Festive fundraising ideas and inspiration Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre at the University of Nottingham nott.ac.uk/nbcrc Thank you!

For downloading our Christmas pack! We hope it will provide you Why your support is vital with some entertainment and Breast cancer is the most a little inspiration to fundraise common form of cancer over the festive period. 150 a day are diagnosed Whether crafting, baking or quizzing – it’s all in aid of cases on average the vital research at the Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre (NBCRC), helping our talented staff women develop detect cancer early, stop the spread and treat it right. breast cancer 1 in 7 during their lifetime They couldn’t do this without the support of people like you, so read on and see how you can fundraise Incidence rates for breast for the centre this Christmas. cancer are expected to rise by 2% over the next 15 years

Thanks to research like ours,

Jo Brailsford-Finnis there is a good Community Fundraising chance of recovery Manager if the cancer is detected early and nearly two-thirds of those who are diagnosed now recover

Keep reading for some ideas and 2 fundraising inspiration this Christmas! Hold a virtual Christmas quiz

What better way to bring family or friends together over the holidays, while raising money to help NBCRC?

You can set an entry fee for people to take part or suggest donating the cost of a couple of drinks people would buy if they were at the pub normally. You can easily send the money raised through a JustGiving page or through our own donation form.

How to do it: • Write some questions based on your audience, if it’s a family quiz think of questions to suit all ages for example

• You could categorise questions by theme, so music, general knowledge, history, literature and so on

• For a bit of a change up try a picture round or music round, everyone loves to guess the intro!

• If you’re not sure about how to host, there’s plenty of apps to enable you to connect online: Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Zoom are probably the most familiar – get in touch with us if you need a hand!

We’ve even written a straight-out-of-the box set of Christmas questions and answers ready to go for you too – see pages 4-5.

Set up your donation page through JustGiving at nott.ac.uk/nbcrcjustgiving or return donations 3 through our online form: nott.ac.uk/nbcrcdonation Christmas quiz questions

Round one 12 days of Christmas… Round two Christmas lyrics 1. Where does Alan Partridge hail from? (name that tune!) 2. Name the four Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles 1. “When the snow lay round about, deep and 3. What is the French term for a hen? crisp and even.” 4. Which songbird is famous for imitating the 2. “Got on a lucky one, came in eighteen to one.” call of others? 3. “Bah, humbug!” no, that’s too strong, ‘cos it is 5. Which 80s band is famous for the song Gold? my favourite holiday.” 6. Name the film in which ‘Goose’ is a major 4. “O Star of Wonder, Star of Night, Star with character Royal Beauty bright.” 7. Who composed the ballet Swan Lake? 5. “Be near me, Lord Jesus; I ask thee to stay. Close by me forever, and love me I pray.” 8. Name the actress who played Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 6. “(Merry Christmas!) I wrapped it up and sent it. With a note saying, “I love you”, “I meant it.” 9. What colour are the berries on the woodland plant lords-and-ladies? 7. “Snow had fallen, snow on snow.” 10. Which county plays cricket at Lords? 8. “So, this is Christmas, and what have you done?” 11. In which European country is the town of 9. “When the snowman brings the snow. Well he Hamelin from the Pied Piper’s tale? just might like to know.” 12. Name the lead singer of the Foo Fighters who 10. “Oh, sing, choirs of angels. Sing in exultation.” was originally a drummer in the band Nirvana

Round three Christmas trivia 1. Which country does the Christmas tree in 5. Which UK soap was watched by over 30 million Trafalgar Square come from? viewers on Christmas Day 1986? 2. What is the name of the special hotline which 6. There are primarily three ‘spices’ in mulled provides turkey cooking advice in the USA as wine. What are they? referenced in TV’s ‘The West Wing’? 7. What is the name of the gardens in 3. Which novelty character bagged the UK Copenhagen, famous for its Christmas display Christmas #1 in 1993? and the inspiration for Disneyland? 4. What famous New York building is the 8. What is the name of Scrooge’s sister in centrepiece of the city’s Christmas celebrations? ‘A Christmas Carol’?

Final bonus round tie-breaker (if required) According to Guinness World Records how heavy is the largest 4 ever Christmas pudding? (to the nearest pound) Christmas quiz answers

Round one 12 days of Christmas… Round three Christmas trivia 1. Norwich 1. Norway 2. Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo 2. The Butterball hotline 3. Poule 3. Mr Blobby 4. Starling 4. The Rockefeller Center 5. Spandau Ballet 5. Eastenders 6. Top Gun 6. Cloves, cinnamon and star anise 7. Tchaikovsky 7. Tivoli 8. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 8. Fan 9. Red 10. Middlesex 11. Germany 12. Dave Grohl

Round two Christmas lyrics (name that tune!) 1. Good King Wenceslas 2. Fairytale of New York – The Pogues 3. Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses 4. We Three Kings 5. Away in a Manger 6. Last Christmas – Wham! 7. In the Bleak Midwinter 8. Happy Xmas (War is Over) – John Lennon 9. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday – Wizzard 10. O Come All Ye Faithful

Final bonus round tie-breaker (if required) 7,231 - This pudding took the villagers of Aughton, Lancashire, eight days to put together between 3-11 July 1992! 5 Craft your own Christmas ‘Boobles’

If you want to add something a bit more unique to the Christmas tree this year, cut out and design your own ‘Boobles’ (see what we did there?)

How to do it: Simply cut around both circles, add glitter, colour, material, whatever springs to mind and glue together! Poke a hole through the top Bid on a famous Booble! and thread through a piece of string or ribbon. As well as designing your own why not make a bid for a Booble designed by the We’d love to see your final designs so once likes of Matt Lucas, BBC’s Anne Davies they’re up on your tree why not share them and ’ Bella Ramsey? on social media and tag us in your posts. All proceeds will go directly to the work We’re @NottmBreastCancerResearchCtr of the Nottingham Breast Cancer on Facebook, @NottmBCRC on Twitter and Research Centre and you’ll get a unique @nottsbreastcancer on Instagram or use the decoration for your tree! hashtag #MyBooble – don’t forget to check your own while you’re at it! Find out more and get bidding at nott.ac.uk/booble 6 Bake your own festive buns…

Get into the Bake Off spirit and bake these festive iced buns! They Download could make a Christmas present if you’re looking to save money Recipe or maybe you’ll be taking part in a virtual bake-off?

And more…

Whether you are feeling energetic, sporty, silly or just plain generous – here’s a whistle-stop list of other ways you can get in the fundraising spirit in aid of NBCRC:

Boxing Day stair climb Christmas Jumper Day donations Work off the Christmas Dinner by going Friday 11 December is this year’s date. up and down a flight of stairs to the height Let workmates know and send your of a building/mountain of your choosing donations in to NBCRC. and ask for people to sponsor you.

Virtual collection bucket Christmas sweepstake Why not set up a PayPal pool and Grab a sweetie/chocolate tin of your choice, ‘pass it round’ friends or workmates. count the contents and ask people to You could even set up a goal to raise guess the number for a small entry fee. a certain amount (check the next Closest to the number wins the goodies! page for suggested amounts). 7 Recommendations from the team

As well as fundraising ideas, here’s some of the NBCRC team’s Christmas favourites to get you in the festive mood, as well as insights into how your support can make a real difference

Andy Green, Deputy Director Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre Film: It’s a Wonderful Life. No other film depicts the kindness of humanity in moments of despair. Carol Pairaudeau, Memory: Sneaking downstairs early in the morning to sneakily Breast Cancer Research unwrap my present and then having to re-wrap it and pretend I Administrator didn’t know what it was when unwrapping it for a second time.

Activity: I do actually enjoy “Did you know a donation of just £15 could fund the present wrapping - fairy 400 microscope slides to enable our researchers to lights, more fairy lights, log study cells and tissues?” fire, mulled wine, Christmas songs playing… Food: My favourite Christmas Stewart Martin, Director food is probably Lebkuchen. Or Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre maybe it’s definitely Lebkuchen Food: Christmas pud and brandy cream as I am happy to report these sauce – yum! have been on the supermarket shelves from early November Memory: Christmas dinner as a child at my grandma’s with all and I might just have to go and the family – uncles, aunts and cousins. It was a large family so I eat one now! still can’t understand how she managed to pull it off, we had to borrow chairs from neighbours to get everyone around the table. “Fundraising £1,600 Happy days (well, at least for the children, am sure the adults could fund a pilot found it a little bit stressful). research project for “A donation of just £80 could fund essential one month in one of consumables for a day of research such as solutions, our key areas.” tests and the materials needed to grow cell cultures.”

Sarah Storr, Nottingham Research Fellow Memory: My first memory is explaining to my grandma how Santa came down the chimney!

Song: Sorry, it has to be Mariah Carey, ‘All I want for Christmas’.

“Just £200 could fund 200 flasks so we can grow cancer cells in the laboratory, improving our understanding of how certain cancers behave.” 8 From everyone at the Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre: Thank you for your support!

Useful information

Although fundraising looks a bit different at the moment and is a bit more straightforward virtually, we are still here to help you plan an event. You can get in touch with us by emailing [email protected] where you can also ask for our ‘in aid of’ logo if you do run a fundraising activity. When you are fundraising for us you need to make people aware that you are fundraising in aid of the Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre and that your activity is not one organised by or representing the charity. For other ideas for virtual fundraising activities visit our page online, you can also read the rest of our legal small print online too. 9