Why fundraise?
Our wonderful fundraisers help
- Fund our National Road Victim Service, supporting bereaved and injured families
- Fund our campaigns, researching and publicising road safety solutions
- Raise awareness of Brake and people who have died in road crashes, perhaps including someone you loved or knew
- Build our community of Brake supporters, among their friends, family or colleagues
Step 1: Decide your team
You might want to fundraise on your own, or you might want to do it in a team with friends, family or colleagues. Fundraising with other people can help raise more money, together, and be a lot of fun.
Step 2: Decide your goals
Set goals you plan to achieve.
- How much money are you going to raise?
- By when?
- How many people are you hoping will give funds?
- How many people are you hoping to reach with your messages?
Step 3: Decide what to do
Decide what to do, in order to meet your goals and have the most fun.
Sign up to a Brake fundraising event we organise for you. Go to our fundraising pages.
Alternately, do your own thing! You might
- take part in a local sporting event, or a challenge you invent
- hold a social event and charge for entry, raffle tickets, or things you auction or sell
- set up a Brake stall, somewhere there are a lot of people
You might do more than one thing, over a longer time frame, meeting your goals in stages.
You might do something that enables you to promote a safe streets message; for example a cycle ride on a new cycle path, or a road safety quiz.
Get in touch with our fundraising team to talk over your ideas; and see what others have done.
Step 4: Set team tasks
If you are a team, decide who does what. Think about who has the skills and resources to help in particular ways. For example,
- organising an event
- promoting what you are doing on social media
- setting up an online donations page
For help with these things and to get Brake T shirts and other Brake promotional tools, get in touch with our fundraising team.
Step 5: Celebrate what you did
Afterwards, thank everyone who has helped raise money and celebrate what you did, helping to raise even more awareness for the cause. For example, tell your local paper and email them a photo.