Christmas Fundraising Pack - Alzheimer's Research …...Christmas cake This is a light, spiced...

www.alzheimersresearchuk.org Email: [email protected] Phone: 0300 111 5555Charity numbers 1077089 & SC042474

It’s nearly that time of year again! Christmas gives us lots of opportunities to raise funds to defeat dementia.

ChristmasFundraising Pack

Advent Calendar ChallengeShare this challenge within the office. Get your colleagues involved with fundraising this Christmas. Assign a challenge from 1-24 to each colleague, or create your own team/department activity using the festive ideas.

www.alzheimersresearchuk.org Charity numbers 1077089 & SC042474


1. Duvet Day - Donate £5 - Write on a piece of paper why you deserve a duvet day after the Christmas Party. Send the anonymous excuses to the manager to pick the winner.

2. Find a local Santa Run and get colleagues to join you and get sponsored.

3. Feeling fit? Hold a plank challenge - Contact us for a pack.

4. Offer to make the tea for your team for a day and get everyone to donate .

5. Buy some chocolate oranges and split up the segments, put them in a jar. £1 to guess the number of segments. The winner gets the jar of yumminess!

6. Christmas Jumper Day - contact us for a pack .

7. Make some Christmas mince pies and get everyone to donate..

8. Make a Christmas cake and get people to guess the weight.

9. Magic Reindeer Food - Buy some small bags, add oats and glitter then tie with a brown tag - that says Magic Reindeer food. Offer the bag to your colleagues for a £2 donation.

10. Hold a Battle of the Brains quiz - Write your own questions or contact us for a pack, hold the quiz over lunch. Donate to enter.

11. Ask for a donation in return for wrapping Christmas presents.

12. Hold an Apprentice style challenge and see which team can raise the most money in a day.

13. Sell festive cakes, biscuits, cards or Christmas decorations.

14. Set up a memory tree - People donate to hang their favourite memory on the tree using a gift tag. Why not get your clients or customers involved too?

15. Organise a school dinner themed meal with some Christmas classics. Ask friends to make a donation for their food.

16. Marshmallow Challenge - Get a colleague to fill their mouth with marshmallows, donate to see if you can understand what that person is saying when they are shown a card with a word on it. The person with the most correct guesses wins a prize.

17. Favourite Christmas Song - Ask colleagues to donate £1 for their fave Christmas song to be played during the day.

18. Bring in a festive breakfast and people donate to eat it.

19. Baby photos - Collect baby photos at 50p a go and pin them on a board to guess who is who, most number of correct guesses wins.

20. Guess the weight of the Turkey - Buy a turkey and ask colleagues to guess the weight. Whoever’s guess is the closest wins the bird! .

21. Glitter beards or eyebrows for a day.

22. Festive fivers competition - This is such a simple idea but gives you a chance of winning some money to help with the Christmas shopping! Everyone puts their name in hat and donates £5 - then pick a winner. Half goes to the winner and half to ARUK.

22. Dartboard challenge - Plastic dartboard over lunch, who can get the highest score with 6 darts! As many turns as you wish from 12pm-2pm. Winner gets a prize – £1 to enter.

24. Rubix Cube Challenge - Who can master the cube? Donate to see if you can!

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Why your help is so important:

Suzie’s StoryChristmas; so many happy memories, but for me it’s also tinged with sadness. You see my father died and was buried on Christmas Eve and then many years later it was the date that my mum, then in the final stages of vascular dementia, went into a nursing home for the last few months of her life. I grieved as much on that day as when she actually died.

My mum was a talented needlewoman and in November each year, we would start to gather things to make Christmas decorations. In true Blue Peter style we’d spend hours wrapping coat-hangers in tinsel and attaching baubles to them to hang from the ceiling.

That’s what sparked off an idea I had for Christmas last year. I live in a small rural community and everyone has been so supportive of my fundraising activities that I wanted to give something back to them. I’d already used crochet, which forms a series of interlocking chains, as a way of explaining how dementia breaks the links between brain cells. So I decided that I would crochet snowflakes for everyone as a thank you gift to put in their Christmas card.

I also decorated a Christmas tree for Alzheimer’s Research UK. Decorating the tree was a very emotional time as people kept coming over to see what I was doing and then they’d give me a hug and tell me that Mum would be proud of me. It took hours to get mine looking just right as I wanted it to be perfect. There were about 25 trees in total, decorated by local groups and schools and visitors to the festival were asked to vote for their favourite.

Mum died eight years ago and ever since then I have asked people to make a donation to fund research into dementia either by making a donation to my latest fundraising page or direct to Alzheimer’s Research UK rather than spending money on a Christmas present for me.

Share your message of hope this Christmas

1 Print this page, back to back with the next

2 Cut out your Santa decoration

3 Write your message of hope on the back

4 Hang it on your tree using a little cotton

5 Share a photo on our Facebook or Twitter page using #SantaForgot or email [email protected]


ChristmasBattle of the Bakeswith Jo Wheatley, one of The Great British Bake Off Winners!

Challenge your colleagues toa Christmas battle of the bakes!

So whisk out your spatula and turn up the heat to raise that dough!


1 All contestants follow the Christmas Bundt recipe.

2 Select a day for the bakers to bring their cakes to work.

3 Place a number in front of each baker’s cake.

4 All bakers then have 5 minutes to decorate their Bundt in a Christmas theme.

5 After 5 minutes they leave the room.

6 Print the score cards and give them to each ‘judge’ in return for a £2 donation.

7 The Judging commences!

8 The person with the highest score wins Christmas Bundt Bake Off!

S E R V E S 1 0 – 1 2

Christmas cakeThis is a light, spiced sponge, with all the flavours of Christmas baked in a gorgeous Christmas-y Bundt tin and dusted with a shower of icing sugar snow.

METHOD:

1. Preheat the oven to 170oC/325°F/Gas Mark 3.

2. Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of a free-standing mixer or in a large bowl with a hand-held electric whisk until light and fluffy.

3. Gradually add the beaten eggs to the creamed butter, mixing well between each addition.

4. Add the maple syrup, mincemeat and cream and mix to combine.

5. Carefully fold in the flour, baking powder and spices using a large metal spoon.

6. Pour into the prepared tin, spread level and bake in the preheated oven on the middle shelf for 55–70 minutes or until golden and a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. If you notice the cake is browning too quickly, loosely cover with foil.

7. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then carefully turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

8. Dust with icing sugar to serve.

Happy baking ARUK supporters!

YOU NEED:250g unsalted butter,

softened

300g caster sugar

4x large eggs, beaten

3 tbsp maple syrup

150g mincemeat

100ml double cream

440g self-raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp grated nutmeg

icing sugar to dust

You will also need a 23cm Christmas Bundt

tin, well greased with cake-release spray or

flavourless vegetable oil.


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ChristmasBattle of the Bakeswith Jo Wheatley




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