Books galore!

Here’s another easy way to raise money for your expedition that we have been testing out to raise money for our chosen charities.  How many books do you have on your shelf collecting dust? Why not collect funds for your expedition by selling these on? You can hold book sales, list them on Amazon or use Green Metropolis, a free and easy to use website.

All you need to do is register on www.greenmetropolios.com and add all your unwanted books to your account. If you are under 18 you will need a parent or guardian to set up an account for you.

 

To list your books, simply select the ‘Sell a Book’ option. For each book you wish to sell you’ll need to enter the ISBN (that’s the book’s number on the back, next to the barcode), the condition of the book and if it’s a heavier book, select a Postage Payment.

Books are sold at £3.75 and £3.00 is credited to your account once this has been received.

Lisa has started off doing this and says that, “in addition to listing my own books I have asked friends, colleagues and neighbours if I can take their old books off their hands and many have jumped at the opportunity to clear some shelf space! “

Lisa has only been listing and selling books for 2 months and has already raised £15. Laura has three bags full of books to add into the mix so we should see the £’s come rolling in.

Lisa's London Marathon Training

Our very own Senior Fundraising Support Advisor has taken on not one but two crazy challenges.  The first of these is to run this year’s London Marathon and the second is that she has pledged to raise £2000 for her chosen cause, the National Hospital of Neurology and Neuroscience.

With around 3 months left to train Lisa has stepped her regime up another gear.  We will be keeping you updated on her training and fundraising progress.  Here is her latest instalment.

“Training is going well and I am on schedule with the regime.

I tend to complete one long run during the weekends (upping my mileage each week) – so I can get out in daylight and then at least two shorter runs in the week. That means either getting up at the crack of dawn and running in the morning before work or getting home and donning the running shoes in the evening (cue high-vis jacket)

This weekend was a gruelling 13 miles, but I was happy that I didn’t ache the following day. I am taking this as a sign that I am getting fitter. However the prospect that I am only at the half way stage still makes me realise this challenge is still miles away (excuse the pun).

I am engrossed in reading about running- autobiography’s, techniques – how to save your feet – all useful and informative, I’m picking up new information each day and boring my friends and colleagues with the particulars. Its only 93 days to go and counting

I have now created my online fundraising page and am ready to get this out to friends, family and colleagues http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=LisaRadjenovic&faId=65445&isTeam=false.”

Keep checking back to see how Lisa is getting on with her training and her fundraising towards her massive target.  Some of her training tips might also come in handy to improve your fitness for your expedition!

New Year, new start? Well not quite yet.

OK so we have been slightly lax since we have got back to work regarding our blog and fundraising as there was a lot to catch up on after the festive period.  We will be planning and running some more fundraisers in the near future but in the meantime we'll update you on something that we already have up and running and that you might find very useful.

The majority of us use the internet every day so why not get paid for something you are already doing? Visit www.easysearch.org.uk to see how you can make money simply by doing searches that you would generally go on Google etc.  Use easysearch every time you search the Web and the site will give 50% of the fees paid by their advertising sponsors to your chosen cause.  You don’t have to be a charity so you can register your World Challenge expedition.

You can email the link to all your friends and family too so that every time they search the internet you can reap the reward.  Although it may seem slow going if you get lots of people to use the site the more money you will raise.  An example from the site states that if you do just 10 searches a day you could raise £20 a year.  Not bad for something that you normally do!

Lisa has been using this site to raise money for the National Hospital of Neurology and Neuroscience and has sent links to people on facebook and her email contacts.  We will keep you updated on her progress in the coming weeks and months.

Similarly if you and your family do lots of online shopping why not do it through a site called easyfundraising to gain cash back on the items that you buy.  For example if you buy something from Amazon you can get a 2.5% donation towards your cause.

Easyfundraising is a free fundraising service where you can raise money for groups and individuals just by shopping online. It doesn't cost a penny extra to shop and raise funds for your cause using the website, and as many retailers now give extra discounts when you buy online, you can even save money!

Any charity, organisation, association, trust, sports club or team, school or pre-school, religious group, community group including Scouts/Guides/ATC/Boys Brigade/etc, theatre, arts, dance or musical group, Rotary /Lions club can use our service, no matter how small or large. You can also use the service if you are an individual raising funds for a sponsored event, or if you are a school or group raising funds for an expedition. 

Visit http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ for details on how to sign up and to get started raising some money!

We have a very similar site that we use through work.  Over the Christmas period Lisa and Laura managed to gain over £30 in cash back.  By doing this for all your regular shopping the £’s could soon start rolling in.