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This December, Yes Futures is taking part in our biggest crowdfund yet - the Big Give Christmas Challenge, and we need your help.
We’ve been selected by one of our donors, The Dulverton Trust, to take part in the Christmas Challenge. In doing so they will match fund every pound we raise during the challenge up to £10,000!
That means we have the potential to raise £20,000 in a 7 day period on the Big Give platform between 3rd December midday and 10th December midday.
This will make a huge difference to us supporting another 350 young people through our coaching programmes in 2025.
That’s where you come in. As a coach or supporter of Yes Futures’ work we’re asking you to get involved in one or more of the following ways:
Share the campaign with your friends, family and colleagues/clients via email / social media - if you sign up to the campaign emails below you’ll get access to template emails and social media posts, including images you can use and share. Sharing your experience of volunteering or working with Yes Futures to support disadvantaged young people, will go a long way to inspiring others to donate.
Donate as little as £1 yourself which will be matched, so that your £1 becomes £2. This must be done between midday on 3rd December - midday on 10th December on the our campaign page here for the donation to be doubled. Payments can be made by debit/credit card or BACs transfer. If you can give more £5, £10, £20 or £50 that would be incredible - please give whatever you can.
Or raise funds for us by organising some kind of fundraising activity (see some ideas below). This is where you could help us create the greatest impact by engaging your clients, community or network in making donations directly on the platform or through an event you organise.
Fundraising ideas for Coaches
We have an A-Z of fundraising ideas which might inspire you but if you have a coaching business you could also consider some of these ideas:
Coachathon - For a set period of time, offer the opportunity for clients/individuals to book a coaching session with you at a “pay as you feel” rate, where all payments go towards the Yes Futures Big Give campaign (you’d either collect the payments and then make a donation via the Big Give platform during the campaign week OR ask clients to make the donation directly during the week).
Coaching Challenge - set yourself a goal of providing X number of coaching sessions within a specific time period, which people sponsor you for
Engage your mailing list - If you have a mailing list of clients and followers why not tell them about your experience of volunteering with Yes Futures and the impact we make, with you our coaches, asking them to make a donation during the campaign week (we can share template emails and social media posts if this is helpful)
Give a proportion of your coaching sales during November to Yes Futures, or make it an option for your clients to add a donation to any purchases from you / your website.
If you’re thinking about organising any kind of fundraising activity to support our campaign it would really help us if you let us know about it here. That way we can make sure to support you through the process and it will help us know how far we still need to go to raising funds.
Join the campaign
If you’d like to receive regular updates about the campaign, join here. We won’t spam you but we will send you weekly updates about the campaign with resources and ideas of how you can get involved. And during the campaign week we’ll send you some updates on how much we’ve raised.
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