Amnesty Student Raise-Off
The Student Raise-Off is Amnesty’s annual fundraising contest that runs until 28th May 2010. There are 4 categories in this year’s competition: best fundraisers, best fundraising event, most regular fundraisers and best collaboration for those groups working together to raise funds. So whatever the size and set up of your group you are in for a chance of winning some great prizes and being crowned Raise-Off champions!
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I hear Amnesty supporter Dawn organised an event at a High School with an Elvis impersonator! She charged £12 for tickets and food for the buffet was donated by 'Greggs'. She raised nearly £1000 and won one of Amnesty's 'Soap and Glory' gift sets!
Another winner was a supporter in London who raised over £2000 with an Amnestea event!
Lily in London had an event with a 'Seven Deadly Sins' theme. "Everyone was assigned a sin which they had to dress up as (we had pajamas for sloth, giant human cupcakes for gluttony and the hulk for wrath, to name a few!) and each room of the house was decorated as one sin", she told us.
So think outside the box for your AmnesTEAs - and it could be an event to remember for years to come!
Meanwhile check out our Amnestea pages and Flickr slideshow - http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryI...
Here are some tips from a recent workshop...
*Get things donated or at a discount, like the venue or refreshments.
*Try and link the campaign to the event - dress code could be relevant ie red. yellow and black clothes for a 'Shell Hell' event
*Refreshments as an add-on to any event - people always want a snack, whether your event is a club night, comedy event or just letter-writing.
*Social events - everyone can get something out of these.
*using the contacts and skills of the group - play to your strengths. If someone is a dab hand with a paintbrush, have them make a banner. If they can crunch the numbers, put them in charge of the accounts!
*Keep it convenient - have a location handy for everyone, and time the event so that people can come straight from work, school, ot lectures.
Club nights are always a brilliant way to make a lot of dollar! Some of the best we've heard recently are:
*Portsmouth Uni are always good at throwing amazing parties, with their 'JAmnesty' nights - including one recent night linked in with the 'Shell Hell' campaign in which people were invited to attend smeared in gunge.
*Manchester Uni are also a dab hand at putting on an event - they have a regular night called 'Unshackled' at the Ram and Shackle: Music, dancing, face-painting, henna and oh-so-much-more! Their most recent event made £820.00! Well done!
*Aberystwyth Uni ran 'Boogie Rights': a club night in aid of AIUK with music provided by the university's dance and rock music societies.
So, what are the ingredients for a good club night?
All you lovely students have really got into the swing of things - you've collectively raised nearly £6,000 already. Six grand! Topping the leaderboard is the University of Liverpool, who've raised £1,400 with a gig and donations. Still, it's early days yet - plenty of time to topple the mighty Liverpool...
...and, love it or loathe it, Valentine's Day will soon be upon us. Whether students are interested in Amnesty or not, they are certainly interested in each other, so why not capitalise on all those warm and fuzzy feeling by organising a Valentine's Dance - or how about a Speed Dating event?
Make it a sponsored event or charge for tickets; sell the young lovers cupcakes or flowers... Could this be the start of something beautiful?
anyone got any other ideas for Valentine's fundraising? Love is a human right!
At Reading, we had a protect the human party in our student union nightclub. We decorated our club in Amnesty stuff and had a stall out the back to give out Amnesty materials. We managed to raise money for Amnesty as well as get people to join our student group. It was great and I would recommend it to anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.
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