Get together for young people this Christmas
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Get together this Christmas for young people with cancer. With your help, we can fund urgently needed specialist nurses and youth workers to provide vital support.
Don’t know where to start? Don’t worry - we have the inspiration and resources to support you every step of the way right here.
Stop cancer destroying teenage lives.
Get together to fundraise this Christmas and no matter if your event is large or small, you’ll help change the future for young people with cancer.
Right now, with healthcare services close to breaking point and diagnosis taking longer, we’re fearful for their future. With your help, we can fund urgently needed specialist nurses and youth workers to provide vital support.
You can help today. Set up your Just Giving fundraiser now.
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Start FundraisingTips and resources for any fundraising get together
Here are our top tips to get started and make your Christmas fundraiser a success.
- Plan ahead: Make a list of everything you need and be as detailed as you can. Download our easy event fundraising planner to help.
- Make it personal: Tell people why you want to support Teenage Cancer Trust and how every pound raised will make an impact, helping to fund urgently needed specialist nurses and youth workers to provide vital support to young people going through cancer.
- Boost your fundraising with quick, simple, and fun fundraising like sweepstakes, raffles, or collection tins. A pound here and a pound there adds up to success
- Invite people: Ask people to save the date and keep them updated. You can download our get together at Christmas Social Media Invite and Editable Poster.
- It’s about getting together and raising money. Make sure you have fun and enjoy getting together with others. Every pound raised will help fund our specialist nurses and youth workers.
Inspiration for you
Christmas Bake Sale
Baking is a great way to get together and share something delicious with others. It’s a chance for everyone to show their baking skills and creativity and every crumb of effort can make a difference.
Fundraising Christmas Fair
Games, making decorations and crafting, mulled wine and music, organising a Christmas or winter fair for your community, friends and at work – all of this and more can bring you together for young people with cancer.
Christmas Fair Fundraising Ideas
Silly Jumper Day
Make your own silly Christmas jumpers or hats. It’s a fun way to get together with work colleagues, friends and neighbours at Christmas and fundraise.
Happy Quizmas
Host a fun trivia challenge or an ultimate test of knowledge - every fundraiser can be boosted with a quiz. Make it a virtual challenge and get everyone together.
There are many more ways to get together. Crafting is a chance to get creative and thrifty, and Christmas provides crafting inspiration from wreaths, present wrapping, decorations, and baubles.
Crafting not for you? Consider hosting a Christmas film party or just making your Christmas Social a fundraiser this year - it can be as simple as that.
Still unsure? Check out our Inspiration Pages for more ideas.
I probably wouldn’t have gotten through it without Teenage Cancer Trust – Emma, my Youth Support Coordinator, was always there for me.
Inspired to sell cakes in school!
Delphine is one of our youngest fundraisers. She was just 9 when, with the support of her school and family, she decided to do something to help her older sister Odille, who had been diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Delphine says: “I was feeling sad at school and my headmistress encouraged me to do something to help her. I decided to do a cake sale because I like baking and I chose Teenage Cancer Trust because they have helped her to get better. Everyone loved the cakes and we raised £500.”
