Some feedback/experience on the wedding idea. We asked people for donations to SCI instead of gifts in 2011. We saw only £240 go to the charity + some money for ourselves (less than this). If we’d asked for money to set up a home / stuff instead we could have avoided costs exceeding that in the future. To put it in perspective, a few hours fundraising in Oxford highstreet got £280. I think the values etc. of your wedding invitees and what they think they’re there for on the day are very important to take into account. Further, if you do a fundraiser among your friends / family for one thing once they’re much less likely to give to that cause again a second time??
It might be a good per hour return but there’s a high per hour potential cost: each core relationship is worth a lot and people can feel used unless you do this tactfully. Charity Science’s web page has some absolutely fantastic suggestions of how to fundraise if you didn’t want to rinse your network.
Some feedback/experience on the wedding idea. We asked people for donations to SCI instead of gifts in 2011. We saw only £240 go to the charity + some money for ourselves (less than this). If we’d asked for money to set up a home / stuff instead we could have avoided costs exceeding that in the future. To put it in perspective, a few hours fundraising in Oxford highstreet got £280. I think the values etc. of your wedding invitees and what they think they’re there for on the day are very important to take into account. Further, if you do a fundraiser among your friends / family for one thing once they’re much less likely to give to that cause again a second time??
It might be a good per hour return but there’s a high per hour potential cost: each core relationship is worth a lot and people can feel used unless you do this tactfully. Charity Science’s web page has some absolutely fantastic suggestions of how to fundraise if you didn’t want to rinse your network.