Your Golden Guide G to Fundraising Success. Together we can make every moment count for sick kids

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1 You Golden Guide G to Fundaising Success Togethe we can make evey moment count fo sick kids 1

2 Thank you fo joiningg this yea's Gold Appeal G Gold Appeal is Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation s biggest fundaising campaign. It takes place thoughout May and June each yea and aises millions of dollas fo Sydney Childen s Hospital, Randwick. Thee ae heaps of ways to get involved, fom hosting a fundaise to taking on a pesonal challenge. The whole campaign culminates with ou annual Gold Telethon, an all-day boadcast of Hospital stoies, celebities and entetainment acts live on Channel Nine. You suppot will help us to ensue that childen have access to wold-class cae wheneve they need it. This means not only poviding the vey best teatment fo childen today, but also investing in goundbeaking eseach that will save and change moe lives in the futue. Moe than 69,000 seiously ill and injued childen ae caed fo at Sydney Childen s Hospital, Randwick each yea. The Hospital s billiant and dedicated staff delive expet medical cae to childen and families, while the bightest medical eseaches look fo answes and make new discoveies. But as ou population continues to gow, the demand fo ou Hospital s sevices will incease, and moe childen will need ou help. That s why you continued suppot is vital. We need to keep pace with advances in medical technology, and make sue we continue to attact the best and most billiant clinicians acoss all fields. We know thee is a challenge ahead, but togethe we can discove bette ways to diagnose, teat o pevent childhood diseases and injuies. You geneosity has an immeasuable impact on families acoss NSW and beyond, evey dolla aised puts us in a stonge position to help sick kids live thei healthiest lives. Thank you! Togethe we can help sick kids live thei healthiest lives Thanks to the amazing suppot of people like you. Ou Gold Appeal and Gold Telethon have aised moe than $30 million since the fist campaign nine yeas ago. This has enabled us to puchase vital life-saving medical equipment, suppot gound-beaking eseach and fund citical fontline sevices acoss all aeas of the Hospital. This yea, with the help of ou geneous community, we ae hoping to aise ove $6 million fo Sydney Childen s Hospital, Randwick, and help even moe sick kids. 1

3 Get off to a bight stat G You ve made an incedible fist step in deciding to aise vital funds fo Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation s Gold Appeal. Fom this point on, we ll be behind you evey step of the way. Whethe you need tips on how to oganise you fundaise o have any questions about the small pint, we want to ensue you have a wondeful expeience while fundaising to help sick kids. Hee s an oveview of how to get stated. 1. Get egisteed. NSW fundaising egulations state that any fundaising activity must be egisteed and appoved by us befoehand. Please complete and etun the application fom at o equest one via fundaising@schf.og.au o ove the phone on Get ou suppot A membe of ou team will contact you to discuss you event o challenge. If you e looking fo inspiation then bowse ou event ideas on the next page. 3. Get the go ahead Once you fundaising idea has been appoved, we will send you an Authoity to Fundaise. This states that you have ageed to ou fundaising tems and conditions and ae an appoved fundaise fo Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation. 4. Get going You ll find a ange of tips in this guide to help you stat planning and fundaising. Use the handy checklist and additional esouces we have ceated so you can enjoy you jouney and ensue it s a huge success. 2

4 Be Bold in Gold Host a fun mufti day at you school o wok with a gold coin donation fom students and colleagues (conside chaging highe fines fo those not in colou!) G Do something that dazzles G When it comes to picking you golden fundaise, find something that you love and add a bit of spakle! If you have a hobby o skill then hee s you chance tun it into a dazzling fundaising success. Some popula bight ideas fom ou othe golden fundaises include: V Gold Paty Day at Wok Set a gold-themed dess up day, decoate the office gold with a golden desk challenge o ask people to bing golden teats to sell. Collect donations fom those joining in and fines fom those who haven t. Dae to Dazzle See if you boss would be willing to undego a challenge fo the ight pice! Dae them to spay thei hai gold o wea a gold item o outfit all day. Gold Coin Snake Invite the kids in you class to bing in gold coins fom home. Collect all the coins togethe to make the longest snake you can make. Boost the funds you aise and add a touch of competition by getting moe classes involved. Silence is Golden How long can you go without saying anything? One minute, one hou o one day? Pledge to emain silent and get people to sponso you. If you e a chattebox, people will sponso silence. Go fo Gold Set up a fun obstacle couse o physical challenge event at school o wok with eveyone making a donation to ente to win the golden cup. To make it a family fiendly day you could even ceate a sepaate couse fo kids and adults. z w Stike Gold Get into teams and chase afte the clues aound town on a golden teasue hunt. The golden touch could be in you clues, in you costumes o in you pizes. All that Glittes is Gold Add some spakle to any event, by tuning it gold. Fom dinne paties to tivia nights, you event will be sue to dazzle. Golden Oldie Host a kaaoke night, whee you and you fiends can belt out a few hits fom yesteyea. Chage you mates fo the pivilege. Gold Rush Make a list of 20 golden o spakling things aound town. Ask paticipants to pay an enty fee then put them in teams, challenging them to etun to base with a pictue of each thing on the list! Ask local businesses fo pizes to encouage competition. Gold sta fundaise at school Hold a fun event at you school to help us aise funds fo sick kids. Thee s loads of geat ideas to holding a successful fundaise at you school whethe it s a mufti-day with a touch of gold, a gold-themed dess up day, best dessed gold classoom, walk-a-thon o othe type of a-thon, fete o a golden idea of you own. 3

5 Do something that dazzles G Gold-a-thon Ceate a solid gold Dance-a-thon, Song-a-thon o Walk-a-thon to help aise funds. Paticipants ae sponsoed fo the numbe of units of you chosen a-thon. Dess in gold and keep dancing. Invite people to donate and guess how long you ll last. The moe, the meie! Gold Face Painting If thee s a local fete, steet paty of maket nea you then offe you face painting sevices. Most events will be happy to have you and it s a geat way to engage the community. Failing that, you could even ask a local venue if they have a themed night you could do face painting fo. The Gold Teatment Thee s no need to beak a sweat with this fundaise. Have you fiends and family ove fo a day of pampeing, give facials o manicues in exchange fo a donation you guests will feel geat inside and out. R Golden Theads Fo one day only let you students o kids pick you a gold outfit and wea it with pide! Gold At and Cafts What s you caft? Fom painting and dawing, to knitting and ceating as long as it s gold and can be sold. If you know someone who is paticulaly cafty then ask them to un a wokshop so othes can pay to lean a new skill. I Join Team Kids! Thee ae a numbe of Team Kids challenges taking place duing ou Gold Appeal, including Sydney Moning Heald Half Maathon and Pedal 4 Kids. Goals fo Gold Get you local spoting club involved by aising funds though bucket collections at matches, setting up a affle with suppot fom local businesses, sponsoing teams fo the numbe of goals they scoe, holding a BBQ o cake stall o end of season paty. Find out moe at 4

6 What you money could dog $50 $200 $750 $1,500 $7,000 $12,500 $25,000 $50,000 $137,000 could help povide a child life theapy session fo one child o a small goup. could povide mateials fo a pop-up at wokshop in the Hospital. could buy an oxygen monito fo babies and childen in Intensive Cae. could fund one genetic testing kit fo childen with a ae disease who ae despeately seeking a diagnosis. could fund a humidifie to delive cucial oxygen theapy to newbons and childen with beathing poblems. could fund a defibillato to save a life in an emegency situation. could fund a state gant to suppot an innovative pilot study into childhood diseases to help impove o save lives. could help fund a clinical oom in a majo new building to help staff delive the best medical cae. could fund a Fellowship. This cucial taining helps to build the next geneation of leading paediaticians. 5

7 Top tips G Get othes involved! Woking as a team can have a huge impact on you success. Ask you fiends, family and colleagues to help you in the planning and pepaation of you gold event, making the best use of what each individual can bing to you oganising team o committee. Gold Appeal Visit The Gold Appeal Mobile will take to the towns aound NSW to aise vital funds, pomote childen s health and ceate special moments to help sick kids live thei healthiest lives. If you e setting up a Gold Appeal fundaise, let us know by calling the Community team on o fundaising@schf.og.au and we ll see if the Gold Appeal Mobile can stop off in you town! Fundaise Online You online fundaising page can become you most poweful fundaising tool. Visit and select Ceate you Own. It s easy to set up and won t cost you a thing. It will help you collect money fom you suppotes online educing the time you spend following up and banking cash donations. Plus you suppotes can also leave motivational messages and they will automatically eceive a eceipt. Use you page to upload you own images and tell you own stoy. This is a wondeful way to inspie you suppotes and shae you jouney, plus they can help by shaing you page on social media. Visit goldappeal.og.au In the un up to my event I was eally busy taining in the evenings and weekends. Fotunately I had people aound me who could help with fundaising and event logistics which made a huge diffeence. I d ecommend getting people on-boad ealy as it builds a bit of a suppot netwok. Fiends, family and even stanges wanted to help me pomote myself, give mechandise to use as pizes, aange collections, suppot my event planning all making an impact on the money I aised. In 2017, Ben Webste swam, ode and an 360km non stop fom Bondi to Yass in his Shaks to Sheep fundaise.

8 Make some noise G Speading you fundaising message fa and wide will boost you donations and help you gain eal momentum. Hee s a few ways to help you make a noise! Fo moe infomation fundaising@schf.og.au Get Social Keep you netwok in the loop with egula posts, tweets, taining updates and milestones. Ask you fiends and family to shae you page to help you each as many people as possible. Make the news Contact you local newspape to spead the wod in you community. We can send you a media elease template to help you each out. Be seen and head If you need postes to pomote you fundaise befoehand, o mateials to captue attention on the day, we have a host of exta esouces available. Just let us know what you need! - Postes - Stickes - Balloons - Thank you cetificates - Collection tins o buckets - Banded unning and cycling tops - Patient stoies to inspie you fiends and family to suppot you - Facts about Sydney Childen s Hospital, Randwick. Spead the wod Stat off by ing you contacts with a link to you fundaising page. If you wok place o a local business would like to suppot you event, we can supply you with exta postes o othe mateial. Just let us know. Need moe help? We ae hee to help you with any guidance and suppot you need. Please don t hesitate to contact us on o fundaising@schf.og.au Join us! We d love you to join ou social netwoks. Please tag us in you updates so we can keep in touch. #goldappeal #goldtelethon #goldmoments 7

9 Step by Step Checklist G 1. Get egisteed and etun you papewok... This will ensue you have you Authoity to Fundaise and we can povide you with fundaising mateials fo you event. 2. Set up you online fundaising page... See tips within this guide on the easiest and most effective way to aise funds. 3. Choose you gold activity... If you need some inspiation you can find a ange of ideas in this guide. O sign up fo a challenge at 4. Setting the time & place... Whee and when will you event take place? You ll be supised by how suppotive local venues can be so don t be afaid to ask fo a fee o heavily discounted deal. 8. Lean about the fine pint... Please make sue you eview the egulations and legal equiements that might apply to you event. 9. Say thank you... Saying thank you and shaing the success of you event with you suppotes is a geat way to finish off you fundaising! 10. Collect outstanding donations... Afte the event it s time to cash in pledged donations. It s also a good oppotunity to send out that final ask fo suppot. 11. Deposit funds... Please deposit all funds within 30 days of you event. If thee is any eason you can t bank the full amount within 30 days, please let us know. 5. Hatch a plan... Make a list of ealistic goals and a timeline at the beginning. This will help things un smoothly and allow time to get othes involved. 6. Pomote you event... Once you have egisteed you will eceive some additional mateials to help you pomote you event. 7. Boost you fundaising... Raffles, auctions, quizzes and collections ae geat ways to give you fundaising a boost. Ask us fo moe infomation. Online o in the bank: Whethe you tansfe money though you online banking o in the bank itself, please use the details below. Bank: Commonwealth Bank of Austalia Account Name: Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation BSB: Account: Refeence: You Authoity to Fundaise numbe Send us a cheque: Please make any cheques payable to Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation Pty Ltd. Post them to us at The Community Fundaising Team, Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation, Locked Bag 2005, Randwick NSW

10 The Fine pint G Authoity To Fundaise Befoe you stat, you must egiste fo you Authoity To Fundaise. Please visit to complete you application. Tems & Conditions Depending on the type of event you ae unning and the ways you will aise funds, additional Tems & Conditions may apply. Please ask the team if this applies to you. Insuance and pemits Appopiate local council pemits like fo public space use o food handling ae a fundaise s esponsibility to obtain. You may also equie Public Liability Insuance as the Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation s insuance does not cove this. G Logo use & banding Once we have confimed you Authoity to Fundaise, we will supply you with a Poudly suppoting the Foundation s logo and guidelines on how to use it. Please do not use any othe Sydney Childen s Hospital, Randwick o Foundation logos. Investing money in you event If you need to spend money to aise funds then be sue you set and tack you budget fom the beginning. Costs cannot exceed 50% of the money you aise. You need to keep tack of expenses as well as the funds you have aised. It s a good idea to include goods and sevices that have also been donated to you. Ask ou Community Fundaising team fo a template budget speadsheet. FAQs G 1. Do I need pemission to fundaise? Yes. Legally anyone collecting funds on ou behalf must be egisteed and have an Authoity to Fundaise (ATF). Please fundaising@schf.og.au to get stated. 2. Ae thee any fundaising ules I need to know about? Thee ae ules fo fundaises to potect you, you donos, and Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation. Take a look at The Fine Pint above and let us know if you ae unsue about anything. It is impotant that you keep any expenses low and ensue they do not exceed 50% of you total fundaising. 3. What logos and banding can I use? Once you have egisteed with us, we will send you ou logo and logo guidelines. If you haven t yet eceived this please fundaising@schf.og.au 4. What does the money go towads? All funds donated ae used to suppot the Sydney Childen s Hospital Randwick most ugent needs to delive the best possible clinical cae and goundbeaking eseach. Some inspiing examples can be found within this guide. 5. Will we be coveed unde the Foundation s public liability insuance? Unfotunately, no. As a fundaise you ae esponsible fo obtaining any necessay insuance, pemits o licenses. This may include local govenment pemission if you ae oganising an event in a public space. 6. Can Sydney Childen s Hospital Foundation attend my event o povide a guest speake? Ou busy clinicians and nuses ae hugely appeciative of any fundaising effots and can occasionally make themselves available. Patient cae must always come fist and we ae mindful of thei limited availability, but if you feel you event would benefit fom a guest speake then please fundaising@schf.og.au 7. How do I deposit the funds I have aised? See the checklist within this guide fo infomation on how and when to deposit you funds. 9

11 Thank you fo you effots and suppot! Contact Us! We e hee to suppot you evey step of the way so if you have any questions please get in touch. Remembe to watch Gold Telethon on Monday 11 June on Channel 9. Call: fundaising@schf.og.au Go online: