Fundraising for Suicide Prevention
By helping to raise awareness and funding you can support suicide prevention and help the suicidal.
Should you decide you would like to fundraise, you might like to donate any monies raised to a suicide prevention charity in your area.
Take part in a challenge, have fun or set yourself a goal but most of all help raise awareness and funding to help prevent suicideā¦
Some suggestions and plenty more can be found on the Internet!
- Have a workplace collection
- Hold a car boot or garage sale
- Clear out all your unwanted items and sell them on eBay
- Arrange a sponsored walkathon
- Set yourself the challenge to run a marathon but get people to sponsor you
- In your place of work, organise a dress-down day or non-uniform day but charge for the privilege
- Put a swear box in the workplace and every time someone swears make them put a previously agreed amount in the swear box
- Rise to the challenge - do something that you know will be a challenge and get people to sponsor you
- Spend a quiet night in and donate the amount you saved by staying in (which would be the amount you normally spend on a night out)
- Arrange a coffee morning
- Get people to sponsor you for trying to break a bad habit. They can sponsor by the hour, day or whatever
- Undertake a sponsored silence
- Arrange a sports event, for example a football match, and shake that collection tin
- Arrange a quiz night and donate the proceeds from it
- Hold a card school and donate all the proceeds
- Arrange for a calendar shoot with friends, family or colleagues and donate the proceeds from the calendars sold
- Donate part of your salary - whatever amount you can afford
- If you belong to any groups or clubs, have a collection and donate the proceeds
- Arrange a board games night and donate any money raised
- Collect all your loose change until you fill a jar and then donate the money
- If you have a talent for making things, use it - sell the goods and donate the money
- If you can provide a service, charge for it and donate the money
There are things YOU can do to help prevent suicide