Your fundraising networks

Make your fundraising fly by appealing to the strengths and interests of your network. Here’s how.

Start by listing all the people you know. Not just your friends and family but people at work or college or people in your local area or social media networks.

Then think about what you could ask them to do.

Here’s a way to think about it with you at the centre. For each group, we’ve suggested fundraising ideas.

A full text description of the diagram is at the end of the page.

Top tip: Make your own diagram to plan all the different ways you could fundraise with the network around you.

Here’s a blank networks sheet to get you started.

Have a think about the strengths and opportunities in your network

• What are they really good at and how can you use this to raise money?
• What do they like doing?
• Do you want to bring them together in person or are they an online community?
• What contacts do they have that could help you smash your fundraising goals and spread awareness?

If you’re worried about hitting your target, give us a call. We’ll give you a big THANK YOU and help you to make some plans.

Get in touch

• Chat to our fundraising team online using live chat (use the pink ‘chat to us’ button at the bottom right of the screen) Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
• Call us on 0300 330 0803, Monday – Friday, 8am – 6pm
• Email us at fundraisingevents@younglivesvscancer.org.uk

Text description of networks diagram

A circle with ‘you’ in the centre, connected to four other circles. These are labelled as work, family and friends, education and other. Each of these has a list of potential activities which you could use to fundraise with them. For example, suggestions under work are dress-down days, tuck shop, raffle and using posters and staff emails to promote your fundraising. Under family and friends, the suggestions are sweepstake, quiz night, trek / walk, craft night, ticketed party / ball. Under education, there’s bake sale, non-uniform day, winter / summer fetes, parents’ quiz night, parents’ curry night, 24-hour challenge eg danceathon. Finally under other are ask a local golf club for support, sell your arts, crafts and baking, host a class, ask local shops to have a collection tin, ask local sports clubs to do a challenge, ask local businesses for raffle prizes.