Small Local Charity - Is a printed banner worth it for events?

uropachild

I am helping out a little bit with a fundraising mission in my local town for a little boy who has rare cancer. We are doing at least one baby sale of used items in the future, probably more. Also fundraising in other ways when the ideas and opportunity crops up.

We can buy an 8ft outdoors type banner on which to advertise the charity details for £45 and i wondered if anyone had any experience with these.

1. Is that a good price? I am going to do an internet search in a mo too.
2. Are they worth it? Would the banner make people donate more money than the £45 we would be laying out.
3. Have you got one? Where do you use it?
4. Anything else i need to know?

whitewing

You may need to check with the council regarding displaying these, as they may get taken down if on permanent display.

£45 sounds reasonable to me, and as long as you can display it while the event is ongoing at least, maybe with some balloons too to draw the eye, I would have thought it would do long term good for your charity and cover it's costs. (Maybe a local shop would pay the £45 for a small mention on the banner).

uropachild

Ooo that's a good idea! I wonder if there is a local printers who would help us out if we put "banner printed by..." on it.

It wouldn't be for permanent display, just for putting up when we're having events - sales, sponsored walks etc. so that people can see why we're there.

texranger

uropachild wrote: »

Ooo that's a good idea! I wonder if there is a local printers who would help us out if we put "banner printed by..." on it.

It wouldn't be for permanent display, just for putting up when we're having events - sales, sponsored walks etc. so that people can see why we're there.

so you will need the banner to display the charity name and number and the type of event with dates and times that can be changed per event

paddyrg

If it is for putting up during the event it just needs your charity name and number, but why not also include a call to action? Maybe 'please make a tax-free donation at justgiving.com/abccharity tonight', or 'save your pockets, give us all your change right now' or whatever. It'll be a reminder that you are not just organising the events, but want people to dig deep. I would say £45 for 8' sounds like a bit of a deal to me.

Savvy_Sue

I'm not sure I'd add too much detail to it - it needs to be readable by passing trade.

It's 8' long - how high is it?

You might want to go for "xyz charity event here today", and if you find you can put it up a few days in advance sometimes then get some old sheeting on which you can write the date with thick indelible pen, or 'Saturday' or whatever, and fix that securely over 'today', sort of doing a countdown.

I think it would be worth it in terms of making publicity easier. Also see if you can get some bunting to festivise the venue outside.

texranger

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I'm not sure I'd add too much detail to it - it needs to be readable by passing trade.

It's 8' long - how high is it?

You might want to go for "xyz charity event here today", and if you find you can put it up a few days in advance sometimes then get some old sheeting on which you can write the date with thick indelible pen, or 'Saturday' or whatever, and fix that securely over 'today', sort of doing a countdown.

yes thats the way to do it as we have an annual fair day and i think the banner they use is 15 yrs old at least and all they do is cover the actual date with the date of the yrs fair.

but if it is a registered charity then you will have to display the reg. charity number

Savvy_Sue

texranger wrote: »

but if it is a registered charity then you will have to display the reg. charity number

If I say that the reg. charity number doesn't need to be legible, I mean that the number doesn't have to legible at 50 paces. So keep it simple, you want it to be read by passing motorists so the less detail the better, have the charity no on so that it can be read by a passing pedestrian but don't make it too 'busy'.

chalkie99

I agree.

We supply a well known charity with banners on a regular basis and they do, indeed, have their registered number on them. However, on an 8ft x 2ft banner the number is no more than half an inch high and wouldn't even be noticed at normal viewing distance.

OP - £45 is a good competitive price for an 8ft x 2ft but you could try speaking nicely to one or two local sign companies and see if they can help in return for a "Supplied by xxxxxxx" line on the banner. I must admit we get so many requests for help it does get a bit overbearing sometimes but you just might find one in a good mood!

theesel1994

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

It's 8' long - how high is it?

An 8 ft banner will likely be 2 ft high.

texranger

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

If I say that the reg. charity number doesn't need to be legible, I mean that the number doesn't have to legible at 50 paces. So keep it simple, you want it to be read by passing motorists so the less detail the better, have the charity no on so that it can be read by a passing pedestrian but don't make it too 'busy'.

i never said the number had to be legible. many just have the number very small in a corner, its just that a registered charity MUST display the number on all publicity/stationery