Fundraising

All our fundraisers play an essential part in helping to deliver our ministry.  Without your help, we simply cannot take up all the opportunities available to us - your contribution really does make a difference.

You can choose to support one of the national projects, or allocate your funds to a local ministry.  For more information on this please visit our Allocations page

Our current national projects are:

• Urban Appeal
• Serve Your Local School Appeal
• Holiday Sponsorship Appeal
• Lendrick Muir Development Appeal

We have gathered together exciting resources, including testimonies of those who've paved the way to enthuse you.  We hope that their example will inspire you and demonstrate what can be done.  Can you go further?  Perhaps you can think of a new idea…

Getting Started

We'd love to hear from you when you start your planning - please email us and we'll help to publicise your event.

We also have a justgiving page where you can register your event and receive donations (please click on the logo to visit our JustGiving page).

For an introduction to fundraising with SU Scotland, please download the 'General Guidelines to Fundraising' booklet.

New Fundraising Pack

We're excited to launch our brand new Fundraising Pack in aid of the Lendrick Muir Development Appeal.

Host your own 'Come dine with me' event, get your youth doing wild and wacky challenges, hold an auction, run a marathon, organise a football tournament...

We've put together a whole bunch of resources and ideas that we hope will inspire individuals, churches and youth groups to fundraise on our behalf.

To order your free copy of our Fundraising Pack email anne.sutherland@suscotland.org.uk or call 01577 842018.

Facing the Rapids - Andy Malcolm

"In August I went white water rafting and helped to raise over £2,000 for the Holiday Sponsorship Appeal.

The event was arranged by Christian Men Together, avid supporters of the ministry that SU Scotland is doing, and over 45 people joined in.

It was definitely a fun and exciting way to raise some sponsorship money. The rafting started off on a calm section of the River Tay where the instructors soon found a number of interesting ways to get everyone out of the raft and into the water. Methods varied from walking around the outside of the raft using the paddles as supports, to attempting a 'wheelie', where at least one entire crew ended up in the water as their raft flipped over.

The white water part of the river was intimading - rapids look very different from the shore than they do when you're about to go down them - but exhilirating and so much fun.  A great day!"

Big Bike Challenge - Bill Chalmers

The Big Bike Challenge is an annual event where our supporters tackle 120+ miles of challenging terraine that links our two Activity Centres, Alltnacriche and Lendrick Muir.

After the cancellation of the 2010 Big Bike Challenge, one biker decided he would take up the challenge on his own, raising over £300 towards the development of our centres.

Bill Chalmers was part of the 2009 Big Bike Challenge, and this year he was looking forward to completing the trip once again.  With enthusiasm and commitment he continued with the challenge, setting off from Alltnacriche on Friday 20th August for the gruelling first stretch. He reached Lendrick Muir on Saturday, tired but satisfied, where he was welcomed by friends and family at the Big Celebration.

We are planning to have the Big Bike Challenge back again next year, details will be available on the website in 2011.