hand or setting up a first-aid tent equipped with handling mild symptoms and injuries.
If you need assistance in planning your first aid facility check the information available on the St John’s Ambulance website, they maybe able to attend your event and provide first-aid support.
Any incident that occurs on the day should be managed properly, we recommend providing each first-aid responder to log incidents in a report which should be handed you as soon as reasonably possible.
Information on the report should include the person’s name, age, the nature of the incident, steps taken and should include the first aid responders name.
If your going to invite participants under the age of 18, it is important to make special considerations for their safety and wellbeing. Ensure you have undertaken the appropriate checks on all fellow organisers that are going to work with children, unless in a school environment, if possible we recommend promoting the need for parents or guardians to be present throughout the duration of your event.
Fundraising on our behalf is super and we can’t thank you enough, if your planning to promote a fundraiser don’t forget to give us a shout out. Remember to request an official logo and for the purpose of transparency always mention in the headings and texts of tickets, flyers, posters and banners ‘IN AID OF’ or ‘FUNDRAISING FOR’.
Need help creating marketing materials, you’re in luck because some of our volunteers are fantastic illustrators and graphic designers. Need a logo to create your own promotional materials, no problem. Contact us on marketing@baschhelps.org.
Please note our logo’s will be sent in JPEG or GIF format, fundraisers name or organisation, our slogan and a unique identifier. Do not attempt to crop these out, these verifiers are important to combat fraud.
MERCHANDISE
For fundraisers with a collection target of £2000.00 or less, apply for a 40% discount of the total order on all merchandise items, any size.
Send us an email at marketing@baschhelps.org, tell us who you are, send us a link to your event page and we’ll send a coupon to use in our online shop.
Fundraisers with a collection target of over £200.00, we’ll send 2 complimentary t-shirts or sweatshirts, a tote bag to help you carry important event stuff and a 40% discount of your total order for any additional merchandise you need to successfully run your event.
As an event organiser eventually you’ll have to start collecting personal information either electronically or in writing. It is important that these documents are kept secret and not exposed out in the open, never share the personal information collected nor attempt to sell it. Once your event has finished and all donations collected, we ask that you safely destroy the personal information at hand by either shredding the paper record or by deleting your excel or word document by placing it in the trash and permanently deleting your computers waste bin.
Any online records held including those that are attached to your personal email should also be permanently deleted.
Any game of chance such as raffles, lotteries and bingos to name a few are fun and attractive ways to raise awareness and vital funds, however you will need to consider that such fundraising activities are governed by strict gambling legislation and may require obtaining a gambling license from your local authority.
For smaller events, we recommend that all prizes to be won must be purchased before the event starts. All raffles must be purchased onsite and can only be sold to participants on the same day of the event. Winners must be announced before the end of the evening and if possible handed their prizes. This will not require a license.
For larger events, where tickets/raffles are sold in advance of the event, even to people not attending the event or by hosting a lottery style game of chance, this will require applying for a license through your local lottery authority, please note you cannot be a commercial organisation when applying.
Please consider the following guidelines when planning your fundraiser:
- All tickets sold must have the Basch Helps CIC logo, a transparent message that includes the phrases such as “In aid of” “Fundraising for” or matching alternatives.
- We recommend selling tickets at a standard price, unless you have an event which has live entertainment.
- Tickets that automatically enter guests into a prize-draw, lottery or any game of chance must not be sold to person under the age of 16.
- Respect your local community and neighbours, never pressure sale local people into buying a ticket.
- The prizes purchased to giveaway during your fundraiser shouldn’t exceed £400.00 unless they are donated by a member of the public in which case the prize can be of an unlimited value and lastly if prizes include alcoholic beverages, remember to ensure your venue has the appropriate alcohol licensing.
Click, Like, Subscribe
Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok & Facebook: Once you’ve created a event or fundraising page on our suggested platforms, use social media platforms to raise awareness about your fundraising initiative and link your page at the end of the thread. Don’t forget to tag us, our marketing team will be more than happy to spread the word about your fundraising efforts to our existing audience.
If you would like extra coverage, send an email to marketing@baschhelps.org so we can share or tag your page.