Special Occasions
What better time to fundraise than
during a special moment?
Whether it’s your birthday, baby shower, wedding, anniversary, or during a special time of year, it’s a great opportunity to support Thin Blue Line UK.
🎁 Maybe ask for donations to
Thin Blue Line UK
instead of gifts?
🎉 Host a party or event with fundraising at its heart.
👕 Claim your free fundraising T-Shirt and wear it with pride on your Special Day!
📢 We’ll help promote your event through our News & Socials.
We’re here to support you every step of the way.
Get in touch with our News Team and let us know what you’re planning!
OUR TOP FUNDRAISING SUCCESS TIPS!
The biggest challenge for you, will be on deciding on what you want to do on your big day! We encourage you to be as creative as possible! Here at Thin Blue Line UK, the most important thing to us as a charity is whatever you decide to do, you have lots of fun and enjoy fundraising for us!
Please don't forget to get in touch with us, we can provide you with any help and support you may need to assist you with planning your event. Also, don't forget to claim your free fundraising Thin Blue Line UK charity T-Shirt, you can claim this at the bottom of the page!
Is it for your Birthday?
- Instead of gifts, ask friends and family to donate to Thin Blue Line UK!
- Set up a fundraising page on platforms like Just Giving or Facebook Fundraiser to make it easy for people to donate (links are below).
- Why not make it even more fun and organise a virtual birthday fundraiser with online challenges or games?
Is it for your Baby Shower, Wedding or Anniversary?
- Ask guests to donate to Thin Blue Line UK instead of giving wedding favours or gifts. Contact us to get some of our donation envelopes!
- Set up a donation page for your wedding or anniversary celebration to make it easy for people to donate (links are below).
- Incorporate Thin Blue Line UK's brand colours into your wedding theme or decorations.
Is it for an important Holiday such as Christmas, Eid or Easter?
- Why not organise an event such as a Christmas jumper day in work?
- Raise money during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr by donating or fundraising using fundraising platforms to make it easy (links are below).
- Why not host a holiday-themed bake sale or gift wrapping event for Thin Blue Line UK to celebrate?
1. PREPARATION IS KEY
Decide on what you are wanting to do. Set a date, funding target and consider writing and sharing a story around why you are fundraising (look at our 'About Us' page for inspiration). Get others involved to help you and consider what you need.
2. START A FUNDRAISER
For in person events consider ways to keep your money safe. For virtual events create an online donation page through "Just Giving" or "Facebook Fundraiser", to kickstart your fundraising. People can give you donations online and send you supportive messages.
3. SPREAD THE WORD
For in person events consider ways to keep your money safe. For virtual events create an online donation page through "Just Giving" or "Facebook Fundraiser", to kickstart your fundraising. People can give you donations online and send you supportive messages.
4. HAVE FUN & KEEP US UPDATED
The day is here! Remember have lots of fun, you deserve it! Take lots of photos during your day and share them with us. Let us know how it went, we love being told! If you need some advice on how to send us your funds, please get in touch so we can help.
USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES
Have a look at the below links to make planning your event as simple and hassle free as possible!
Set up a Facebook Fundraiser
Create a Facebook Fundraiser, this allows people to donate safely and directly to your event via Facebook without going through a third party website. Useful for any virtual events you want to hold. This is free, no fees are taken by Facebook, Thin Blue Line UK will receive all the funds raised.
Set up a Just Giving Page
Create a Just Giving page for your event, to fundraise for Thin Blue Line UK. This site is classed as the world's most trusted platform for online giving. Useful to set up for any virtual events you want to hold. Just Giving do charge a payment processing fee of 1.9% + 20p on any donation.
Resource Centre
COMING SOON!
Our resource centre comes with a variety of different information posters and ideas for social media posts to help your event message gets out there, ensuring it will be a guaranteed success!
Are you completing an event to fundraise for Thin Blue Line UK?
If so, claim your free charity fundraising T-Shirt below. Choose from a range of colours to make sure you stand out at your event and wear it with pride!
We offer additional discounted T-Shirts to our fundraisers to be worn by anyone helping you on the day of your event to help raise funds for Thin Blue Line UK.
As a charity, we also regularly send out additional resources such as copies of our Mental Health Guide, pens and information cards for certain types of events.
We hope by doing this it helps to spread the fantastic work that the charity does, whilst reinforcing the importance of promoting positive mental health and wellbeing.
