I need help promoting my Mouth Cancer Action event. Can you help me? Expand Yes. Our team is on hand to help you ensure your fundraising is as successful as it can be. From providing posters, sponsorship forms, social media and press release templates, help is on hand to help spread awareness. Here are our quick tips to making your event the talk of the town... Use local media: Local newsletters, daily papers, radio stations and television in your area are always keen on covering events for a good cause, so make them aware of the details of your event in good time! Some ingenious advertising of your own can also increase your audience. Hand out flyers: A cheap, effective way of promoting your event is to hand out flyers a few weeks in advance. Make them as interesting as possible: include all the key information such as the date, venue and type of event you have planned. Make sure people know about your event! Smile for the camera: Think about photo opportunities – local papers love to use fun, entertaining photos as a basis for covering of local events. Book a photographer, because a good photo is a great way of generating media coverage and makes an excellent memento of your successful event. Write a press release: Why not send out a press release too? It’s an excellent means of promoting a good oral healthcare message through your local media outlets to a large, local audience. Go social: Post about your event on social media. Create a fundraising page on our website and ask people to share it. You might be surprised about far far and wide it goes. Need more of a helping hand? That’s no problem. Contact our dedicated PR team who are experts in making some noise around events. Together we can help guide you on your fundraising journey.
How should I raise and collect funds from friends, family and supporters? Expand You can set up a personalised online by creating your very own donation page. This offers a really easy way for people to sponsor you and add messages of support to spur you on when the training gets tough. When creating your own fundraising page you can select where your money goes. You can choose to donate it to the Oral Health Foundation in general, to help us achieve all our charitable objectives, or select one of our rotating appeals, which help go towards a specific cause. You can then share your page on Facebook and Twitter to get the word out to all your friends and family. If you’re looking a bit low tech, we can also help support you with collection tins to collect some cash. You can also download and print off one of our sponsorship forms. More information: Create a fundraising page Sponsorship form for Mouth Cancer Action Contact our press team
How do you use the funds raised for Mouth Cancer Action? Expand Funds raised for our Mouth Cancer Action Appeal will be used to help make more people aware of the causes, signs and symptoms of mouth cancer so cases can both be prevented and caught early enough for effective intervention. Your support will also help us continue our drive to change behaviours which contribute to the majority of mouth cancer cases in the UK, such as minimum alcohol pricing and plain cigarette packaging. Your donations make a huge difference in helping us to save lives from mouth cancer. Without your support, Mouth Cancer Action Month would not be possible and you are the reason we are able to continue raising awareness of a disease that affects more and more people each year. You can be assured that your fundraising goes to exactly where you want it to. As a charity we are entirely open and honest with our intentions and show you what your fundraising goes towards.
How do I make a donation for Mouth Cancer Action? Expand You can send us your donations in various ways, whichever is most convenient for you. The safest and quickest way you can send us your money is online through our donations portal. Simply select which appeal you would like to donate to and enter the amount you have raised for us. You can also pay in your money offline too. If you have collected money through a sponsorship form or a fundraising event, you can either send us your card details via our donation form, or send us a cheque with our paying in slip. Both of these forms (links below) will guide you about where to send your donations. For your security, please do not send us cash in the post. Finally, you can issue a bank transfer. If you would like to do this, contact our team and we will guide you through this process. More information: Donate to the Oral Health Foundation Donate to our other causes Donation form Paying in slip Payroll giving
I want to fundraise for Mouth Cancer Action Month. What do I do? Expand Start by taking a look at our top fundraising ideas to help inspire you to get involved. If you’re not sure what you want to do, send us a message and we’ll be in touch to help you find the fundraising activity that’s perfect for you. If you're planning on doing a fundraising event during Mouth Cancer Action Month, why not arrange your event for Blue Wednesday? Once you have decided what you are doing and when, go to our create a fundraising page. This page will allow you to enter all your event details and share it with your friends and family so they can donate and support you. You can even upload photos and videos of your journey along the way! If you need anymore help, check out our planning your event page. We are also on hand to offer support and advice to help you achieve your fundraising goals. Simply contact our press team. More information: Create a fundraising page Planning your event Contact our press team