Raising funds for a 3yr old with Neuroblastoma - cancer

sonicshelly

mercman1969 wrote: »

Shelly,

Is this treatment you refer to proton therpay?

Our 3 year old has brain stem cancer and we have also started to put into place to open a trust for just such a condition

Maybe we could join forces? feel free to PM me

Hi have spoken to the parents and apparently proton therapy isn't ready for Neuroblastoma in this country yet. They are looking at a number of treatments, including monoclonal anitbody thereapy.

I will give them your details though, in case they want to get in touch, thanks again.

sonicshelly

ahai1 wrote: »

How about a car wash or a jumble sale?

Hi there, the local fire station did a car wash for their own charity and for Chelsea, raised £943 to be shared.
I also did a tabletop sale early October, raising £1338

We have also done a darts, quiz and raffle at a local band club, there is a soul disco and fancy dress disco planned. We have collected at our local football ground and Asda.

I will have to do another sale as I have tonnes of items left over from before.
I am planning an Elvis night, as we have local to us an Elvis impersonator who made it to the BBC finals of their Elvis competition.
I want to do a pamper evening aswell. But with it being a large amount of money we need to do so much and need lots of people to help us.

Thanks for your reply though. Cheers

sonicshelly

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

I note from your first post that you have done a collection at your local supermarket, but what about doing bag packing, especially with it coming up to Xmas and shoppers having trolley loads of groceries.

I did it with my DS years ago for his local swimming club and we raised quite a bit. Sorry can't remember the exact figure. People are possibly more likely to donate money to this than to someone just standing there with a bucket (as you can easily be not noticed).

I have asked at Morrisons, as I thought it would be better to give something back to people for donating, but they are fully booked for bag packs up till xmas, and have offered us to collect in store, in the foyer 1 Dec. Tesco's said you have to be registered to collect their. Still to ask Sainsburys.

But a group of 8 people on a committee, can't do everything all at once.
We keep asking in the local paper, if anyone can help organise an event, maybe at their work, their childs school or local pub. But response has been small unfortunately????
Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.

ahai1

You have done a lot. One thing you can do is to raise money by using the website for things like referals.

lauranurse

How about a fundraising pamper evening and/or crafts party?

Ms_Chocaholic

Sorry if this suggestion is so vague, but what are these websites where you click on them every day to get a (such and such).

Could you set up one of those.

Hopefully someone will be along who knows what I mean

Unfortunately I'm not in your area otherwise I'd give you a hand with the bag packing.

ahai1

You mean something like http://www.thehungersite.com

sonicshelly

lauranurse wrote: »

How about a fundraising pamper evening and/or crafts party?

Hi, I am hoping to organise one of them next year, thought i would let people get xmas out of the way first.
Thanks

sonicshelly

ahai1 wrote: »

You have done a lot. One thing you can do is to raise money by using the website for things like referals.

Sorry what does that mean, how do I do that? Thanks

ahai1

The following forum maybe of some help http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=42. What happens is that you put a link on your site and companies give you cash for getting people to join their website or clicking on a link or if you buy something through something like http://buy.at. Then there is also google adsense but you cannot encourage people to click on that. https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview. I hope that helps but maybe someone with a better answer can come along as it is quite hard to explain.