£40K in 40 days

Registered charity no. 1095134

Welcome to £40k in 40 days!

In 2019 Challengers is celebrating their 40th birthday and we are looking to end the year with a bang! With just a few months left to hit our fundraising target we really need your help and so we are asking our incredible corporate supporters to help with the launch

of our exciting but ambitious campaign to raise £40k in 40 days and we hope you are up for the challenge!

Not to worry, you are not expected to raise the entire £40,000! But together with all our corporate supporters we can reach our target.

To break this figure down, if 80 supporters were to raise £500 this is only £12.50 a day!

We will be there to support you every step of the way, with lots of ideas, materials and even a ‘roadshow’ that will be visiting, promoting and supporting all our participants.

To get you started we have created this pack, filled with lots of ways you can help us and we can help you, from fundraising ideas to fun challenges and even some events! The pack is designed to help you along the way and to give you any additional tools if you need them. Of course, this pack is only a guide and we are excited for you to use

your own imagination, contacts and skills to support us.

If you have any questions, require fundraising materials or you are stuck for ideas, please do not hesitate at any time to get in touch. We would be delighted to help you.

Thank you so much!

We know that raising money for charity is what you do in addition to normal jobs so we wanted to offer you something in return! As a participant of the £40k in 40 days

campaign we would like to offer you:

Promotion on our website as one of our fantastic participants.

Promotion on our social media throughout the 40 day period, to tell our followers the amazing work that you have been doing

A visit from a member of our fundraising team as part of our ‘roadshow’, to take photos and generally received support with your fundraising

A weekly newsletter, with updates on progress and superstar fundraisers to ensure you are kept in the loop with the progress of campaign

Invite to our £40k in 40 days coffee morning where you have the opportunity to network with other members and take a tour of our Guildford centre.

The knowledge that you will be a hugely important part of Challengers 40th Birthday legacy!

A prearranged tour of the play centre at our Guildford or Farnham centres to show you the impact of your incredible work.

An amazing team building opportunity! This is a great way to get the whole office involved in some extracurricular activities and work together for a great cause!

A beautiful certificate to display in your office for all to see!

Awards and Prizes:

During the 40 days we are looking for stand out fundraisers, and we will presenting some awards at our Christmas Business Club event.

Categories are still to be announced, keep an eye on the £40k in 40 days newsletter!

Refer a friend:

As part of this campaign we were wondering if you

could challenge a corporate friend or

business rival to join the campaign too? You could

see this as sharing the load, or why not make it in to a competition? There is

a reward for each company that refers a friend!

What's in it for you?

By taking part in this challenge you are agreeing to donate at least the £40 back to Challengers. We would

like to thank our anonymous supporter for generously sponsoring this year’s Accumulator Challenge.

£40 are available on a first come, first serve basis! To receive your £40 to get started please

email fundraising@disability-challengers.org

Accumulator Challenge

Back for a second year, the extremely popular Accumulator Challenge will form part of our 40 day campaign in 2019!

This year we are giving companies £40 to turn in to as much money for Challengers as you possibly can! You can be as creative as you would like with your fundraising, as long as it’s safe and legal!

The Accumulator Challenge is an excellent team building opportunity and a great way to engage staff. It’s a chance to use your business skills and work together as a team to come up with creative and innovative ways to raise as much money as possible. Take a look at some winning ideas from last year!

This challenge finishes with the £40k in 40 days campaign on the 6th December, and we’ll be celebrating everyone’s achievements at the Business Club Event at Loseley Park on the 12th December.

We’ll also be presenting prizes to the company who raises the most money through the Accumulator Challenge and the one who comes up with the most innovative fundraising idea! Good luck!

BEST Business Group raised £715 last year by raffling off

their £50 note.

RBS raised £500 by organising a Halloween dress up competition, a tombola and samosa sale! They also go their fundraising match

funded for an additional £500 added to the pot.

Four teams at ramsac raised £1469 by washing cars, running a cinema and poker night and running a

weekly hot lunch scheme!

Vail Williams raised £332 by running a bake sale and a prize

PSFM raised £273 by running a Challengers Tuck Shop.

If we could, we would turn the world orange! On scheme our play workers all wear orange and for the children and young people this colour has become synonymous with feeling happy and safe.

We like to celebrate this colour in all its glory for one day a year! Challengers HQ had their ‘Orange Day’ and celebrated by wearing orange outfits, eating yummy orange treats and even an ‘orange themed quiz’!

Your ‘orange day’ can be as extravagant as you like, you could include a raffle, a costume competition or simply make a donation for taking part!

This is a fantastic way to raise vital funds for Challengers, spread awareness of the importance of inclusive play and celebrate what Challengers means to you!

Wearing my orange t-shirt

is almost like wearing a

superheroes cape. I feel

ready to do whatever it

takes to make a

difference to the lives of

Challengers’ young people

and their families

– Alex Hubbard, Office Manager Challengers

The colour orange will

always be special to

me. The young people

feel safe when they are

greeted by a sea of

orange, it’s amazing that

a colour can do that.

– Sophie Hansen-Reading,

Project Manager

Of course we are on hand to support you with organising this day! We can supply you with balloons, buckets and

banners to help you embrace the wonderful colour orange! Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if we can help you.

Orange Day embraces everything that Challengers is about - it’s us coming together to celebrate the importance of what we do and spreads joy throughout the team #EverythingIsOrange

- Laura Sercombe, Challengers CEO

Orange Day

Food is always a fundraising winner!

Bake sales are an excellent way to get the whole team involved. At Challengers we often run a ‘Bake Off’ competition that runs the length of the series. We have some baking inspiration for those that would like to get involved - just ask for us to send you our ‘Bake for Play’ pack, where we have recipes, cake toppers, and bunting.

Throughout the year the staff at Challengers also take part in events. This year our very own Trust Fundraiser, Marcus ran his ‘Street Snack’ stall to help with his fundraising. He raised an incredible £110 over a few short weeks. It is a really easy fundraising activity and we are sure would be popular with your fellow colleagues.

Bake For Play

In addition to baking and tuck shops we know of other businesses organising:

Baked Potato Days

Nacho Wednesdays

Bacon Butty breakfasts

We are really excited to have spaces in the Santa in the City event this year. Join thousands of Santas and take the streets of London this December for London’s iconic Santa in the City. You can run, jog or walk around the 5k course.

Starting on the north side of the Millennium Bridge, the route will take you over the Thames where you will see the glistening lights of the Shard and Tower Bridge. Next you will run past Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Borough Market towards the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. The final part of your journey ‘Home for Christmas’ will cross over Southwark Bridge towards the Christmas bells of St Pauls Cathedral to finish at St Peters Hill. An iconic route for an iconic event.

To cover the cost of the spaces, we are asking for a £10 registration fee and a £50 (or more!) fundraising ask per person to take part. Your Santa suit is included!

You will receive one-to-one support from a dedicated fundraiser!

Santa in the City

Head out and about with your team:Games Night – Challengers is all about play, what do you like to do in your free time? Board games, bingo, quizzes, murder mystery evenings, poker?

Bonfire Night – Why not hold a small bonfire night party? Entry tickets towards your fundraising!

Competitive Karaoke – show your colleagues what you’re made of!

Workshops – Could you offer your expertise to another business, or colleagues and charge for a speciality workshop?

Pick a theme!Halloween – Get spooky with fancy dress and pumpkin carving competitions!

Wellbeing – Host a Yoga or Meditation class at work and have staff donate to attend.

Car Wash - Grab a bucket and offer to wash your colleague’s cars, or other cars in your office block!

Sweepstakes – Always a favourite in our office!

Quick & Easy Fundraisers:Coffee donation – How much do you spend on coffee a day/week/over 40 days? Why not donate this cost instead!?

Jam Jar Challenge – place a jar or tin on each person’s desk to put their loose change in over 40 days. You’ll be surprised how much this adds up!

Guess … the name of the teddy/the weight of the cake/how many sweets in a jar, the possibilities are endless!

Fundraising Ideas

My daughter Eleanor, who is five-and-a-half, has been attending Challengers since she turned four (as soon as she was allowed to!) and she absolutely loves it. Eleanor has complex needs - she has severe learning disabilities and autism, and needs one-to-one care. She can’t communicate and needs help in everything that she does.

But this doesn’t stop her having fun, and she really has a fantastic time whenever she attends a Challengers play session. She gets really excited when we arrive and marches straight through the doors without a back-wards glance, and when we collect her at the end of the day she’s usually in a really good mood from all the fun she’s had.

Challengers means an enormous amount to our family - and many others like ours.We know that when Eleanor attends she’s having the best day that we or anyone else could possibly give her, in a safe environment where she will receive the care she needs.

That in turn allows us to relax and breathe - and focus on doing things that aren’t usually possible when we have Eleanor with us. This could be as simple as going shopping or out for a coffee - things that can often be very hard for the families of special needs children. In particular, it allows us to focus our attention on Eleanor’s little sister, and gives us all a bit of a break from the challenges of caring for Eleanor.

Now that we have found Challengers we couldn't live without it, and I hope that you will consider supporting such a much-needed and appreciated cause.

- Eleanor's mum

The Difference You Make

We cannot thank you enough for being one of our £40k in 40 days supporters. We hope that you can enjoy the

feeling that you are making an enormous difference to the lives of over 1400 disabled young people and their

families. Here are what one of our parents have to say:

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