No more dealing with cash or cheques, no more hassling friends and family.
All you do is create your own Internet sponsor page, email it to all your friends and get them to donate quickly and easily online with a credit or debit card. Plus, online donations from UK taxpayers collect a 28% tax bonus!
Just click on the logo on the left to get started...
MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR ONLINE SPONSORSHIP PAGE
As soon as your online sponsorship page is up and running at you are free to start using it to collect sponsorship. Most people do this by sending an email to all their contacts saying why they are taking part in the event, why they have chosen the RAF Benevolent Fund to benefit from it, and a link to their sponsorship page. There are a host of other ways to maximise it's potential and here are a few other ideas, some of which will be more applicable than others:
Think laterally when deciding who to contact and make sure you have emailed all potential supporters: Sponsors come in many forms! Apart from contacting close friends, family and colleagues, why not contact overseas friends, former colleagues, fellow mess and sport clubs members, etc as well.
Add a link from your page to your email signature at work and/or at home: Adding your link to your signature helps ensure that all your contacts are made aware of your efforts, and you may even gain some unexpected sponsors! Don't forget to ask permission about your work signature.
Send email updates on your progress: It is very important to engage your supporters when you can - make sure they know where you are up to on your training and sponsorship. People often intend to sponsor you but don't quite get round to it on the first request, and it does work if you keep reminding them.
Ask to be on your company's website: Ask your webmaster/web-editor at work whether they would be prepared to add your site to the company/organisation's website or intranet. Workplaces enjoy promoting the public spirited efforts of their staff and you could get a lot of extra sponsorship.
Publicise your efforts on a notice in your gym, church, college, children's school, pub, etc: Create a basic poster, a simple Word document will do, telling people about what you are doing and why, and ask any interested parties to sponsor you via your page. You would be surprised at the amount of people who receive sponsorship from complete strangers.
Advertise your web address via any publicity drives you initiate: If you are carrying out any publicity surrounding your participation in the event, eg. to local papers or radio stations, make sure you include your link on any information you produce for them. The Fund is more than happy to advise you on how to write press releases and approach the media.
