Raising support for your participation
In the ten years of this event's existence, the Moor Park 10k & Junior Fun Runs have raised nearly £330,000 for the Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre, helping us to meet some of the 20,000 requests for help we receive each year.
This event is one of the main fundraising events of the LJMC year so, on behalf of the people who use the centre's services, thank you for taking part.
Many runners choose to raise sponsorship for their participation, others make a donation with their entry form. Whatever method of support you choose, the LJMC is most grateful - thank you.
- Set yourself a target so that you can tell people your goal and ask them to help you achieve it
- Ask as many people as you can to sponsor you - family, friends, work colleagues - everyone you know
- Explain what you are doing and why, and, of course, where their sponsorship money will be going
- Set up your own fundraising page with Justgiving - the easy and efficient way to seek sponsorship using the power of the Internet (Justgiving gives lots of hints and tips on its own website at www.justgiving.com/tips or download their Top Tips guide)
Update your Facebook status so all your friends know what you're up to. 
Use Twitter to share the news of your participation - ask them to retweet to their followers too! - Maximise the sponsorship donations made by UK taxpayers by ensuring you get their full name and home address (house number/name and postcode as a minimum). Then just get them to tick the Gift Aid box on the sponsor form and that's an additional 28% raised - but it is essential that their name and home address are included otherwise we can't claim back anything at all.
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Getting support from work:
- Send an email round the company to let everyone know what you're doing and asking for their support (you never know, some of them may even come and join you!)
- Put something about the 10k into everyone's pigeonhole
- Add a link to your Justgiving page to your email signature
- Does your company have an internal newsletter? Ask the editor to write about your participation.
- Don't forget to ask if your employers will 'match fund' any money that you raise
- Is this a personal challenge for you? If so, let people know this so that they can give you maximum support.
- Are you aiming to beat your Personal Best, either for this event, or for this distance? If so, why not ask people to add additional sponsorship according to the extent to which you improve your PB?
- Invite people to guess your finishing time - with a prize for the person who guesses closest!
- If you are going round with a sponsor form, start with the people who will be the most generous - if people don't know how much to pledge, they will take their lead from the people already on the list (don't forget to take your sponsor form everywhere you go!)
- If you've got a personal story to tell, please contact our PR department.
Finally...
- Don't feel guilty about asking people to support you; by doing so they are also supporting the work of a fantastic charity
- Keep fundraising after you cross the Finish line - send everyone an email update to let them know how you did and nudge those who haven't yet sponsored you into doing so!
- We recognise that not everyone finds it easy to raise sponsorship and so we are immensely grateful to all the runners who will make this effort this year. If you'd still like to support the Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre, please consider adding a donation (Gift Aided, of course) to your entry fee. Every penny really does help in ensuring that the LJMC can continue to provide its services of support and information to people affected by cancer.
This page was last updated on: 3 January, 2012
Sponsor Forms will be available to download shortly.
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