Our target this year is €350,000, which we can only achieve with your help! We are asking all participants to raise an individual fundraising amount of at least €120 from family, friends and colleagues. Here are some ideas for a successful and fun fundraising campaign.

Organisational

• Identify a ‘Firm Rep’ to promote the event in your firm. Provide senior level support to the rep.

• Nominate a ‘Department Ambassador’(department Head or Partner) to promote the run in their department.

• Create a committee to organise fundraising ideas.

• Register a firm team on the Calcutta Run registration page.

• Set a fundraising target for your firm - a total of monies raised by staff through sponsorship, fundraising events, firm donations.

• Your firm may choose to cover the participant’s full sponsorship amount or 50%, requesting that the participant matches the amount.

• Make a firm donation to the Calcutta Run.

• Promote intra-department competition– see who can sign up the most participants.

• Sponsor branded firm t-shirts for participants.

• Participate in the ‘Firm Team Challenge’ as a runner or walker.

• Use the official ‘Calcutta Run Supporter Firm’ footer on the firm’s correspondence and emails and highlight your involvement on your website.

• Weekly communications– emails, electronic signage and messaging.

• Ask your clients and suppliers for support.

Events

• Encourage staff to organise a fundraising event on the Calcutta Run Official Fundraising Day.

• Firm-wide table-quiz in the cafeteria or local pub.

• Monthly Dress down days with a donation of  €2-4 for participants.

• Organise a Sign-up desk on particular days with a Calcutta Run Supporter Firm pack

• Arrange a fun office day – bike smoothie makers, fitness corner with a local gym, human fussball.

• Arrange a department bake-off bake-sale or coffee-morning.

• Organise a raffle (ask your firm service providers, network and clients for prize donations).

• 8-week lunch-time training – ask a few runners to rotate taking people out on a 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5k run, building up to 5k over 8 weeks .

• Enter a team in to the Calcutta Run tag rugby or golf tournament.

Incentives

Internal team challenges, prizes or competitions are a great way to encourage participants. here are some inventive ideas to consider:

• Top 3 fundraisers receive a day’s annual leave.

• Participants with the best times receive a day’s annual leave.

• All participants who take part are entered in to a draw to receive a day’s annual leave.

• Beat the boss (can you beat your department head’s time?) and receive a half-day.

Virtual

For nationwide events and to include staff who are working virtually and regionally, consider organising one of the following events:

• Online Pub Quiz

• Virtual Book Club 

• Webinar or Workshop – Host a webinar to educate and keep a group up to date. Invite friends, clients and suppliers and ask them to donate to your idonate.ie individual or firm page.

• Online Bingo– organise for family and friends or a fun firm-wide online bingo night!

Funds raised by online fundraising events can be added directly to your individual or firm fundraising page on idonate.ie. Simply send the link to all involved!