I want to fundraise for the Oral Health Foundation. How do I get involved? 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. Take a look at what else is going on to see if you can attach your fundraising event to a certain cause. Perhaps you can arrange your event during National Smile Month or Mouth Cancer Action Month? You could even look at calendar events like World Oral Health Day as inspiration of when to hold your event. Next you should think about what you would like to raise money for. Take a look at our range of appeals to see what we're raising money for at this time. Once you have decided what you are doing, when and for which cause, 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 to your fundraising goals. Simply contact our press team. More information: Our appeals Create a fundraising page Planning your event Contact our press team
How do I make a donation? 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
How will you use the funds I've raised? Expand 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. Your donations make a huge difference in creating healthy smiles to more people around the world. By donating you join a wide range of wonderful people and organisations who are passionate about helping to promote and improve oral health. Dental care professionals, practices, non-health businesses, schools and other education bodies, large business and, importantly, members of the public, all help us to deliver our messages and we greatly welcome your support too. You are the reason we can continue to offer vital services which help promote and improve oral health. If you’d like more detail on how we raise and spend our money, take a look at the links below. More information: Oral Health Foundation Impact Report Why support us? Our mission and values Our appeals
How should I raise and collect funds? 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 forms [Oral Health Foundation | Mouth Cancer Action Month | National Smile Month] Contact our press team
I need help promoting my 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. More information: Create a fundraising page Editable event poster Social media image cards [download Twitter | Facebook | Instagram cards].