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Special Olympics is a grass roots community sports programme open to children and adults with intellectual disabilities of all ability levels. Did you know? Please check our annual competition 10,000 children and adults currently take part calendar and come to our sports events in regular sports training and competition Intellectual disability is the most common to cheer on and support our Athletes: programmes through our volunteer-led disability in the UK network of 140 programmes across Great www.specialolympicsgb.org.uk/event-calendar Britain. Our life-changing activities help our The major barrier to participation in sport for people with intellectual disabilities Children with intellectual disabilities are athletes to make friends (often for the first is lack of local, accessible or inclusive socially excluded and 8 out of 10 are bullied time), be fit and healthy and develop the skills sports clubs. 20% of disabled adults have and confidence they need to overcome the not participated in any sport in the past A person with an intellectual disability has barriers and exclusion they face in daily life. 12 months though were keen to do so an IQ of 75 or below and a common example is Down’s Syndrome Each of our 10,000 athletes with intellectual Through our work on the sports field, our wider disabilities are on their own personal aim is to achieve inclusion for disabled people Special Olympics is part of the Olympic Road to Victory, regularly training and family and provides a competition pathway competing in our sporting programmes. There are currently 1.5 million adults from local, regional and national through and children in the UK with intellectual to European and International levels for all disabilities and more than 200 babies with intellectually disabled athletes. The Olympic these disabilities are born every week and Paralympic Movements provide the elite competition pathways for talented We have a series of local, regional, mainstream and disabled athletes national and international competitions, the pinnacle of which is our World Summer Games, held every 4 years Let’s get started!

An estimated 1 in 3 people with an Your personal Road to Victory intellectual disability is obese compared starts right here! to 1 in 5 of the general population Please support Special Olympics GB by signing up to one of our Road to Victory events within We offer a wide range of Olympic-type this pack, or by undertaking one of the other sports from athletics, cycling and judo to fundraising ideas in the pages to follow. We table tennis, football and alpine skiing also welcome our fundraisers coming up with their own ideas. Whatever challenge you choose, thank you for doing it to support Special Olympics GB. This document has lots of ideas to get your events and fundraising started. Road Victory

WE LOVE SPORTto AND WE KNOW YOU First decide which challenge level suits you We’re recommending that our larger DO TOO – SO WHY NOT JOIN OUR best then select an event from a range of corporate supporters hold a Road to ATHLETES ON THE ROAD TO VICTORY! sports, distances, locations and times of Victory launch event in key sites/offices, the year. Pick one, pick three, challenge hire in some fitness equipment such as a Each of our 10,000 athletes is on their own everyone at work to enter too, but know cross trainer/rower and challenge all staff personal Road to Victory. Support them on that Special Olympics GB says “go for it” and to keep the machines in use for the whole their journey by undertaking your own Road our fundraising and events team is here to working day! Our team can be on hand to to Victory challenge. It’s a fundraising event support you on your Road to Victory. tell everyone about the challenge and help with a difference. It’s all about pushing your them to sign up to their preferred event. boundaries and achieving a new victory. Be that your own personal victory, victory for INVOLVE FRIENDS AND We’ve designed a special pack on your team at work and of course, victory for COLLEAGUES AT WORK our athletes. how to organise a launch event. Click to download.

Ask colleagues, friends and family to take the challenge with you and set up a leader board to see who can raise the most, cover MODERATE TO EXTREME! the furthest distance, or take part in the most events.

We know that the choice of fundraising Companies with multi-sites or regions events can sometimes be bewildering can also challenge teams to compete to which is why we’ve done the leg work be the most victorious. The winning office and hand-picked over 50 great sporting or region could have signed up to the challenges that offer something for most events, raised the largest amount or everyone from the super sporty to the travelled the furthest distance. Great stuff complete beginner, as well as for both for internal communications and social individuals and teams. media collateral too! Welcome to your Road Victory to TRIATHLON SWIM RUN CYCLE OBSTACLE

To start on your Road to Victory go to www.SpecialOlympicsGB.org.uk/Victory for our full range of recommended events. All the information you need about the events plus a clever button to help you set up a quick and simple online fundraising page can be found on the website. Once you’ve set up your fundraising page for the big day, you’ll need to register directly with the event to secure your place. You can do this by following the link to your chosen event below or on our site.

1 - Cambridge Half 15 - Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon 30 - 44 - Cardiff 10K www.onestepbeyond.org.uk/ www.uk.competitor.com www.greatrun.org/Events/event.aspx?id=11 www.cardiff10k.com 2 - The VO2 Sportive 16 - Wiggle Dragon Ride 31 - Spartan Races Beast UK 45 - Bristol www.thevo2sportive.co.uk http://humanrace.co.uk/events/cycling/dragon-ride www.spartanraceuk.uk/race-finder www.runbristol.com/Events/Bristol-half-marathon 32 - Diamond Tri 46 - The Exmoor Beast 3 - Breakfast Run 17 - Great North Swim http://www.greatswim.org/Events/great-north-swim www.humanrace.co.uk/events/triathlon/diamond-tri www.exmoorbeast.org www.humanrace.co.uk/events/running/breakfast-run 18 - Petzl South Downs Way 100 33 - Wiggle Yorkshire Tour Sportive 47 - Tough Mudder London South 4 - Great Run www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk/events www.toughmudder.co.uk/events/2015-london-south www.centurionrunning.com/south-downs-way-100-2016 www.greatrun.org/Events/Event wiggle-the-yorkshire-tour-sportive/ 19 - Windsor Triathlon 48 - www.cardiffhalfmarathon.co.uk/ 5 - Etape Loch Ness www.humanrace.co.uk/events/triathlon/windsor-triathlon 34 - Tough Mudder South West www.toughmudder.co.uk/events/2016-south-west www.etapelochness.com 20 - South Downs Trail Marathon 49 - www.run-bmf.com/?marathon_eventinfo 6 - Grand East Anglia Run www.209events.com/uk-running-events/south-downs-trail- 35 - Spartan Races Sprint UK www.spartanraceuk.uk/race-finder/ www.grandeastangliarun.co.uk marathon-slindon-to-qe-park-petersfield#simple1 50 - Warwickshire Triathlon 7 - North Downs Way 50 21 - The Wall Ultramarathon 36 - Wiggle Northern Angel www.uktriathlon.co.uk/events/warwickshire-triathlon/ www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk/events/ www.centurionrunning.com/north-downs-way-50-2016 www.ratracethewall.com 51 - Bank of Great Scottish Run wiggle-northern-angel-sportive/ 8 - Dulux London Revolution 22 - Great East Swim www.greatscottishrun.com www.greatswim.org/Events/Great-East-Swim 37 - Spartan Races Super UK 52 - Wiggle South Downs 100 www.london-revolution.com www.spartanraceuk.uk/race-finder/ 23 - Tough Mudder Scotland www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk/events 9 - Tough Mudder Midlands Half wiggle-south-downs-100-sportive/ www.toughmudder.co.uk/events/2016-scotland 38 - Pedal for Scotland https://toughmudder.co.uk/ www.pedalforscotland.org events/2016-midlands-half-midlands 24 - Dulux Color Run (Manchester) 53 - Bupa www.greatrun.org/Events/event.aspx?id=14 www.thecolorrun.co.uk 39 - North West Triathlon 10 - Baker Hughes 10K www.uktriathlon.co.uk/events/north-west-triathlon/ www.sportaberdeen.co.uk/events/10kaberdeen 25 - Henley Mile 54 - Wiggle Circuit Breaker www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk/events/ www.henleyswim.com 40 - Dulux Color Run (London) 11 - Chiltern 100 Sportive www.thecolorrun.co.uk wiggle-circuit-breaker-sportive/ http://humanrace.co.uk/events/cycling/ 26 - British 10K London chiltern-100-sportive www.thebritish10klondon.co.uk/ 41 - Peak District Punisher 55 - Leicester Marathon www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk/events/ www.leicestermarathon.org.uk 12 - Tough Mudder Midlands 27 - Race to the Stones wiggle-peak-district-punisher-sportive/ www.toughmudder.co.uk/events/2016-midlands www.racetothestones.com 56- Wolf Run 42 - South Manchester Triathlon www.thewolfrun.com/entry/ 13 - 28 - Great London Swim www.xtramileevents.com/events/ www.greatrun.org/Events/event.aspx?id=4 www.greatswim.org/Events/Great-London-Swim south-manchester-triathlon-2015/#enter-event 29 - Spartan Races Sprint UK For further information contact 14 - 43 - Dulux Color Run (Brighton II) fundraising: [email protected] www.edinburgh-marathon.com www.spartanraceuk.uk/race-finder www.thecolorrun.co.uk Road to Victory Map

1 - Cambridge Half Marathon, February - Cambridge 2 - The VO2 Sportive, March - Tonbridge 3 - Breakfast Run, April - Kingston-Upon-Thames 4 - , April - Edinburgh 5 - Etape Loch Ness, April - Inverness 6 - Grand East Anglia Run, May - Norfolk TRIATHLON 7 - North Downs Way 50, May - Farnham 8 - Dulux London Revolution, May - London 9 - Tough Mudder Midlands Half, May - Grantham 10 - Baker Hughes 10K, May - Aberdeen 11 - Chiltern 100 Sportive, May - Chesham SWIM 12 - Tough Mudder Midlands, May - Grantham 13 - Great Manchester Run, May - Manchester 5 14 - Edinburgh Marathon, May - Edinburgh 15 - Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon, May - Liverpool 10 16 - Wiggle Dragon Ride, June - Port Talbot 17 - Great North Swim, June - Windermere RUN 18 - Petzl South Downs Way 100, June - Winchester 19 - Windsor Triathlon, June - Windsor 20 - South Downs Trail Marathon, June - Petersfield 29 21 - The Wall Ultramarathon, June - Carlise 23 4 22 - Great East Swim, June - Alton Water 51 38 31 23 - Tough Mudder Scotland, June - Edinburgh CYCLE 24 - Dulux Color Run, July - Manchester 25 - Henley Mile, July - Henley-on-Thames

26 - British 10K London, July - London 21 36 27 - Race to the Stones, July - Chinnor 28 - Great London Swim, July - Newham OBSTACLE 29 - Spartan Races Sprint UK, July - Edinburgh

30 - Great Yorkshire Run, July - Sheffield 17 31 - Spartan Races Beast UK, July - Edinburgh 32 - Diamond Tri, August - Dorney Lake 33 41 30 33 - Wiggle Yorkshire Tour Sportive, August - Thirsk 34 - Tough Mudder South West, August - Cirencester 42 24 13 35 - Spartan Races Sprint UK, September - Peterborough 15 39 36 - Wiggle Northern Angel, September - Kirkey 37 - Spartan Races Super UK, September - Peterborough 38 - Pedal for Scotland, September - 55 52 6 37 39 - North West Triathlon, September - Nantwich 53 12 40 - Dulux Color Run, September - London 54 41 - Peak District Punisher, September - Bakewell 35 1 40 26 22 27 42 - South Manchester Triathlon, September - Wilmslow 32 34 43 - Dulux Color Run, September - Brighton 3 8 14 28 27 19 25 44 - Cardiff 10K,September - Cardiff 16 45 50 44 48 45 - Bristol Half Marathon, September - Bristol 11 7 46 - The Exmoor Beast, September - Tiverton 2

47 - Tough Mudder London South, September - Holmbush Estate 18 47 48 - Cardiff Half Marathon,October - Cardiff 20 56 43 49 49 - Bournemouth Marathon, October - Bournemouth 46 50 - Warwickshire Triathlon, October - Southam 51 - Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run, October - Glasgow 52 - Wiggle South Downs 100, October - Chichester 53 - Bupa Great Birmingham Run, October - Birmingham 54 - Wiggle Circuit Breaker, October - Turweston Aerodrome, Brackley 55 - Leicester Marathon, October - Leicester 56 - Wolf Run, November - Standord Hall ON YOUR MARKS,

GET SET, FUNDRAISE! Keep up to date with the latest Special Olympics GB news @SpecialOlympicsGB ‘Like’ our page and tell us how your We recommend setting yourself a minimum fundraising target of £250 per event you take part in. It’s an achievable training and fundraising are going. amount to aim for, but remember the tougher the challenge the more surprised and impressed your friends, family and colleagues will be and the more money you could raise!

MAKING THE MOST OF ONLINE FUNDRAISING If you haven’t already set up an online fundraising page then now is the time to get started! It’s the quickest, easiest and most Follow us @SOGreatBritain efficient way to collect sponsorship and gives you more time to and we’ll retweet your focus on training for the big day. #roadtovictory fundraising To create your page, go to www.SpecialOlympicsGB.org.uk/Victory and training updates!

1. Register your name, address and create a password. 2. Set your fundraising target, add a photo and a personal message. 3. Email family, friends and colleagues with your page link - the Enclosed in this pack are a first few sponsors tend to set the trend so ask someone poster and sponsorship generous to start with. People are more generous after pay-day so email the link at the end of the month! form that can be easily printed to help promote 4. Add your fundraising page URL to your email signature with a sentence about what you are doing and if you are on Facebook and your fundraising. twitter, you can post and/or tweet details of your challenge directly from you personalised fundraising page. To order collection tins and/ or t-shirts please email: [email protected] Some Sport tournament or a sports day fundraising What better way to fundraise for us ideas than with sports day activities?! Get your friends, family or neighbours involved in sports day activities such as rounders or to get you quick cricket and ask them to pay £5 to enter. You could double this opportunity inspired! and have a BBQ or cake sale to raise Fancy dress or extra money too. Or you could ask your dress down week! local gym to support the event! Help us to use sport to transform lives of children and adults with intellectual disabilities This could be a Friday at work, or every morning for a week on your way to work or on the school Be a fan. Make a change. run, where you go dressed as a well-known sports personality, or simply in your gym kit! Of course you need to get sponsored for the humiliation!

Quiz Night!

Test your friends, families, colleagues (or the mums and dads from school) on their knowledge of sports, Olympic medallists and athletes and anything else you would like to throw into the mix! Charge per team entry and add a fundraising raffle to boost funds raised too! Office Olympics

At work, hire in games such as table tennis, table football, darts and air hockey if you are holding this inside, or hire “It’s a Knock Out” type equipment or Human Table football for outdoor events and throw in a BBQ. Invite clients and family and friends too and charge per entry and per game! Have an officialOffice Olympics Champion and trophy.

Board Game Tournament Organise a sport Sweepstakes themed Party!

Hold a fun board game Have a sweepstake with friends tournament at home and Hold a sport themed party! Borrow or work colleagues, either invite your friends and family. in games such as swingball, rounders for upcoming sporting or and tennis, have face painting for entertainment events. For example the children and throw in a BBQ you could get people to pay £2 for Spring Clean out and a raffle. Invite your friends and guessing who will win the Grand families and charge per entry, per National, Olympics 100m final or drink (i.e. Pimms) and per game! Wimbledon and then the winners Sell your unwanted items and This is a great way to bond with your will get a small prize with the rest make space for new things and sell neighbours throughout the year. going towards your fundraising. on missionfish (ebay for charity) Dog or Babysitting! Create your own fashion Raise some money by offering to show look after children or pets, or do odd jobs such as mowing lawns or cleaning cars for your neighbours Invite your friends to a in return for a donation! clothes swap at home. Host a Ask them to pay to enter and get a new wardrobe! Eurovision song contest Master your evening baking skills!

Invite all your Hold a cake sale, with the friends to dress chance to try and taste up and support a your amazing delicacies different country and hold a tea party. You each, theme the could be starting the next evening and get Special Olympics Bake off! your friends to pay £5 each to enter. The ultimate sacrifice! A Wii sport or dance competition

Give up a treat, your beloved mobile or favourite food and get Hold a Wii sport or dance competition at home with friends sponsored for your sacrifice. and family and ask them to pay an entry fee. Please contact: [email protected] Host an auction event if you need further information

Auction unwanted items on Ebay and donate the proceeds to Special Olympics GB, or ask local companies or your employer to donate items for you to sell in this way. Alternatively auction your How do I make cooking, cleaning, dog walking or house sitting services off to friends, colleagues and neighbours in return for a donation! my event safe?

Get sponsored by and collect donations from people you know and trust. Ensure that children are supervised at all times and don’t let them collect money from strangers.

Make sure your venue is safe and don’t forget crowd control.

Break the Donate while Be careful about security if you are carrying money around. It’s Balloon you shop online always safest to pay in any money you’ve raised on the day.

You will need balloons, a When you shop online, helium tank, string and slips thousands of leading retailers of paper with prizes printed will donate a percentage of on them. All balloons should your purchase price back to have a slip of paper, even charities including us, at no if it is just a thank you for cost to you and at no cost to participating, so they all look us. If you download Give as the same. Sell the balloons, you Live to your computer ask everyone to pop their you can visit your favourite balloons and see if they have stores directly and still won. It will be funny to see raise money for us, without the different method of spending a penny more or popping the balloons. Ask needing to do anything special! the winners to come up and claim their prize. Planning any fundraising event is very important. Finding yourself in the middle of something too ambitious or alternatively not ambitious enough could affect the success of your event. Here are some main areas to be considered:

Your Event Venue ☐ Is it manageable? Set up clear ☐ How much will it cost? objectives and action list will help you plan your event ☐ Can you get it for free? ☐ Who is your audience? It is ☐ Is it accessible? It is important important to identify your that the venue chosen is audience, as your ultimate goal appropriate for the type and Scheduling People and Equipment is to bring people together size of the event chosen but ☐ When should you hold the ☐ Will you need help? Evaluate and incite them to action. also that people can get to the event? The time of day and how much help you will need in venue without any problem the day of the week should advance and during the event. ☐ How many people will you (near a station, tube, ensure be tailored to your audience invite? You need to know the there is parking available) to maximise attendance. Also ☐ Do you want celebrities? maximum capacity for your depending on the time and venue to allow determining ☐ Does it have adequate parking? duration of the event, guests ☐ Do you need to borrow the maximum of guests that Ensure the parking be open might expect to be fed. or hire equipment? can be invited to your event. during your event, will there be enough space for all your guests. ☐ Will it be competing with ☐ Who will organise volunteers? ☐ Will people want to support it? another event? Always check Determine what type of event ☐ Is it insured? Ensure you obtain any sporting competition that ☐ Where will you get help? you think will be most interesting a copy of a risk management your event does not clash and getting your guest to from the venue and that with annual sport events. support our cause will be crucial. you have insurance. Money Matters Insurance Keeping it Legal Publicity ☐ Is your budget realistic? ☐ Will you need insurance to cover ☐ Do you have to inform the ☐ How will you promote the event? accidents or bad weather? police or local authority? ☐ What is the cost of the event? ☐ Will you need to produce ☐ If it is something risky seek ☐ Do you need a licence or permit? posters, flyers, tickets etc? ☐ Do you need sponsors professional advice to cover costs? ☐ Do you need permission from ☐ Have you got a photographer? Special Olympics Great Britain? ☐ How are you going ☐ Will your local paper/ to raise money? ☐ Do you have permission to radio station help? use the charity’s registered ☐ How much do you want to raise? charity number?

How do I check if If you are holding a raffle, Don’t collect money in the Always have our registered an event is legal check the rules with your Local street or any other public place charity number (No. 800329) Authority. without a licence from your local on all materials. Please do not do house authority or police. Collections collections. Without a proper If you are doing something on are no problem if they are on licence it is illegal and many private property, ask permission private property ( for instance at people find them intrusive. from the owner. a supermarket). Sponsorship form

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