Fundraising at Work 
There are many ways you and your employees could fundraise for openingdoors. It's a good way to motivate your staff, good team building exercises and most importantly - lots of fun! Here are some of our idea's you could try:
Make us your Charity of the Year
By choosing to support openingdoors as your charity partner of the year, everyone in the company will be sure that everything they do is supporting homeless & vulnerable people within the North West, ensuring they receive a much better quality of life.
Payroll Giving
Get staff to donate a monthly fee. Your payroll department will deduct the fee automatically from your weekly/monthly salary, no extra costs and no hassle.
Talk don't type
Have a non email day and communicate by talking to your colleagues. Everyone pays a fee to take part and pays an extra fee if they break the rules!
Dress down day
Every Friday, staff pay a fee to wear their casual clothes or make it more fun by wearing fancy dress and have theme Fridays!
Skills auction Offer your skills and services to the highest bidder Sweepstakes Hold a sweepstake for the Grand National, Wimbledon, football matches or any other major event
Ugly tie competition
Get all the males in the office to wear the ugliest tie, everyone pays a fee to vote for the worst and the winner receives a prize
Run for Cash
Enter a running event receive sponsorship and donate to the charity. There are plenty of running events in the UK each year
Quiz Night
Organise a soap, film, pop and general knowledge quiz in the office and charge a fee to enter.
Bring and buy sale
Get everyone to sell their unwanted but good quality items to raise money. You can sell anything from books, jewellery, clothing, furniture.
Whether you organise one of the above events or simply make a one off donation, the charity thanks you for your support.
Don't forget to gift aid your donations.
5K FUN RUN 2007
CHARITY 3 MILE FUN RUN
Sorry,
but due to unforeseen circumstances a decision has been made to postpone the fun run in September. Can you please advise any family or friends that were interested of the postponement. We are looking to re arrange for early 2008.
Competition
DESIGN THE CHARITY A "T-SHIRT"
Have you got the flare, creativity and talent to design a fun,
colourful and attractive t-shirt for openingdoors? You don't
have to be an artist, its all about having fun and coming up
with a design that is different and stands out from the rest.
The t-shirt will be a plain white background and you will be designing the front and the back with anything you like. The judges will be looking for fun, colour and orginality.
The winner of the competition will be presented with some excellent prizes, publicity from the Warrington Guardian and your design printed on thousands of new tshirts to be sold and help raise funds for the charity.
Just think it could be your 'T-shirt' people are wearing! So get cracking on that design!
The closing date for the competition will be Friday 31st August 2007. Plenty of time to come up with a great design.
All designs to be either emailed to info@openingdoorsnorthwest.co.uk or post to our address on the contacts page.
All funds raised will help the charity to continue working with homeless and vulnerable people within the Northwest.
Good luck and have fun!
Can you Help!
Fundraising Volunteers
openingdoors is searching for volunteers to help with fundraising.
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Charity volunteering can be fun and a great way to make new friends. It can also help you learn new skills and gain valuable work experience.
Why not use your spare time, enthusiasm and talents to raise money and awareness for homeless and vulnerable people in the North West.
We urgently need people to help us set up fundraising events and campaigns.
If you’re interested in volunteering for our expanding charity please contact us for an application form.
You will be asked to complete an enhanced disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau.
Appealing to you!
So Much More Than Just a Room...
openingdoors helps approximately 47 people a day 365 days a year. Last year we accommodated approximately 200 young people in our hostels, 2,965 homeless people at our Night Shelter and provided advice and support to 292 people through our "Drop in" Centre.
Homeless people are not just given a bed for the night. The charity supports the service user with education and employment opportunities, training, interview skills, CV writing, life skills and healthy eating, home maintenance and budgeting.
We are appealing to you for help. Make a difference to the life of a homeless and vulnerable person.
PLEASE SUPPORT A HOMELESS PERSON AND DIG DEEP INTO YOUR POCKETS
By donating £3.48 (a small fraction of the cost) you will be helping
a homeless person, giving them “more than just a room.” Send
your donations to openingdoors (northwest) limited, The
Gateway, 89 Sankey Street, Warrington, WA1 1SR.
Don’t forget to submit a Gift Aid Form
Organise you own fundraising event for openingdoors!
Safe Steps
Do you take part in a dance class?
Or
Simple just love to dance!
A young person will walk approximately 2 miles before they decide to turn back and go home. We would like your help to raise money for our Charity so we can continue providing support for the homeless people of the North West. Take a look at our services page to see details of the services we offer.
All you have to do is:
• Find people to sponsor you
• Walk at least 2 miles in you next dance class
• Collect sponsor money and send it in to openingdoors.
If you tell us the date of your event we will send someone out to take photos on the day which will then with your consent be shown on our website.
For more information and to receive sponsor forms please contact us. We are waiting to help.