Fundraising

SOFT UK rely almost entirely on fundraising and donations to be able to carry out our work.

There are many ways that you can raise funds for us.

Download a copy of our FUNDRAISING PACK to get you started!

Social Media Assets

To help you share the campaign and create awareness of your fundraising, we have a selection of social media assets, which you can include in your communication (attached) when you share the fundraiser with your network.

Experience Days

We are grateful to Experience Days for their kind support, providing SOFT UK with a raffle prize at a sporting fundraiser. To find out more about them, please visit their web page which can be found here: https://www.experiencedays.co.uk/charity-scheme

Online Clothing Store

If you are planning on fundraising, holding an event or attending one of our events, why not head over to this ONLINE STORE to kit yourself out.

We are occasionally asked for merchandise by supporters, but due to limited resources, it's not possible for us to keep stock. Instead, we've teamed up with TotalClothing,who can supply a selection of items featuring our logo.

Please note: To keep your costs as low as possible, we have not added a mark-up and do not receive any funds from the sale of these items.

Raise funds every time you shop!

Do you shop online? Did you know that every time you buy something you could be raising money for SOFT UK?

That’s right - over 4000 well known retailers including M&S, Boden, Waitrose, House of Fraser, Vodafone, Virgin Atlantic and many more, will donate a percentage of what you spend to SOFT UK! when you shop with them.

It’s like nectar but instead of earning points, each purchase generates a donation. So instead of going directly to a retailer’s website, go to your chosen fundraising site first and choose the retailer you want to shop with – then everything you spend with that retailer earns a free donation for SOFT UK. It’s completely free to use and your shopping won’t cost you a penny more.

On average, each retailer will donate 5% of the cost of your shopping - and those donations soon mount up.

So whatever you need to buy, from your weekly grocery shop or fashion must-have, to your business travel, office supplies or mobile phone, buy it via one of these providers and raise money for SOFT UK at no extra cost to you!

Easyfundraising https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/softuk/

Give as You Live https://www.giveasyoulive.com/join/softuk

Amazon Smile https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1002918-0

Raise Funds Recycling

We have partnered with Recycling for Good Causes, to offer ways to recycle everyday items and raise money for SOFT UK at the same time.

Donate your Stamps

You can now donate your used stamps to raise much needed funds for SOFT UK. All kinds of stamps are welcome, on or off paper.

Simply cut or carefully rip the postage stamp from the used envelope, being careful that you don’t damage the stamp, and once you have a collection pop them in an envelope making sure you have the correct postage to:

SOFT UK
PO Box 16992
Sutton Coldfield
B73 9YA

(*postage needs to be applied*)

Jewellery and Bank Notes

You can donate all your broken and unwanted jewellery to raise money for SOFT UK. If you have any gold, silver, odd earrings, broken chains, costume jewellery and watches, you can recycle them at no cost to you whilst making money for SOFT UK.

We can recycle:

Any jewellery – gold, silver, costume jewellery, watches, broken and damaged items (like odd earrings, snapped chains or items with missing stones).
Any unwanted banknotes – old and new, UK and foreign banknotes, including all the pre Euro notes that are now worthless to you.

If you would like to send your jewellery and banknote recycling to us, simply wrap, pack, print label and send!

Use your own envelope or jiffy bag, no bigger than A5 in size, and post free of charge by printing out this freepost label and attaching it to your envelope.

Please do not send coins to the freepost address above as the postage costs will far outweigh your donation.

Larger Items

Alternatively if you would be interested in collecting larger items on behalf of SOFT UK you could start a Recycling Project with us.

For further information:

• info@recyclingforgoodcauses.org
• 0800 633 5323

Discover Adventure

Fancy a real fundraising CHALLENGE?

A Walking Marathon? Cycling in Europe? Or a trek to an Ancient Monument?

Whatever your idea of an exhilarating trip, Discover Adventure can turn it into a fundraising opportunity for SOFT UK.
We have partnered with them to offer you the opportunity to take part in fabulous fundraising challenges. Discover Adventure take all the hard work out of your fundraising, by organising a range of OPEN CHALLENGES to choose from. They offer a range of adventures in the UK and further afield.

Signing up couldn’t be easier.

Simply visit their website on https://www.discoveradventure.com/challenges#/holidays
Browse their range of OPEN CHALLENGES.
When you book, select SOFT UK as your chosen charity.

Discover Adventure will take it from there…….

You can even fundraise online for SOFT UK using our VirginMoneyGivingfundraising platform .

And don’t forget to send us your Fundraising Stories for our newsletter and social media!

GoSkyDive

Still not enough Adrenalin for you?

Then why not jump out of a plane for SOFT UK!

Our fundraising partner GoSkyDive can book a jump date online and start your fundraising with VirginMoneyGiving today!

https://www.goskydive.com/support-organisation-trisomy-soft-uk/

Joe Pettit on his fundraising skydive for SOFT UK.