Craft Against Cancer for the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign
This is a call for all crafters to participate in a Craft Against Cancer Challenge.
*** Donate or help us fundraise and we will tell the world about your efforts on our Raffles and Fundraisers page with a photo and link back to your blog or website.***
The cure rate for childhood cancers is 75%. Wouldn’t it be brilliant if it was 100%?
The Royal Marsden plans to challenge this and Extremely Crafty wants to help.
The Royal Marsden is one of the few hospitals in the world where, in partnership with The Institute of Cancer Research, new drug therapies for childhood cancers are developed and trialed.
Breakthroughs in childhood cancer will help all children around the world.
The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign has a £15million fundraising target. Extremely Crafty would like to help them achieve this by calling all crafters around the globe to join together to help donate, fundraise, and spread the word.
The Royal Marsden plans to build Europe's leading Children's and Teenage Cancer Centre at The Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton. They're going to do everything they can to help children with cancer become children without cancer. And they need your help to do it.
The new Centre will double inpatient and day patient capacity, allowing them to treat more children and teenagers with cancer in an environment more suited to their needs and tastes.
It will also host dedicated drug development beds for children and teenagers, where they can test new anti-cancer agents on site for the first time anywhere in the world.
Crafters Unite Against Cancer - How You Can Help
Donate
You could:
Whatever you plan to do, you can rest assured that any amount you raise will go the very best use and really will help to save lives.
Fundraise
Help fundraise by organizing your own amazing Extremely Crafty Craft Against Cancer event. You could:
Spread the Word
Help spread the word by using the power of the internet. Blog about the Extremely Crafty Craft Against Cancer, link to it, email your friends, and add the button to your site.
Don’t forget to tell the press about it. If you would like to gain publicity for your event, use these downloadable documents to help get you started.
Go to the Extremely Crafty site and click on the Donate button. We’ve set up a page with www.justgiving.com, so you can rest assured it’s a secure site. Just Giving has already helped over 76,000 member charities raise £450 million in over ten years.
Please help us fundraise from now until the end of September 2009.
Extremely Crafty would love to tell the world about your efforts and how much you’ve helped raise. We have created a “Fundraisers” webpage where we list all known Extremely Crafty Craft Against Cancer events with a short description, photo, and a link to you.
1. For every £5 donation via the Extremely Crafty Just Giving page, you will receive 1 e-raffle ticket. (For a £10 donation you get 2 chances to win, £15=3 chances to win, etc.) Be sure to send me a message via the donation page that states your name, email, amount and “Raffle”.
2. The first prize will be raffled off once a reserve limit of £150 has been reached. Each subsequent item will be raffled off once subsequent new donations reach an additional £100 of donations.
3. Once you donate, your e-raffle tickets will be considered for each raffle until the end of September 2009, even if you have already won an item. (So get in there early for the best chance to win!)
4. You can donate more and increase your chances (i.e. buy more e-raffle tickets) at any time.
5. Everyone who donates a raffle prize will have their item listed on the fundraisers wall with a link to their blog or etsy shop. (Great way to advertise your shop, while giving to charity!!!) I will also blog about your site/shop and link to you.
6. If you would like to donate a prize, please email me at michele[AT]extremelycrafty.co.uk (replace [AT] with @) and send a photo.
7. All prize donors will be responsible for:a. Shipping the prizes directly to the winner, and
b. Paying postage and packaging to ship the prize to the winner.8. A computer generated program will pick winners at random.
9. Extremely Crafty and Michele Young will be held harmless for any item not received by a prize winner or damaged prizes.
10. Extremely Crafty reserves the right to change the terms of this raffle at any time.
BONUS Coming up – we are also working on creating a special DONORS ONLY page which will include free pdf templates and downloads for all donors to access.
All proceeds go directly to the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign.
Please donate generously. Thank you very much!
Wouldn’t it be cool if together crafters around the world could unite and craft against cancer?
Spread the word, my Extremely Crafty Chums, spread the word.
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© 2009 Michele Young
