JustGiving Pages

To set up your personal fundraising page for No More Landmines, visit www.justgiving.com/landmines/raisemoney click the ‘create your page’ button and follow the instructions.

1. Give your message meaning
The best fundraising pages tell a really good story. Let people know why you’re going to the trouble of raising money – why you chose the event you are doing or the reason why you are participating for No More Landmines, and they’re much more likely to take the time to donate. One third of landmine vitims are children yet it only costs £1 to clear 1 square metre of mine affected land and as little as £30 would buy a prosthetic limb that would allow a child to walk again so each donation could make a real difference.

2. Keep it Personal!
A photo of you makes your page much more engaging. Even better — add your own Flickr photos and YouTube video. If you don’t want a picture of yourself you can add a picture of a landmine, a minefield or a landmine survivor just e-mail the team at events@landmines.org.uk or choose from one of the pictures at the bottom of this page. You have lots of scope to be funny, imaginative and compelling and give your supporters a good reason to send your page on to their friends.

• Before you email your entire address book, ask your closest friends and family to donate first. An empty page can be a bit intimidating, so having a couple of donations on the page should encourage other sponsors. People tend to match the amounts already listed on the page, so if they’re generous ones, all the better!
• Email your other contacts in groups — colleagues, running club, friends overseas, etc - personalising your message as appropriate for each group.
• Use your email system to set up groups, send emails to large numbers of people and keep your communications personal. Potential supporters are more likely to open an email that comes from you than an email address they don’t recognise.
• Send regular updates! (see point 7)

4. Publicise your page

5. Put a link in your email signature
Add your page’s web address, or a 'sponsor me' badges, to your email signature. That way, every email you send raises awareness of your fundraising and attracts more donations.
 
6. Keep your page up-to-date
Post regular updates on your progress and upload new photos. It gives people a reason to come back to your page and encourages them to donate again or to send your page on to their friends.

7. Send follow-up emails
Be persistent. It takes more than one round of emails to reach your target. You know what it's like - people mean to donate, but sometimes they don't quite get round to it on the first request. Remember to thank the people who’ve already supported you, and to ask them to send your page to their contacts. Send regular updates and make it as entertaining as possible! Tell people about your training regime, what you have had to give up, injuries you might have suffered. Don’t forget to e-mail after the event to say that you completed it and how the day was as both a thank you to those have sponsored you and a reminder to those who haven’t.

8. Personalise your thank-you
You can edit the thank-you email that JustGiving automatically send to your donors by going to your account and clicking on ‘Do some basic page editing’. Make sure you encourage people to send your page on to friends who might be interested in sponsoring you.

9. Contact your local media
A few lines in the local paper or an appeal on your local radio station can really help. If you would like help with a press release just contact the team on events@landmines.org.uk.

• Attachments:

• Cambodia_Family_near_deminers_web.jpg
• Claymore_web.jpg
• Cluster_bomb_web.JPG
• Deminer_web.JPG
• Female_Deminer_web.jpg
• Schoolyard_with_landmines_web.JPG
• Children_in_mine_community_web.jpg
• Landmine_Survivor.jpg
• Minefield_by_school_web.JPG
• Deminer_at_work_web.jpg
• Cluster_Bomblet_web.jpg