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| A modest swim not a major fundraising initiative
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I am not asking for a major fundraising initiative to be organised.
It would be entirely up to you what sort of swim to arrange. It can be a modest
swim that can involve just a handful of people.
If the swim could be done on Sat 6th Dec, terrific. If that were difficult or
impossible for some reason, organising the swim for another day would be better
than no swim at all.
It does not matter how much money is raised by a swim. Any monies that are
raised would be sent directly by the local swim organiser to the Trust. Swims
would then just let me know how much they raised.
| Fundraising is easy (and not time consuming)
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For adults and students, emailing a few friends can be the least time
consuming way of raising money.
1. Send an email to 30 friends letting them know about the swim
(swim)
2. Collect sponsorship.
A possible email:
Dear x-
On Saturday 6th December x of us are swimming (collectively!) a distance
equivalent to the English Channel, 22 miles or 35 kms, in the y pool at z to
raise money for a little girl from Ipswich in the UK called Terri Calvesbert
who suffered 90% burns in a house fire. Terri has had 16 operations in 3 years
and will have operations every year for the rest of her life. She is
effectively in an artificial skin/grafted skin body suit that requires constant
surgery as she grows.
Would you sponsor me for £1, £5, £10, £25 etc to help her?
Any amount you give will ALL go to Terri's Trust fund. Further information from
www.SwimForTerri.org
I'd be very grateful. Best wishes
X
Yes, I'll sponsor you:
[ ] £1
[ ] £5
[ ] £10
[ ] £25
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The simple tactic of sending an email to each person starting 'Dear John' (etc)
has a HUGE success rate compared to a blanket email sent to 'Dear All'. In the
latter case many think 'someone else will sponsor him/her'.
For younger children a sponsorship form is appropriate, if not necessary. Part
of the fun is adding more names to the form and seeing the list grow. The
sponsorship form will be emailed to those contacting me and saying they would
like to do a swim.
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