Your Fundraising Toolkit Bring some wild fun into your office and fundraise with your colleagues! Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is registered in England no. 409650 and is a registered charity no. 210807. Registered Office: 1 St George’s Place, York, YO24 1GN CARTER KIRSTEN Together with our supporters and We want to inspire everyone to have a volunteers, we are committed to stronger connection with nature; from creating a Yorkshire rich in wildlife for nature tots to guided walks we enable the benefit of everyone. From saving more people to learn about and love our wildlife and wild places to bringing Yorkshire’s wildlife. We are also part of people closer to nature, we have a vision The Wildlife Trusts enabling us to work of a wilder future. both nationally and locally to influence planning, policy and legislation to ensure Yorkshire Wildlife Trust manages over a brighter, more considered future for 100 nature reserves across Yorkshire: Yorkshire’s wildlife. from the iconic and internationally- important ‘seabird city’ at Flamborough Unfortunately wildlife and the Cliffs in the East, to the great upland environment is trouble! ‘15% of species swathes of carbon-capturing peatland, [are] now threatened with extinction we actively manage these wonderfully from Great Britain’1 and ‘all the top 10 wild places to ensure wildlife can thrive. warmest years since records began have occurred post-1990’. Across Yorkshire, We work across Yorkshire together agricultural intensification, urban with a range of partners to protect and development and climate change have connect even more of Yorkshire’s wild all had an impact on our wild places places giving wildlife the freedom to over the last century. However we have move and flourish in an ever-changing the chance to make a real difference. Thank you world. We call this concept a Nature Species such as the willow tit are clinging Recovery Network, and any wild space on in Yorkshire when they have been – be it a council-owned park, a farm lost elsewhere. We create bigger, better for supporting or a school field or garden – can be an and more connected wild places to allow important part of it. wildlife to recover. NATHAN ANDERSON NATHAN Yorkshire Wildlife Trust EMIEL MOLENAAR 1 State of Nature Report 2019 3 Fundraising at work £25 £150 £750 £2,000 Fundraising in the workplace is a great way to improve staff morale, connect colleagues from different teams together, engage employees with local causes and CSR strategies and to bring some fun competition into the office! By fundraising could provide a volunteer with a could support specialist tree work to could buy 2000 native marginal plug could help to restore 1600m2 of our for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust you’re also helping to protect and restore Yorkshire’s litter picker, gloves and sacks to clean restore our woodland nature reserves. plants enough to enhance 200m of iconic Yorkshire peatlands. spectacular wildlife and wild places for the benefit of everyone. Yorkshire’s Beaches removing waste, riverbank to help species like water voles including plastics that never fully and great crested newts. biodegrade, which is harmful to wildlife. Go wild, enjoy and good luck! LV= Challenge The Three Peaks It’s super easy to get involved: Have fun, take photos and be sure to put them on social media to show your colleagues, stakeholders and us what you’re up Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 to! Don’t forget to tag us too. Step 1 Promote and Invite! If it’s an internal Prepare! Whether you’re training Donate! Thank you for taking part; if you have collected cash you event be sure to promote it to your for a sporting event or decorating can bring it to our office in York. Otherwise you can make your Who what where when? Who’s taking colleagues do you have an intranet the office for a bake sale make sure donation by cheque, BACS or online via our website or if you’re getting sponsored use JustGiving. part? Where will it be held? When or employee newsletter? Or if it’s you have everything you need! We Step would be the best time to get the most a bigger event make sure the local have donation tins you can borrow as 5 • www.ywt.org.uk/support-us/donate people involved? If it’s outdoors you community is aware. There’s a handy well as leaflets and materials. If your • www.justgiving.com/fundraising/yorkshire-wlidlife-trust need to think about the weather or poster at the back of this to print or event is taking place in or around the • Cheques made out to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust ,1 St George’s are people on annual leave at certain you can download it on our website. office do you need permission or to Place, York YO24 1GN times of year? complete a risk assessment? • Email: [email protected] 4 5 Here’s some ideas to get you started, Don’t forget! but get creative and make up your own too: Can your employer match fund your donation? Speak to your line manager to see if the company offers match funding to double your fundraising donation. O2 Beach Clean • Challenge yourself to go • Why not ask your local plastic free for a week with • Be seen to be green. Don’t forget to make your event as your office snacks - and then bakery or store if they • Have an office picnic: environmentally-friendly as possible. Avoid using items which could be can supply cakes at a head outside at lunch time harmful to wildlife and the environment, such as plastic bags, balloons CHELSEA BRADBURY CHELSEA charge a £1 fine for every plastic wrapped snack that discounted price and the and share some food. and lanterns. If you’re hosting an event make sure people can get to your sneaks in! sell them at the office at event by public transport/walking/cycling; and remember to recycle as the regular retail price and • Have a gardening or growing much as possible! • Host a ‘Wear Your Wellies to then donate the difference? competition; who can grow Work’ day; charge colleagues £1 the tallest sunflower or the • We can provide branded collection tins and buckets to help collect and have fun finding out who most tomatoes? donations in a safe and secure way. has the most stylish pair! • We do not recommend any activities involving alcohol. • Swim, run, walk, cycle, row, dance: • Make sure our charity number and website is on any promotional material* • Have a competitive litter challenge yourself to undertake SYDNEY RAE ZI SYDNEY pick! Get sponsored to pick a sporty race - whether that’s a litter around your work place dance-athon or marathon. • Be sure to check fundraising regulations and always operate within the or at home. law, especially if organising a raffle or lottery style activity. If in doubt give • The Great Wild Bake Off – who us a call or email [email protected] • Encourage everyone to wear can create the wildest cake? wildlife fancy dress to the • Celebrate your success; put your story on social media, in the local paper, office and ask for a donation • Or how about a quiz, bingo, board on the staff intranet - and don’t forget to let us know so we can share from everyone who joins in. game night or karaoke session? your success. 6 *charity number 210807 and registered in England 409650 7 We’re holding a ... Venue: Date and time: How to join in ... Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is registered in England no. 409650 and is a registered charity no. 210807. Registered Office: 1 St George’s Place, York, YO24 1GN Photo: Ilana Grostern.